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Cute and Japanese

‘Kawaii’ means ‘cute’ in Japanese, and Tokyo Kawaii, etc. certainly looks cute.

There’s more to it that that though. Kirin explains many aspects of Japanese culture and customs in her lively and conversational style. She also made a page with tips for learning Japanese.

She lives just outside Tokyo but is just back from a trip to enjoy the onsen springs in West Japan. Go and read all about it!


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  • Happy Lucy

    Lucy, I would like to improve my English is the full name of this blog by Lucy from Kawasaki in Japan. She writes to practise English and to explain Japanese culture.

    Today she explains about the Hinamatsuri doll festival, also called Girls’ day, held on 3rd March. There are also plenty of stories about her two young sons.

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  • What Japan thinks

    Life in Japan interpreted through statistics! ‘Seron’ (Ken Yasumoto-Nicolson) finds surveys and opinion polls of Japanese people and interprets them in this blog, explaining the results in everyday language and sometimes even a pie chart.

    The diverse collection of subjects ranges from the frivolous - vending machine items the Japanese would like to buy, to the more functional - how many people know what processor their computer runs on.

    You can read a Japan Times interview with the Scottish - Japanese author of the blog here.

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