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In my opinion, Chipotle as a company does so many things right. I know the sodium content of their burritos is horrendously unhealthy (near 100% of the DV, so those with hypertension shouldn't eat them often), but they have an INTERACTIVE nutritional information page on their site at ChipotleFan.com that allows you to choose which ingredients you have put in your burrito of choice, and it

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I translated this image posted to Flickr. Here's the translated image (I got kind of lazy at the end, and didn't label two steps on the right half. There is a 3-frame "how to," and the first frame's blue text says "affix it" and the second says (I think...but one character is illegible to me) to tear away the water seal strongly. Via Digg.

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After seeing someone mistakenly claim that their Digg name was Japanese for something-or-other, and being absolutely incorrect (as in: using words that don't exist in Japanese and poor grammar beyond that), I figured I'd do a service to the Digg community and extend an offer: over the next week or so, comment here or on the Digg story I am about to post, and I'll translate any nick you designate

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What American accent do you have? Your Result: The Midland "You have a Midland accent" is just another way of saying "you don't have an accent." You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of those big southern cities like Atlanta or Dallas. You have a

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A scan of a German Swiss newspaper article (from the Tages-Anzeiger) has appeared on Leo Laporte's site, and since I'm basically not using this blog for anything, it seems, but Japanese translation nowadays, I figured I'd translate the German article and post it here and give Leo the link. Perhaps some will find it helpful. Note: I am not a German (although my last name is!) and am not a

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Holy crap, Chris Pirillo is hereAnd here's me.-- Kyle GoetzBS Pure Mathematics, BA Japanese 2006The University of Texasv2sw4+5Yhw3+6ln6+8pr6Ock0ma9u6+7Lw7Xm5l7Ge4t6Mb9Ten5+8g7HPa22s4MSr4p6/9 hackerkey.comUsing M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/

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A couple days ago, my mom pulled all the old tapes that my brother and I used to listen to when we were kids -- imagine my excitement that the audio I had longed to capture and put online was in the box! Presently, I am capturing The Disney Afternoon from cassette; the quality is excellent and I'm capturing in 44.1KHz, 16-bit stereo into WAV by means ofCassette Player [name unknown] > component

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*sigh* I've turned off all commenting because of the amount of comment spam I'm getting. I would have thought Google would have a comment moderation feature where I could moderate even members of Blogger before their comments made it up. That would be so much easier. Oh well. Comments off. I wonder when I'll have time to update again.I'm applying for law school right now.　Peace out.

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http://www.southcoasttoday.com/daily/12-05/12-17-05/a09lo650.htm

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Today, on Boing Boing, a link to a WWII-era Japanese propaganda pamphlet was posted. Unfortunately for many, the pamphlet was obviously in Japanese. I decided to translate the pamphlet for those who want to know what was said. Additionally, for those who are interested in the Japanese language during this era, it is a good study, I think. There have been various changes in the method of rendering

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Darth Vader and schoolgirls. Is there anything else a nerd would want to see in the same picture, besides maybe a beowulf cluster of something? The caption says (as it does in the Yoda photo as well), "Star Wars has come to au cellphones!"

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Yoda is stealing his woman. I always suspected the force was strong with him.

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This was some 40 feet tall at least.

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Here's a translation of an advertisement for the Sasumata**note Sasumata is defined as "two-pronged weapon for catching a criminal; man-catcher war fork" by the WWWJDic, which I used to look up "sasumata" (I've never seen it before, but suspected it had roots as a military weapon).---begin translationGuarantees Safety from Mysterious Persons or Strangers!Sasumata for Prevention of Crime [

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HarajukuOn Sunday, because it wasn't raining, I decided it was the perfect time to go to Harajuku (the fashion district of Tokyo) to see the freaks and fashions. It was an excellent experience!The first thing I noticed was the even-odd-for-Tokyo juxtaposition of old and new -- the huge stone lanterns sitting at the corners of the intersection of two main roads (leading to Shibuya, among others)

