The Japanese Word for To Be/Death is Awesone March 2, 2014 Well, from what I can cobble together from scattered information online (here’s a good post on it), the word for “to be” or “am” in Japanese is “desu.” Sometimes it is shortened as “des” or “dess.” There ...
Excessive hours are such a big problem that there's even a Japanese word for death by overwork:karoshi. According to a news story published by NHK, Miwa Sado had worked 159 hours of overtime in the month before her death. The circumstances of Sado's death in 2013 had not been made pub...
根据We Japanese consider it important to respect each other, rather than give expensive gifts.我们日本人认为互相尊重比赠送贵重的礼物重要。以及The Japanese word "four" sounds like the word for "death".日语里面的4听上去和死很像。可知,我们能从对话中了解到日本文化,因此B项正确。练习册系列答案 ...
for the fifth basic taste – along with sweet, sour, bitter and salty – that we didn’t have a name for or even know existed until someone premiered the word in the Japanese journal of psychology Shinrigaku Kenkyu in 1963. Since then it’s gone from strength to strength – metaphoricall...
(%) case-patients Age, y* <1 6 (7) 1–14 67 (74) >15 71 (19) Sex M 59 (66) F 31 (34) Death associated with Japanese encephalitis 5 (6) Specimen type collected Serum 77 (86) Cerebrospinal fluid 13 (14) History of travel outside district of residence† N...
The story would end there, were it not for Michizane’s premature death at age 58. Thereafter the Imperial Palace in Kyoto was ravaged by thunder and relentless lightning and the city experienced weeks of rainstorms and floods. Attributing this to the angry spirit of the exiled Sugawara, the...
Whatever you do,do not give someone gifts in a set of fouras this is considered unlucky since the Japanese word for “four” is pronounced in the same way as “death”. Never give to a Japanese gifts in a set of four as this is considered unlucky since the Japanese word for “four”...
Do not give gifts in odd number or the number four, as odd numbers are bad luck and four sounds like the word for death in Japanese. Gifts should be given at the end of a visit. Do not admire anything belonging to your host too closely. The Japanese strive to please; you may be ...
He refuses to believe that one of my brothers is responsible for my father's death. After this he went down to Capernaum with his mother and brothers and his disciples. Brothers Grimm's Little Red Riding Hood has a neutral gender, while Charles Perrault's has a masculine one. English wo...
Japanese Yokai can be cute. On the flipside, they can be utterly evil and scary too! Here are 15 deadly Yokai you’d never want to meet, within or outside of Japan.