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To email in Japanese, take a layer cake of etiquette and stuff it with meaning

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By Daniel Morales
Special To The Japan Times

Dec 12, 2016

Last in a two-part series

While writing 手紙 (tegami, letters) in Japanese may be intimidating, メール (尘ē谤耻, emails) give nonnative speakers very few excuses for not keeping up our correspondence with Japanese friends.

Not only do you not have to go to the 郵便局 (测ū产颈苍办测辞办耻, post office) and not spend money on 封筒 (蹿ū迟ō, envelopes) and 切手 (kitte, stamps), you also don’t have to remember how to write the kanji: Just let the パソコン (pasokon, computer) or 携帯 (keitai, mobile phone) take care of it for you.

Amid the heat and humidity in Japan, a good night’s sleep is growing increasingly elusive without the heavy use of air conditioning.

Summer has arrived in Japan and so have hot sleepless nights

By Tomoko Otake

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.

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For many people, utility poles and power lines have become such a familiar part of Japan’s landscape that they often go unnoticed.

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By Alex K.T. Martin

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