To give them a fresh start within the Sukeban league, Le-Tan helped to create new personas (with coinciding outfits) for the athletes—ones distinct from their typical avatars in Japan, where they wrestle under different names. The Sukeban roster includes wrestlers like Bingo,“the resident evil...
A universal redux version of my Meteor attempt at Words with Friends (online scrabble). - words-with-strangers-redux/input_words.txt at master · joshwcomeau/words-with-strangers-redux
Another common word with this meaning for じ is じごく, ground + prison = “hell”. There is an anime series known as Hell Girl, for which the Japanese name is じごく しょうじょ (the second word means “little girl”). There’s also いじ, which means “spirit” or “disposition...
For your convenience, this post is sorted in alphabetical order. You will be able to find the most comprehensive list of Japanese names, their meanings, and pronunciations, in the following categories: Contents Japanese Boy Names Japanese Girl Names Gender-Neutral Names Japanese Boy Names Aito Ai...
A Japanese friend who had just changed jobs complained to me that the new work environment was really ザ・会社 (za kaisha, “the” company). Which was to say it was full of red tape, opaque procedures, cemented hierarchies and everything else one commonly associates with the unpleasant asp...
~chanis a suffix used as a term for endearment. It is also usually, but not necessarily, reserved for girls because it makes them sound cute. So basically, you usually should only use this if you’re really close to them, regardless whether they are a boy or a girl, younger or older...
Known as "bishōjo games" or "pretty girl games" (alternately spelled "bishojo" or "bishoujo") in Japanese, the games are known under several names used by English fans, including PC dating-sim game, hentai game/H game, and so on. Companies such as Peach Princess, JAST USA and G-...
Kenrokuen. In the garden is a stone monument engraved with aMatsuo Bashohaiku in 1689. I had a tricky time trying to find the actual haiku because it is, of course, written in Kanji (on the stone and the wooden sign). But after some googling I foundhaikugirlwho has kindly agreed to...
So many English words have entered the Japanese vocabulary that even the crustiest old dude with a plow can cobble together enough of a sentence to get his point across. For younger people, the breadth of vocabulary is astonishing. By graduation, every high school kid knows a couple thousand...
A Japanese teenage girl who was visiting South Korea as a tourist was assaulted by a Korean man in Seoul on Friday Aug 23. When the girl refused his sexual advances, he hurled racial slur and began attacking her. No news media mentioned (self-censorship of the media) , but the video cl...