Mottainai. Ma. Danshari. Japanese words that carry entire worldviews. I'm a Tokyo-born writer and former Japanese language teacher. Every issue, I take one thing Japan has left unsaid — and say it, carefully, in English.
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My Father Said Sorry in a Japanese I Never Spoke
My father likes to tease. When I was small he would come up behind me and tap my back, or my shoulder, lightly, and I would turn around angry. I do not remember what was said in between. I remember what came next, because it was always the...
I Buy the Sweets Nobody in My House Will Eat
Every Japanese person knows a proverb about the heat. Hot and cold both last until higan. People say it at the end of August, when the summer will not end. The odd thing is the word inside it. Higan is a Buddhist word. It means the far shor...
I Was the One Who Said You Should Know Without Being Told
A few years ago I read a question on the readers’ forum of a national newspaper, the kind of page where people write in about their marriages under a made up name and strangers answer.
A woman in her thirties, with a small child. Her husba...
I Reached the Same Rule My Mother Never Said Out Loud
On yojo（養生） — the old word for tending a body over time, which movers now use for the tape on your walls, and what my mother did with it without ever saying it.
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Someone Remembered What I Ate at Her Table Years Ago
I found the word in a guidebook, months before the trip, in the list of restaurants. It was the name of one of them.
Nuchigusui. ぬちぐすい
I read it twice because the sound was new to me, and I have spent most of my adult life with Japanese...
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How you speak. How you move. How you listen. In Japan, each has invisible rules no one wrote down. I'm a writer in Tokyo, a former Japanese language teacher. Every issue, I take one thing Japan has left unsaid and say it, carefully, in English.
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