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Japan This!

@JapanThis

Writer, educator, guide based in #Tokyo 🇯🇵 I love #Edo, 🌈 #Japan. Also linguistics, culture, travel, art, music. #TeamIenari ⛩

 Tokyo, Japan
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Joined March 2013
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Conjunction4Day ところで = tokorode= By the way ところが = tokoroga = However だから = dakara = that’s why/so/therefore その上 = そのうえ = sonoue = On top of that/Furthermore その結果= そのけっか= sono kekka = As a result つまり= tsumari = in short, in other words
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Gm from Tokyo!!
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おはよ！今日も朝から頑張るで〜！！
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The Japanese government runs campaigns that encourage people to suspect foreign workers of being illegal immigrants or criminals and then wonders why foreign workers don’t wanna come here “Cooperate with legal hiring of foreigners month” It’s a racist dog whistle Cute ☺️ mascot
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Two Crows by Kawanabe Kyōsai, 19th century #nihonga
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The Third Month, from the 1822 series Annual Events in the Yoshiwara
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Actors Bandô Shûka I as Yamanaya Urazato and Bandô Kichiya as Katsumi, from an 1851 kabuki production
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The good news: average private-sector pay for women jumped 2.4% from last year to clear the ¥3 million mark for the first time. Less good: It’s still far below the male average of ¥5.45 million. nippon.com/en/japan-data/h01…

Rise in Private-Sector Salaries: Average Pay for Women Tops ¥3 Million for First Time

Private-sector pay rose in Japan for the first time in three years, pushing the average salary of women to a historic high of more than ¥3 million. However, there remains a large gender pay gap as...

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Rie Takeda@neojaponism11 Oct 2022
📍My Shodo book is available to purchase at all good book retailers! “Shodo” 〜The practice of mindfulness through the ancient art of Japanese calligraphy 〜by Rie Takeda @WatkinsWisdom My book page: shodocalligraphy.com/my-book…
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Hibiscus Flowers Cannot Compare to Her Beauty: Hanamurasaki of the Tamaya, circa early 1820s
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Japan resumes visa-free travel to dozens of countries on Tuesday - in a bid to invigorate the economy amid the yen's slide to a 24-year low. Here's what hotels, airline, economist and tourist say w/ Kentaro Sugiyama @swiftrocky @tomb8man & Ritsuko Shimizu reuters.com/world/asia-pacif…
Japan reopens to tourists with shuttered souvenir shops, hotel staff shortage

Japan reopens to tourists with shuttered souvenir shops, hotel staff shortage

As Japan throws open its doors to visitors this week after more than two years of pandemic isolation, hopes for a tourism boom face tough headwinds amid shuttered shops and a shortage of hospitality...

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Sol Raz@mur_sjelaga7 Oct 2022
#cootercast – at Brooklyn, NY
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Sol Raz@mur_sjelaga7 Oct 2022
#cocktoberfest @JapanThis – at Brooklyn, NY
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Two Women Catching Fireflies, hanging scroll circa 1832
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Geisha Hanging scroll; ink, color, and gold on silk, circa early 1830s
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The Servant's Habit of Competing for Favor, from the series Forty-eight Mannerisms in the Floating World
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Fujikawa: Toyohata of the Sugata-Ebiya, from the early 1820s series A Tôkaidô Board Game of Courtesans: Fifty-three Pairings in the Yoshiwara
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No. 15-8-6, from an untitled series of beauties
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Hatsuhana doing penance under the Tonosawa waterfall #ukiyoe #kuniyoshiutagawa wikiart.org/en/utagawa-kuniy…
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Odawara: The Sakawa River, from the 1830s series Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô Road
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