As is well-known, "the distinction in meaning between Wa and Ga is a problem that perpetually troubles both students and instructors of Japanese" (Kuno 1973:37). See Kuno (1972, 1973) and Mikami (1960), among others, for extremely insightful discussions of this point. Now, let us ...
“I come from a traditional, very ordinary Japanese family. My father was a businessman, my mother a stay-at-home mom,” Shimizu says. “I wasn’t in the environment to go to art school…it’s not something my family would think of.” In 1977, her father’s company moved the famil...
and I was also not so sure about what exactly I wanted to do with life (I was like 17 after all). So I ended up going to a regular university. I got really good grades in high school, so I got accepted into a good university on recommendation, thus avoiding notorious Japanese colleg...
More in depth scholarship on his later theory can cast light on his whole career and on its relation not only to the Japanese cultural and political dynamics after the 1960s, but also to the international intellectual environment of that period. The present article takes Shimizu's claim to a...
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(Meaning that he behaves like a monkey; To herself)"A banana suitsTanaka."[15] (To herself)"You train, keep training, then train some more. The countless hours you put in, the progress made... All of it can come to a screeching halt in the blink of an eye... So what if it ...