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Posted on January 4, 2017 by Daniel

明けましておめでとうございます! Happy New Year! It’s the Year of the Rooster, which apparently is not as lucky for me (a Rooster) as I initially believed…it’s just my responsibility to throw the beans on Setsubun as a 年男. よろしくお願いします! After an extended … Continue reading →

Posted in Hard-Boiled Wonderland, Murakami | Tagged hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world, Haruki Murakami

Cool Phrase – ご無沙汰

Posted on December 15, 2016 by Daniel

ご無沙汰しています! I was in the Japan Times last week and this week looking at correspondence, letters and emails respectively: “‘Tis the season for ‘tegami’ — and for facing your Japanese letter-writing fears” and “To email in Japanese, take a layer … Continue reading →

Posted in writing | Tagged emails, japanese, letters

Cool Tongue Twister – 坊主が屏風に上手に坊主の絵を描いた

Posted on June 23, 2016 by Daniel

I’m in the Japan Times Bilingual page this week: “Repetition and role-play are crucial for speaking success in Japanese.” I was stunned to see that no one had previously written about 早口言葉 (はやくちことば, tongue twisters)…as long as the search engine … Continue reading →

Posted in comedy | Tagged tongue twister, 早口言葉

How to say “plumber butt” in Japanese, and other random Sunday thoughts

Posted on April 25, 2016 by Daniel

The other day I suddenly remembered the phrase 半ケツ. I’m not sure what prompted it. I mean, I have as many random sexual thoughts as your average red-blooded American male, but this was not sexual in nature…at least not completely. … Continue reading →

Posted in body parts, vocab | Tagged ass, plumber butt, 半ケツ

別れてください – How to Break up in Japanese

Posted on March 10, 2016 by Daniel

I’m on the Japan Times Bilingual Page today: “To furu or furareru: In any lingo, breaking up is hard to do.” Sadly the piece is inspired by a true story. As is my MO these days, I dug deep in … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged breaking up, relationship

Cool Word – 場合

Posted on May 12, 2015 by Daniel

I’m on the Japan Times Bilingual page this week: “In Japanese, mastery of the space-time continuum is just a few words away.” The intro is inspired by my first ever trip to Japan—an internship with a propeller company. I was … Continue reading →

Posted in probability / possibility, vocab | Tagged conditional, hypothetical, 場合

Karaoke Kotoba – いとし

Posted on March 2, 2015 by Daniel

Back in the ‘90s and the early ‘00s when I first played through (parts of) FFVI, I had no idea how much the opera scene owed to karaoke culture, but now it’s totally clear. I mean, there’s a syllable for … Continue reading →

Posted in karaoke | Tagged karaoke

Final Fantasy VI on iOS in Japanese

Posted on January 5, 2015 by Daniel

I have another Bilingual page column in the Japan Times today: “The myths and misery of translating Japanese video games.” It’s sort of a redux of my post “On Translation and Me” (which was later syndicated at Kotaku) with a … Continue reading →

Posted in video games | Tagged final fantasy vi, video games

Getting used to お陰様

Posted on January 11, 2012 by Daniel

One of the best parts about my return to New Orleans is that I have not been sick as much as I was in Japan. My first winter in Fukushima I caught pneumonia. The second year I had the flu … Continue reading →

Posted in get used to it!, polite

white ≠ ワイト

Posted on August 1, 2011 by Daniel

My first winter vacation living in Fukushima, I spent a week in Tokyo staying with my friend Thomas. He had come to Tokyo with his girlfriend shortly after graduating, and not long before I visited they split up, forcing him … Continue reading →

Posted in vocab, wordplay

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