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Why bilingual literature is needed in a place like Japan

Estimates put the number of bilingual Japanese people at 10%, which makes translating literature all the more important. | GETTY IMAGES

Estimates put the number of bilingual Japanese people at 10%, which makes translating literature all the more important. | GETTY IMAGES

By Eric Margolis
Contributing writer

May 5, 2023

Nagoya – According to experts, there are a variety of benefits in being able to speak 二ヶ国語 (nikakokugo, in two languages). Or, in other words, in being バイリンガル (bairingaru, bilingual).

Bilingual children tend to have improved . Other studies have found , and even .

And while there are approximately — 43% of the world’s population — 日本は概ね単一言語の国だ (Nihon wa ōmune tanitsugengo no kuni da, Japan is by and large a monolingual nation).

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.

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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

Why Japan’s utility poles won’t be disappearing anytime soon

By Alex K.T. Martin

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