Newsweek picks Fukuoka as one of World’s Top Boomtowns
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| We’re a little behind the times on this one, but Fukuoka was recently selected by Newsweek International Edition as one of the world’s top “boom towns”, which sounds exciting…
New JET Programme participants coming!
| July/August is the season for new JET Programme participants to arrive in Japan, and this year there are scheduled to be more than 1,500 of them coming! At least…
It’s nice to be popular: A search result analysis
| Google seems to like us! For some reason, we’re ranked very highly for some topics that we probably shouldn’t be… Here’s a quick sampling. (All results current as of…
GenkiJACS’ new dorms!
| Details are already up on the accommodation pages of our site, but we though it might be good to mention here too that we’ve recently acquired the use of…
Our Favorite Japanese Movie: Casshern
| 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…