Monthly Archives: May 2007

2006 JLPT Books

Posted on May 31, 2007 by Clay

Last night we finally got the 2006 JLPT books in. They have been out for about a month in Japan, but since we got our shipment by boat and boats don’t yet have an instant teleportation device installed (I know… … Continue reading →

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A Big Day

Posted on May 30, 2007 by Clay

Upon logging into this site today, I received a notification saying someone actually registered to this site! My subscription base has doubled in one fell swoop! Quite a big day for this site. This means from now on, a single … Continue reading →

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Some People have too much Time on their Hands

Posted on May 29, 2007 by Clay

Monty Python’s ‘How not to be seen’ skit has never looked better. Mr. Halo shows us how not to be seen:

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Exploring Japanese Literature

Posted on May 28, 2007 by Clay

Breaking News… Kodansha just sent me their Fall 2007 / Winter 2008 catalog. Wow. I still write ’06 on checks. とにかく, I learned today Giles Murray is coming out with a new bilingual reader this Fall called Exploring Japanese Literature. … Continue reading →

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Excite Truck

Posted on May 28, 2007 by Clay

Having nothing at all to do with Japanese but wanting to type something here, I turn to a video game we’ve been playing. Maybe I will make a category for Video Games. Done. Ah, the joys of tabbed browsing… About … Continue reading →

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Digital Juice’s Sale

Posted on May 25, 2007 by Clay

Digital Juice is an industry leader in high quality royalty free animations, music, artwork etc for video editing and print.  If you are interested in video editing and you’re needing some fancy watahoos to make your work sparkle, Digital Juice … Continue reading →

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朱に交われば赤くなる

Posted on May 21, 2007 by Clay

Here’s a neat ことわざ: 朱に交われば赤くなる shu ni majiwareba akakunaru lit. blood red-if mingled with-become red A rotten apple spoils the barrel. 朱 shu is the color of blood, scarlet red 交わる majiwaru means to mingle or mix with 交われば majiwareba … Continue reading →

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Japanese in a Minute?

Posted on May 18, 2007 by Clay

From time to time I like to do odd searches to see where we may pop up.  If I get enough complaints about this nonsensical waste of time, I’ll probably stop.  But here is one for today. If you do … Continue reading →

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Neat

Posted on May 17, 2007 by Clay

This will take a while to fully load, but it is worth the wait: http://www.1-click.jp/

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三船敏郎 Mifune Toshiro

Posted on May 16, 2007 by Clay

The only paper newspaper I take is the weekly  edition of Investors Business Daily.  It is an awesome newspaper with a quick snapshot of business and international news.   I get most of the everyday news on TV or through the … Continue reading →

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