Why Is Nihon Called Japan In English? https://youtu.be/QXLwJqZ7b9M 3(+3/-0) 1glenn Sep. 25, 202205:08 pm JST Some things are interesting to question, but easier just to accept. Why do English speakers say Italy, but Italians "Italia"? I say Lisbon, but Portuguese say Lis...
It’s common to see furigana on really important signs too, like train station signs. Many train stations in Japan also helpfully include the names written out in English for folks like us! So if you ever see small text on top of normal-sized Japanese text, now you know what it is!
Using the Japanese style of spelling, it would be a little more like “yossi” or “yossy”, although the latter style is a little rarer to see. In essence, some folks on the Japanese side thought, “Hey, we should write ヨッシー’s name in English here to make it look cool. Sinc...
In Japan, however, things were different. Perhaps the easiest way to understand the Japanese market at the time is to imagine that home computers did not exist. From this perspective, the direction that the Japanese electronics industry took makes perfect sense. Everything needed to be designed ...
@KristinaDrew日曜日 Sunday (Nichiyoubi) Ni in Nihon is related to nichi (sun or day); most kanji have several readings, you need to get used to it. Condividi questa domanda KristinaDrew 13 mar 2020 Inglese (Stati Uniti) Serbo @m_monnieoh, thank you!
Maybe it came from the Chinese word for Japan, which sounds kinda like Yiipun. Or it could b...
14. Sake– Sake is Japan’s traditional alcohol, made from fermenting rice. Technically, the word “sake” in Japanese refers to all alcoholic beverages, whilenihonshuis the Japanese word for what most Westerners call sake. There are many different varieties of sake, varying based on how much...
base of Mount Fuji to watch the rising light ofhatsuhinode—the maiden sunrise—usher in the new year. The Ainu, mainland Japan’s ancient indigenous people, believed that the sun was among hundreds of gods, and one of the most important. To witness a hatsuhinode is considered a sacred ...
“If you come to Japan thinking that all Japanese people are sweet, you will be in for a shock a lot. This is my experience and there is no country where everybody is sweet.” (Italian man) "Many Japanese can’t help it because foreigners in Japan are a minority.”...
In essence, the whole of the digital world (as we have come to understand it, at least) is not limited to the intangible spaces that exist in electrical wavelengths flittering through the skies that comprise this massive biosphere called Earth; it is a combination of both physical and digital...