Nihongo Notes

Japan Blog Matsuri - October

This months Blog Matsuri has come to an end. Thanks to everyone who submitted an article!

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Sumo, nappy-wearing cry-babies

I was going to write about Sumo for the topic of “Sport in Japan”, but this is much more fun to write about… “What did he just say?! Nappy-wearing cry-babies?!” Yeah, that’s right, sumo is full of nappy-wearing cry-babies! No, no, I don’t mean proper sumo, those guys would crush me in an instant. I mean “Baby-cry [...]

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JPopJapan.com Relaunches!

I quickly realised that building a database of artists on my own was too much work! So after speaking with Nick over at JapanSoc.com I decided to relaunch JPopJapan.com as a social bookmarking site. It’ll cover any genre of Japanese music from the high-pitch JPop girl groups to the screaming JMetal bands and everything in [...]

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Sport in Japan - A Japan Blog Matsuri

After returning from Japan 2 weeks ago I've not yet found the time to write an article and I was a little stuck for ideas. I also missed the second Japan Blog Matsuri! Luckily there was a gap in the Japan Blog Matsuri schedule so I decided to step up and host it this month. This month's topic is "Sport in Japan".

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