Japanese Word of the Day
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Episodes from my life as a salary man in Japan. Each post is summarized by a Japanese word around 2-kyu level.
tags: japanese, nihongo, japan


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Eavesdropping – nusumigiki – 盗み聞き
Posted on 13/11/2009
Can’t believe almost a year passed since my last post! I keep overhearing phone conversations at work about juicy topics, but sometimes my eavesdropping is thwarted by limited...
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Shimatta しまった – I messed up
Posted on 18/01/2009
I was on the Shinkansen a few weeks ago coming back from Tokyo Haneda airport and in my boredom I was leafing through the free shopping magazine they have in the back of all the...
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Na な – yeah
Posted on 22/12/2008
Last night there was a funny TV show on about this young couple who had 10 kids. They were both divorcees and brought several sprogs with them from previous marriages and then also made...
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Konran 混乱 – mix-up
Posted on 16/12/2008
I have never seen the same delivery guy twice in the 3 years I have been here, however by some bizarre co-incidence the same delivery guy came back again last night so I got to explain to...
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Okurimono 贈り物 – a gift
Posted on 15/12/2008
Last night I had an encounter with the delivery guy. He was dropping off something from Amazon and after I signed for it he asked me if I spoke Japanese and then proceeded to give me a bit...
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Jyouchou 冗長 – Redundancy
Posted on 05/12/2008
The way the global economy is going, it makes me wonder how long it will be before some of our cleaner army are culled into redundancy. Continue reading →
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Kanjou 感情 – emotion
Posted on 29/11/2008
Yesterday I came across a really amazing art/conceptual website called We Feel Fine that automatically collects emotions expressed on the web in blog posts and presents them in a really...
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Shaze 社是 – Company Rules
Posted on 21/11/2008
Like most traditional Japanese companies, we begin each morning by doing light exercises. After that, on a rotation basis someone goes to the front of the room and reads out the SHAZE...
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Goumon 拷問 – Torture
Posted on 16/11/2008
Today I had to go and renew my driving licence for another three years. Who would have thought such a simple thing would lead to today’s word being Torture? Read on…...
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Kentou 検討する – to consider it
Posted on 14/11/2008
When I first started working at this company I didn’t get off to a good start with the Systems department for various reasons. They were very cautious and would always give me...
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