Did you know that Japanese people love curry?
It seems contradictory, Japanese cuisine is one of the least spicy food types, but perhaps because of the difference of tastes, Japanese people love to eat something spicy sometimes.
There are many curry shops in Japan, some run by Indian, Pakistani, and Nepalese chefs, but more recently, many run by Japanese curry enthusiasts. In this food culture, ...
JOI’s Business Japanese class
JOI's Business Japanese class teaches all you need to know to do business in Japan. It includes essential business manners and key Japanese business jargon and also writing emails and giving presentations.
It is about the latter that Fujinawa sensei, one of the teachers of the Business Japanese classes, introduces in this blog. You can study the vocabulary and Kanji...
Many Japanese family names
There are a very large number of family names or surnames in Japan compared to other East Asian countries. And the two most popular Japanese surnames are Sato and Suzuki.
Some of the names have a long and distinct history but some are quite new because in 1875 the Meiji government passed a law requiring all citizens to register a family name. So many names were created...
Writing emails in Japanese
With emails becoming the most used form of business communication, it is important to learn how to write emails in Japanese properly. There is a course that you can take at JOI that teaches business Japanese and also how to write a business email.
But this blog is a funny look at how people can make mistakes when writing Japanese. The computer Kanji covert feature can ...
Household chores in Japan
There was a survey by the Nippon.com site which showed that Japanese wives do seven times more housework than their husbands. The imbalance is even true when both partners are working.
In this blog by a Japanese homemaker and language teacher Chiharu Takase, she points out her household chores likes and dislikes.
It is an amusing blog for Japanese language learners tha...
