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… What’s taking them so long?!) it took this long to arrive.
We worked late in [...]

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 subscriber can no longer double the number of subscribers. It will take two [...]

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

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. Many of you have his Breaking into Japanese Literature book – and if you [...]

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 two months ago a friend called and said, “Clay, Wal-Mart has three Wiis. [...]

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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 adds the ‘if’ factor
赤くなる akaku naru become red
Literally, this proverb means if you mix a red coloring to something, at some point [...]

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 a search for ‘learn Japanese in 1 minute’ in Google (as of 4:05 PM May 18t, [...]

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

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 regular news sites online, however IBD always seems to fill in the blanks.  If you [...]