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Tanabata (July 7, 7/7) is a celebration when, according to a Chinese legend, the Vega and Altair stars (who are lovers), can meet for one night each year. The river of stars (Milky Way) gets low enough so the bridge connecting their habitats can be crossed, and they get to be all romantic with each other.I went to Hiratsuka for this with my hostmother, her friend, and my friend (and my

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Last Friday, I went to a drinking party (飲み会, のみかい) with Amuse Company (my tennis buddies). Turns out, that their last meeting until the camp that I'm going to with them July 31 and August 1. I'm very glad I went. I had promised Takuya, the leader, that I would go drinking with him before I went back to the States, so I couldn't weasel out of paying the 30 dollars. It was so worth it. I also

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In my Kanji Class two Fridays ago, we did calligraphy. I had a fun time writing 蔡 (my girlfriend's last name) and 日本 (required by the teacher). I still have the papers, and plan to bring them back with me to the US. Note that from last semester I have 海留 (a phonetic representation of my name) written by my professor of Japanese culture.Last Thursday was my last day teaching English at Suzuki's

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Well, not much to write about so far. However, I did go to Machida today (to change my credit card number on file for my cellphone -- turns out it didn't go through anyways -_-;;;). While there, I decided to search for some Engrish shirts! I returned home with four (read it: FOUR) sweet shirts. Granted, only two are Engrish, but they are awesome nonetheless.Shirt one (Japanese language shirt):

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OK. I have finished all my crap that has been killing me for nearly a month now. I can sit down and write about what has happened for the past long while.First thing off the top of my head is that SCHOOL IS HARD THIS SEMESTER. My Japanese class is very, very difficult, but extremely enjoyable. I've learned so much, and I get along great with the Chinese and Korean kids in the class (which makes

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---begin translation---Titlebar of Browser: Defure [trans. could be "Deflated" or "Deflowered"] Spiral ~ Our Secret PlaceBody:Ruins Investigative ReportReferred to as "Abandoned Amusement Park T"Located in Northeast RegionConcerning ruins, there are various types, but my own personal favorite is abandoned amusement parks. Always when I receive information from people looking after them, I

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Me by a cherry blossom tree. That's Obirin right behind me! Check out my awesome Creative Commons Copyleft shirt!

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A gorgeous view of cherry blossom trees lining the street, don't you think?

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I'm surrounded by cherry blossom trees!

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Cherry blossoms near Obirin. Those are my classmates in front of me -- Mary, Jake, Misa, Kazuo...

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A street near Obirin lined with Cherry Blossom Trees

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Cherry Blossoms at Obirin

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Cherry Blossoms at Obirin

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Obirin University Wind Power Electric Generator and Solar Power Electric Generator System

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A gender-bending emcee duo speak with Yamada (center) after his acoustic performance. He preceeded Groovy Dust (see blog entry).

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The Nagoyanz (teens from Nagoya) doing a Chinese yo-yo routine at Sakura Night Festa (sakura = cherry blossoms).

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My university's high school kids handbell choir. They played "Beauty and the Beast".

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My first and only encounter with Yakuza thus far.

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"32nd Sagamihara People's Cherry Blossom Festival"

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Why did the Japanese police officer have this on his motorcycle (which was a HARLEY)?

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THIS WAS A MOTORCYCLE TRICK SHOW WITH POLICE OFFICERS IN IT!!! (pretty cool cops if you ask me)

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Fishing for goldfish

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Crowded street (Pikachu - L; okonomiyaki - R)

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More fashion in Japan

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Fashion in Japan

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OK. This is an update for the past week. Of course this past Sunday was Easter. I went to Kamimizo Church (上溝教会) for Easter. While there, we had a worship service, a meal (my hostmother told them ahead of time not to give me anything with mayonnaise, so I was safe), and chatted after that. The pastor asked me to stand up and speak about Easter in America, so I told them about how my family eats

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The Lord's Prayer in Japanese. I'll have to get down to transcribing this soon.

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The pews at Kamimizo Church (Kamimizo Kyoukai)

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Kamimizo Church where I spent 6 hours Easter Sunday.

