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Tsugu: pouring, joining, continuing
Last night we had dinner at Raku Toridokoro, a yakitori place here in Las Vegas which we return to often.
Dec 30, 2025
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Remembrances of Learning Japanese
This publication called “Nihongoism” is a bit dry and academic, isn’t it.
Dec 15, 2025
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The Concept of Freedom in East and West, Then and Now
How does the concept of freedom differ between East and West?
Nov 16, 2025
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You say "kisu", I say "kissu"
Why are there two different ways to say "kiss" in Japanese?
Oct 12, 2025
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For Japanese, consciousness is the "sense of thought"
In my last post, Thoughts are Echoes of the Mind, I analyzed the character 意 (i), meaning thought or idea, parsing its shape as the sound of the mind…
Sep 7, 2025
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How I studied Japanese in 1976
Mar 3, 2025
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Why does 約 (yaku) mean "about"?
Mar 24, 2025
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"O for Owari": How "Tail" Came to Mean "The End"
May 14, 2025
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What does "Nori" mean in a person's name?
Dec 17, 2023
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All The World's A Stage in Japanese
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Language Learning in the AI Era, Part III
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Jul 27, 2025
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Piling up intentions with "tsumori"
The word tsumori, almost always just written in kana as つもり, means “I expect”.
Jul 17, 2025
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In Japanese, "o" is for "outside" or "away"
In Japanese, lots of words with an “o” sound in them are related to the notion of outside or away.
Jun 29, 2025
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