What does this Japanese sign mean?
I'm introducing Japanese culture through Japanese signs and billboards
Sunday, May 24, 2009
Q10:YUBINKYOKU
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YUBINKYOKU means a post office. In Japan, post offices provide not only postal service but also banking service and insurance service as in ...
Friday, January 23, 2009
Q9:TAKUHAI
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TAKUHAI, or DEMAE, means home delivery services. In Japan, you can order various kinds of foods such as sushi and pizza on the phone. Almos...
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Q8:Dagashi
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The word "Dagashi" means Japanese cheap snack foods. It consists of two words, "Da" means futile or negligible and ...
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Q7:HORUMON
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HORUMON stands for HORUMON-YAKI . HORUMON means "offal" and YAKI means "burned" or "grilled", so the word HORU...
Sunday, January 18, 2009
Q6:YU(SENTO)
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YU means a SENTO , which is a Japanese public bath. SENTO has become common in the Edo period (1603-1867) and even now there are thousands o...
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Q5:100-YEN SHOP
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100-YEN SHOP is a Japanese variety store where you can buy almost all of the goods at a hundred yen(about a dollar). DAISO , the largest 10...
Friday, January 16, 2009
Q4:MANGA-KISSA
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MANGA-KISSA( manga cafe ) is a combination of two Japanese words MANGA , a Japanese comic book, and KISSA, a cafe. And it means a place wher...
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