Mar16
Rice in Japan: You Are What You Eat
You are what you eat: Can a country as modern as Japan cling onto a culture as ancient as rice? IN EARLY autumn a pilgrimage of sorts takes place in Japan. People ride the bullet train from Tokyo, pass through a long tunnel in the mountains west of the capital and emerge in Niigata, one [...]
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The Most Annoying Japanese Word
Several weeks ago a poll from the Marist Institute of Public Opinion — one that was slingshot quickly across the Internet — listed “whatever” as the most annoying of all English words. Like, you know, it outpolled a whole glossary of other irksome conversational nuts and bolts, such as “like,” “you know,” and “anyway.” The [...]
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