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I thought it was funny..."US Mail"...hehe

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Well, I've been back in Japan for nearly two weeks and doing mostly nothing. I've sat around, chatted with my girlfriend (nearing 20 months -- w00t!), slept a lot, studied some LSAT, read some manga, and studied a few kanji.I thought I would share a few words of Japanese that I've learned the past few days that have popped into my head.滑り台（すべりだい） - playground slide (lit. slipping platform)オービー -

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Well, I'm back in Japan.Here is a translation I did of an Elecom release for Slashdot before Slashdot threw the lameness filter at me. What an ungrateful filter!Forgive any ugly translation, I did it fast and made some ugly englishifications with hyphens instead of racking my brain for real fancy ways to say it in English. Additionally, I may have missed the actual English technical terms in my

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2004.01.25 Well, today I woke up and ate breakfast real fast. After that, I went to Obirin for a one-time job -- Obirin was interviewing for a new Japanese-teacher position. I get the feeling that my impression of a good teacher and the interviewers' impressions of a good teacher are different -- I was enthusiastic about the one man who went; he was very expressive, energetic, and could also

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Just an update of what's been happening the past coupla of weeks -- not much. I have a job now, making around 23 USD an hour, working right now 3 hours a week but it will bump up to 5 hours a week soon. I'm working for a guy named Suzuki. So I'll give you a rundown of the first day of work -- Tuesday. I taught three "classes". The first was a one-on-one with this 30ish lady named Naoko. Her

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Couple of interesting things:shakai no mado (window of society) -- unzipped zipper, equivalent to "XYZPDQ" in USian English.also nothin like seeing a 1st grader waiting alone for the bus with a cellphone in his hand!

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I stumbled upon a NanoBlogMo (blogs for National Novel Writing Month -- november) that was in Japanese with English translation. The author's native languages is Japanese, but it's good Japanese practice, I think. The blog is here

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Well, I just finished watching Last Christmas, the Japanese drama that was HUGE this Christmas season. Wow, it was good.WARNING SPOILERS FOR THE SERIES COMING UP!!!warningwarningwarning warning!!!--begin spoiler stuff WARNING WARNING WARNINGAnd you know how when you (this is for you Americans, especially) are faced with a foreigner with a thick accent, and you get told something like, "This is my

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This doesn't have anything to do with Japan, but I really found this story awesome.http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2004-12-25-ebay-gifts_x.htmbasically some kids were cussing and pissing their parents off, being generally bad, so their dad was like "whatever you don't get christmas presents" and AUCTIONED THEIR THREE NINTENDO DSes OFF ON EBAY!

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I want to go to Yasukuni Shrine and hide a tape recorder so I can narrate to it what all is written there. It is a shrine that honors the war dead of Japan. In Japan, death absolves your crimes. However, in Christianity it does not. Nor in Chinese belief, from what I understand. So when the Prime Minister visits this shrine, which also honors war crimes and war criminals for "doing what was

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one other thing i have neglected to mention but really should...i'm not an employee of skype, but rather a VERY hardcore useri use it exclusively to make phone calls and that is how i can afford to call my gf everyday...probably just 1.20 USD an hour (but getting more expensive as Euro-USD rates change)you can make a skype-skype call (to another skype user) for free and the founder of the company

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the chicken we had for christmas

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I don't think my hostmother believes in allergies. She gives me food. Tells me it has shrimp (海老 ebi) in it and says "but it's only 1 piece, you can eat it. I say, NO I HAVE AN ALLERGY. Her: Eat it. It's not that much! Me: NO, i have an allergy i'm not eating it. i don't think she was happy that i repeatedly refused her in front of her son's family, but she should have known i'm not going to eat

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first thing's first, the thing that finally got me offa my lazy butt to write the month-long needed update! YAHOOO!!! I can do what I've wanted to do for a month or so now...ever since I saw Umarete wa Mita Keredo (I Was Born, But..)生まれては見たけれど I have had the idea that I should take public domain Japanese films and translate and put them online. this would of course be legal, be fun, help spread

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people often say that a sales tax is regressive, and harms the poor more because most of their income is spent on sustenance so they pay more tax proportionally speakingi just realized that if most of their money is spent on sustenance, and sustenance (ie raw food) is NOT taxed, then those people are wrong...comments?

