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A Biased Way of Reading a Book

On World Book Day, I’d like to write about a book for all book lovers: “The Diary of A Bookseller” by Shuan Bythell (Profile Books Ltd.) I admit that this title is not the latest bestseller, but it certainly hasn’t lost any of its charm.

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Deciphering Archaic Texts Full of Katakana

Japanese schoolkids can be envious of European ones when it comes to one thing. Instead of learning only 26 (30 in German) letters of the alphabet, they need to learn three different sets of characters. First they learn Hiragana ひらがな and t

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Names are people’s identity

Encouraged by the positive feedback on my recent post in an SNS about hard-to-decipher Japanese names, I would like to explore this subject further. In actual fact, Japanese names aren’t the only ones that are difficult to translate. German

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