Tag: japanese
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May 28, 2007 11:30 AM EDT --
By Marty Salo
News Correspondent
Apparantly, one of the minsters in Japan has killed himself.
Suicide doesn't make much sense.
I suppose that those who have much and will likely . . .
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April 23, 2007 11:50 PM EDT --
Homemade Soba Noodles
“My wife’s mother is making soba noodles for us for dinner.” Buddhist Monk Yoshihiro Unezawa told me and made a circular motion with his hands - the . . .
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October 04, 2008 05:13 PM EDT --
I'm assuming it's Japanese anyway. Hell, it could be Chinese! I am not able to read it whatever it is! And I need HELP!
A couple years back I was at a Goodwill when I found this set of two . . .
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October 04, 2006 01:18 AM EDT --
Ethel was born in Oklahoma in July of 1931 to a working class family. Her parents were good people who worked hard and provided as best they could for their young child. They were products of their . . .
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May 29, 2007 09:25 AM EDT --
Deep fried grasshoppers.
She always taught us to be polite and eat what was served by your host or hostess, whether . . .
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July 04, 2007 10:51 AM EDT --
(Warning: Seventeen photos.)
When we purchased our current home (from a romance novelist and her lawyer husband, who were obviously too busy in their glamo-lives to tend to something as mundane as yard . . .
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September 25, 2007 02:26 AM EDT --
I returned from a visit to Kyoto, Japan earlier this month. Kyoto is one of the oldest, best preserved cities in Japan. It was the capital of Japan for more than 1000 years and was not bombed in WW II. . . .
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April 25, 2008 01:59 PM EDT --
NOTE: I've just created a chapbook with a series of five of these ghost stories, which is going to be available shortly on ghosttocoast.us.
The general Japanese word for "ghost" . . .
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December 01, 2008 01:26 PM EST --
Continued photos of the Huntington Library where the wife and I were the guests of Gather's own Cheri Cabot. While the first photo essay dealt with the Chinese Garden primarily...this will . . .
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July 11, 2007 10:27 PM EDT --
Haiku poets of the past were expected to write one at the end of their days. Though it was considered "cheating", some wrote one in advance so they wouldn't get caught with something . . .
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August 26, 2007 12:03 PM EDT --
F.O.B. is an acronym for Fresh Off the Boat, that first generation children like to use (I like to think of it as a term of endearment) . . .
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July 01, 2008 02:33 PM EDT --
The Japanese Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park was originally built as a Japanese village for the California Midwinter Fair of 1894 . Following the fair, a wealthy Japanese landscape designer, Makoto Hagiwara, . . .
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October 28, 2008 12:21 PM EDT --
recently i was contacted by oxford university press, to review their complete language learning kit, take off in japanese.
when it came, i was SOOOOO excited! i lived in japan while i was in college, . . .
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July 30, 2009 02:02 PM EDT --
Our trip to the Birmingham Botanical Gardens was fun. It is roughly a two hour drive for us but well worth the trip. The gardens are free and the Birmingham Zoo is only a five minute drive . . .
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January 08, 2007 07:01 PM EST --
Most Americans, at least of my generation, will probably recognize this phrase: "There are people starving in Africa." The geographic locale might change -- China, Ethiopia - but the meaning . . .
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January 31, 2007 11:21 PM EST --
YIKES! Not totally uncommon though. Several years back, an older woman gave some kimono she no longer needed to charity. Turned out there was money hidden in them! The Japanese are fond of keeping . . .
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November 11, 2007 05:30 PM EST --
Chapter One: Hakata
Mr. Ogari Mori stepped down off the train onto the platform of Hakata Station and surveyed the scene before him. The platform was crowded and noisy. A group of . . .
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September 02, 2008 11:12 AM EDT --
This is a Sansa Clip. It has 1GB of flash memory and is about the same size of a matchbox. A small matchbox. It has an easy-to-read 4-line display as well as a gym-worthy clip that can stay attached . . .
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January 27, 2009 05:14 PM EST --
I just finished up watching the last of the available episodes of Shikabane Hime (you can read more about the series here ) on Hulu the other day, so it really isn't surprising that I have . . .
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May 15, 2009 12:35 PM EDT --
This will be a several part article log that I'm writing on Japanese Schools. I'll start with elementary school, then move on to middle, high and college (with some bonus articles). . . .
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