If you see someone who seems to only experience misfortune in their lives, they’re 可哀想. Like all expressions of pity, it can be compassionate or patronizing depending on the context. 60. オフィスレディ — Office Lady Hiragana: おふぃすれでぃ You may have heard of terms like ...
In their earliest malevolent manifestations (transmitted via Chinese fox lore to Japan by at least the 7th century CE), Tanuki assumed human form, haunted and possessed people, and were considered omens of misfortune. Many centuries later in Japan, they evolved into irrepressible tricksters, aiming...
Only Prof. Tadokoro has an idea of what’s going on: Japan – every last one of its islands – will sink into the ocean, destroyed by the same force that once has created it by splitting it off Asia. When evidence mounts that Day X is not more than two years away, there begins a...
Imi 忌. Means avoidance or things to avoid. Impurities. The act of keeping one's mind and body pure. Abstention from defilement. This kanji is also associated with mourning, taboo, or misfortune, hence the need to remain pure of mind and body. Shintō abhors impurity, and thus all impurit...
Although he was happy to hear that his timely arrival had spared his mother such misfortune, he was a little disappointed that the timing of his birth didn’t have a more positive story associated with it. Soon after his family arrived at his father’s house, he cooked ramen for every...
(Apologies for switching to a different naming system this week. Since the characters refer to each other using last names and honorifics, I figured it was more appropriate.) Yowamushi Pedal – Episode 2 Despite its seeding at #21, I was half expecting Yowapeda to wipe the floor with its ...
that the carpenter had described. Apparently in Japan when a family stops using a toilet, they have a priest purify it ritually with salt, an ofuda (shinto talismans often hung at shrines), and a blessing. This prevents any misfortune apparently. The toilet had been put out of use long ...
These current trends are reflected in hardware results, with the PS4 continuing a strong run. Results remain consistent elsewhere, which see the 3DS 'family' leading the Vita when all models are included and the Wii U still performing modestly. The results are below with last week's ...
At first I though it was just a badly coded remote management technology intended to please big corporations, that was probably being exploited by the intelligence community as a consequence of its multiple bugs. In the last days I learned how much despise Intel has to its customers (e.g.,...