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well I have a Bacon Number of 3 LOL. So I think I win ^_^. the linkage broken down: I am related to Lenny von Dohlen Lenny von Dohlen was in Jennifer Eight (1992) with Kevin (I) Conway * Kevin (I) Conway was in Mystic River (2003) with Kevin Bacon * OR (since i'm oober related to famous ppl) I am related to the late Johnny Cash (my mom's side) Johnny (I) Cash was in Hunted, The (2003) with

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Human Test: Novel Vaccine Stops HIVwouldn't it be great if this was the start of the cure?

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i am speechlessin what is most likely the stupidest (yet most rewarding) thing i have done since coming to japan...i read Haruki Murakami's South of the Border, West of the Sun cover to cover straight through...no stop for food, drink, anything...it is now 3:55 ami was going to go to bed at 12, get a good night's sleep, be ready to do well in class tomorrow and have a good restapparently notnow i

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2004.11.23 quick note for anyone who cares (i just ate a snickers), on the package is this: おなかがすいたらスニッカーズバー ″ナッツぎっしり確かな満足″ onaka ga suitara sunikka-zu ba- "nattsu gisshiri tashika na manzoku" which means roughly If you're hungry, Snickers Bar! "nuts packed to certain satisfaction" ok i'm going to bed (it's just hit the 24th in the morning...) --- 2004.11.24 something i need to post...i

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2004.11.21 well i should go ahead and type in what happened since last last (2 weekends ago) saturday (since i had crashed and lost what i had typed, i couldn't post it, and now i have time -- a weekend w/o lots of field trips hehehe ^_^) so on saturday i went with my japanese culture class to kita-kamakura and kamakura (the same place, but different train stops, so i make a distinction) to see

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i just had the quick urge to post this, when i really should be typing away what happened this weekend and wednesday, and posting pictures and explaining others...but all this crap about software patents...maybe i should actually write it all out sometimeall the problems it produces, all the stuff software patents are putting the industry, and -- if i may be so bold -- putting the future of the

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i got this film strip from "neko no ongaeshi" for free with my entrance fee

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a sign telling me 300m to ghibli, as you can read ^_^

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the iron giant??

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a spire you get to climb

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me at the entrance, with totoro!

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entrance, it literally says "mitaka forest ghibli museum" -- the pixar exhibit was going on, as obviated by the sign at the upper right

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San from Princess Mononoke -- a paperweight

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a shinto wedding ceremony

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LOADS of alcohol

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a pretty bridge i thought

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a boy with an ultraman mask, coming from a religious thing?! how much does that rock... (yes i dressed like yogi bear for christmas church service)

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walking towards hachimangu shrine in kamakura for 7-5-3 day

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me at the first shrine

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graveyard

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pond

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pretty nature

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buddha within that compound..

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a different building within that compound

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another pic

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the first shrine we went to..this is the entrance

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cool drawing of north and south america ne?

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looks like a shrine's fire hydrant alright!

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yasser arafat is deadi'll maybe post some words later...i'll think about it tonight...

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turn your head sideways, and look at me with my hat on!

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BANANA

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some wine that i tried, with the small glass i used

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the food...doesn't it look so tasty?

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nagi-chan enjoying her food

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tomomi and ken-chan...her bday too today!

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tinsel (kira kira) for the bday party

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present from nagi-chan...it's me and her and a huge cake with strawberries on top...thanks, nagi-chan!

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A blog on japanese toilets ^_^

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interesting fact: tamago (卵 or 玉子 which i found out today is an あて語 -- 'atego', or a word ppl are like 'hey that makes sense let's write it that way!), which means 'egg' is composed, as you can see, of two kanji...the meanings are 'ball/gem/jewel' and 'child'...isn't that neat? a 'ball child'...long live the atego! second thing: i was at a video store a coupla days ago, and i picked up a

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canada dry ginger ale, i've settled into japanese life???

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view from my veranda...not much to see, ne?

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