Our Favorite Japanese Movie: Casshern
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| We’d like to take a short break from our hectic schedule of updates to this blog (did we manage even a single entry this week? No???) for a little…
Thinking in Japanese Numbers: “man”
| It takes a long time of living with the Japanese counting system to be able to be truly comfortable with it, because it has one small but fundamental change…
“X or more”, or “More than X”?
| One of the problems junior translators always have in Japan is the difference between the phrases “X or more” and “more than X”. In Japanese, there are 3 kanji…
GenkiJACS End-of-an-Era Party!
| No, we’re not closing! July is the season for JET Programme participants who’ve finished their contracts to up and leave (as well as time to say goodbye to Tovy,…
News, Omnibus Edition!
| We’re back, after an extended hiatus! It’s been a busy couple of months for us, and we’re sorry for not having updated the blog during that time. Here’s your…
Thoughts from a Former Student
| Vladimir Rizikov, a student who studied with us last winter from Baruch College, City University of New York, wrote a very nice article about his experience for his college…
GenkiJACS’ first “goukon”
| Today’s topic is the “goukon” (or gokon, or gookon), a modern-traditional Japanese dating party. “Goukon” is short for “Gouryuu Konpa”. Gouryuu means to come together, or merge. Konpa is…
GenkiJACS is moving!
| It’s confirmed, we will be moving from our current location to a new, much larger, and far fancier school location during the first week of May. Directions to the…
Nagasaki trip
| We took a group of students down to Nagasaki this weekend. It’s just a 2-hour drive, so we made it a day trip, leaving at 9am and getting back…
Indoor snowboarding school trip!
| A couple of weeks ago, GenkiJACS made our inaugural trip to the conveniently located indoor snowboarding arena Big Air, part of the Bayside Place complex in Hakata Bay. A…