Daniel Morales
@howtojapanese.com
Translator, writer. How to get used to Japanese (Additional topics: Murakami, New Orleans, Chicago, beer, writing, translation, basketball). Based in Osaka. http://linktree.com/howtojapanese
The next NHK morning drama Blossom is a literary one, based on the life of Uno Chiyo. In asadora style, the character goes by a different name: Hano Tama. And it seems Akutagawa Ryunosuke is also in the story, as "Akiyama Kakunosuke." www.nhk.jp/g/ts/R769G71...
【新キャスト】珠に影響を与える作家たち／ブラッサム - 「ブラッサム」さまざまなトピックス - ブラッサム - NHK
主人公・葉野珠に影響を与える作家たちを演じるみなさんが決まりましたので、お知らせいたします。
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Who are the foreigners buying up all those Tokyo tower condos? Until recently, it was largely Chinese; but now the foreign buyers are far more likely to be residents of Taiwan (62% vs. 10% Chinese). A likely reason is as a hedge against a Chinese takeover of Taiwan. news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/7df...
「1位は中国ではなかった」東京の新築マンション、国外購入者の6割超を占めた“意外な地域”（集英社オンライン） - Yahoo!ニュース
では、どの国・地域からの購入が多いのでしょうか。国土交通省の調査によると、2025年1~6月に東京23区で新築マンションを取得した国外住所の購入者（海外在住の外国人）のうち62％を台湾が占めています
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In the August newsletter, I looked back at one of my favorite Japan Times articles about incomplete sentences in Japanese. Did you know that native speakers use incomplete sentences between 25-50% of the time when speaking! newsletter.howtojapanese.com/fukanzen/
不完全
Incomplete sentences can actually make you sound more native in Japanese. Here are some ways you can be less complete (and thus more fluent!) in Japanese.
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Happy release day to Metal Gear Solid Master Collection 2. Excited to get my copy. And thank you to whoever added me to the MobyGames credits for Peace Walker. The real stars were John Byington and Marc Laidlaw who did the outsource translation for us at Intac.
This was always going to be the next step. There are no trans players in the WNBA so instead they're going after cis women who are insufficiently feminine for them.
Heartland Signal@heartlandsignal.com · 6d agoU.S. Rep. Marlin Stutzman (R-IN) claims the WNBA is "trying not to offend some of their players who ... [are] trying to live a male lifestyle": "They protect the lesbian structure that's inside the WNBA with a male quote-unquote female relationship that are two women."
Dang 😭
@mulboyne.bsky.social · last wk.Tokyo Shimbun reports confirmation of new Immigration Agency fees from October. Status change & renewals (previously 6,000 yen) will start at 10,000 yen for 3 months, up to 75,000 yen for 5 years. Permanent residency will be 200,000 yen. www.tokyo-np.co.jp/article/510617
Not sure what's worse, the English on the JLPT site or their inability to handle traffic on the day applications open.
I don’t think Americans will ever give up their full sized ovens, but I do wonder what they would think if they knew how versatile a good Japanese microwave oven is. You could really save a lot of kitchen space.
Here’s some pix from Akiko Higashimura’s panel at Anime NYC on Friday + the sketches she drew on stage
Looks like Kanto had some shakes last night. Hope everyone got some sleep.
I’ve been drinking cheap coffee after lunch these days so I asked Reddit for recommendations. www.reddit.com/r/japanlife/...
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Share a cover better than the original. Yoshida Takuro’s Yujiro cover. youtu.be/oYg391glq4A?...
夜霧よ今夜もありがとう
YouTube video by TAKURO YOSHIDA - Topic
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Toscha@poemless.bsky.social · last wk.Name a cover better than the original.
German manga translators have been making the same call with an open letter: The current rates need to be doubled at least for us to survive doing our job.
Anime News Network@animenewsnetwork.com · 2w agoAward-Winning Translator, Jan Mitsuko Cash, Calls on American Manga Industry to Double Their Rates!
