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Blogcritics article #19

My most recent article on Blogcritics is available here for anyone who is interested. This one is about something I've touched on before about the way in which body language in Japan often emphasizes the differences between Japanese and foreign people,... ...full story at So-Called Japanese Life

from So-Called Japanese Life on Mon, Jan 28 2008

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13 Dec 07 visit Blogcritics article #18  »  So-Called Japanese Life It's been a long time since I've written a new Blogcritics article, but I was inspired last night. Some of the sentences seem to have been edited in such a way as to make some of them a bit odd (this tends to happen for some reason). It's a review of a...
08 Oct 08 visit Opinions need to be challenged  »  Japan Times Regarding Roger Pulvers' Oct. 5 article, "So you think U.S. democracy's dying? Well, you're probably right": I really enjoy reading articles by Pulvers on Japanese language and culture, but his most recent Counterpoint article appears to be one more...
18 Oct 07 visit Improving on foreign concepts  »  Japan Times As the Sept. 23 article "Japanese: a language in a state of flux" suggests, Japan has a long history of cultural and intellectual importation, ranging from language to literary stylistics. Read more . . .
06 May 08 visit National › Symposium urges Japan to keep Article 9  »  Japan Today The war-renouncing Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution serves to cherish people not only in Japan but also in other countries, panelists at a series…
30 Sep 07 visit 'Modern' Japanese harder to read  »  Japan Times I found Tomoko Otake's Sept. 23 article, "Japanese: a language in a state of flux" -- about the invasion of modern Japanese by gairaigo (foreign loan words) -- very interesting. Fifteen years ago, as... Read more . . .

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