I’ve had tinnitus off and on since around 2009. I think it might be related to over exertion while running back then but I’m not sure. Similarly looked into it without much headway. It comes and goes but I’ve mostly gotten used to it. Not much help unfortunately. I do think good sleep helps the most
Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 2w agoI got tinnitus last year in April that started suddenly and hasn't left. My ability to focus has been shot because I cannot take my ADHD meds, drink coffee, or have anything with caffeine without making the tinnitus substantially worse. It's destroyed my concentration and I'm at my wits end.
Back to the post-Obon grind. Japan really gets quiet during the holiday. It was nice.
4.5 months into the new cycling laws. Still mostly no changes here in Osaka. Maybe a higher percentage of folks in full rain suits without umbrellas, but people still break out the umbrellas. I guess there are fewer obaasan with their parasols out. That's been the biggest impact.
Daniel Morales@howtojapanese.com · 2mo ago3.5 months into the new cycling laws, and today for the first time I felt like people in my Osaka neighborhood were riding on the street more consistently. Although I don't think their behavior has changed much, to be honest. Still haven't seen any tickets given out, knock on wood.
59 years ago today, August 15, 1967, Chicago's Picasso Statue was unveiled. I was there, as an embryo, capturing it on film, using the family 8mm Kodak: Richard J and Sis Daley, Seiji Ozawa and the CSO, Andy Frain ushers.
The term "Woke 1.0" (whether sympathetic or not) is its own micro aggression conceding to the idea that black social justice concepts appeared ab nihilo in 2014/15-2024 rather than being part of a centuries long tradition of critical theorising, data gathering and practice.
Poll results vs. how poll results are presented in the Wall Street Journal.
Next week! There's still time to sign up and tell grad students about it! ✌️
Dr. Paula R. Curtis@paularcurtis.bsky.social · 2mo agoHappy to share the AAS Diversity & Equity Committee is sponsoring an @asianstudies.org Digital Dialogues session 8/19 "Academic Job Market 101: Becoming Familiar & Planning Ahead"! I'll introduce fundamentals & what to expect when you're expecting (to graduate)! www.asianstudies.org/jobs-profess...
Looks like we have a miraculous sub-30C August day here in Osaka thanks to this typhoon.
Spoken like an asshole who's never had to ask for time off work to visit a doctor, forget ever taking a kid to the doctor. Also, that's now 5 copays instead of one. And 5 days of missed work. Over a bullshit myth started by a guy who wanted to sell his own vaccine, that's been repeatedly debunked.🙄🤬
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w agoTrump: "At one year, you should have 5 separate visits for vaccines rather than getting them all in the same day. I've seen proof of where they have a vaccination thing that looks like the size of a bottle of soda and pour it into a little child's body."
Again, it is an *exceptionally* strange situation where the president of the US gets to literally invent preposterous things out of thin air every day and no one can do anything about it
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w agoTrump: "At one year, you should have 5 separate visits for vaccines rather than getting them all in the same day. I've seen proof of where they have a vaccination thing that looks like the size of a bottle of soda and pour it into a little child's body."
posted this six years ago on twitter and it went viral but here’s daryl dawkins on don nelson in his memoir
The 1,000-yen lunch set is undefeated in Osaka. Does it still exist in Tokyo? Got the kinoko bacon risotto today.
🎮 EN/JP Job alert: Automaton West is looking for a EN/JP bilingual full-time editorial staff who can work in Osaka (or someone who can relocate to work in Osaka). automaton-media.com/en/announcem...
AUTOMATON WEST is looking for full-time editorial staff (Japanese fluency and ability to relocate required) - AUTOMATON WEST
We are currently accepting applications for the position of full-time editor for the video game news site AUTOMATON WEST.
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Epic Mexican-Japanese solidarity has been happening for a long, long time beyond just, I dunno, the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles?
Footnotes in History@footnotesinhistory.bsky.social · 4w ago#OTD in 1944, Ralph Lazo, a Mexican American who claimed to be Japanese, was released from the Manzanar incarceration camp. Lazo, who enlisted into the Army, wanted to join his friends in the camp and stayed for two years. "Who can say I haven't got Japanese blood in me?," he stated. 🗃 #skystorians
