Let's look back at some memorable moments and interesting insights from last year.

Your top 4 posts:

• "Happy Cakeday, r/SpeakJapanese! Today you're 9" by u/AutoModerator
• "ハハハ、この文章の語尾は統一されているのか聞いてもいいですか？日本語で書かれたこのニュース記事を、一般の日本人が理解できるでしょうか？"
• "普通の日本人がこの報道を理解できるかどうか、聞いてみてもいいですか？普通の日本人がこの日本語を読めるのか？ ありがとうございました。"
• "この日本語の文章に間違いがないか聞いてもいいですか？普通な日本人はこれらの日本語のセンテンスをわかりを見ますか？ありがとうございます！"

自民党政務調査会会長の高市早苗氏：次期総理大臣を目指す。

チャイナニュース 12月6日号（新華社） 日本放送協会（NHK）の報道によると、現在、自民党政務調査会会長を務める高市早苗さまは、テレビ番組に出演し、岸田文雄首相の後継者になる意向を示したばかり。その一方で、彼女自身は現在、岸田体制の立場を支持していることも強調した。

現在、自民党政務調査会会長の高市早苗さまは、テレビ番組で「岸田文雄首相の後継者に挑戦するかどうか」という質問を受けたことが報道されました。高市早苗さまは、「もちろん」とおっしゃる一方で、「現在、私が岸田体制を支持する立場にあることはよく承知しています」とも強調されていました。

報道によると、自民党の安倍派に戻りたいかどうかについて、高市早苗さまは、"私もそろそろ戻ろうかと思っていますが、まだお誘いはありません "とおっしゃっています。 一方、憲法改正について高市早苗さまは、「憲法改正は必要だが、国会で全会一致で合意し、混乱があってはならない」と述べられました。

既報の通り、9月8日、高市早苗様は自民党総裁選への立候補を正式に表明し、安倍晋三元首相の支援を受けました。日本初の女性総理大臣を目指していたが、9月29日に行われた自民党総裁選では岸田文雄氏に敗れ、党首の座を獲得することはできなかった。

日本の老人が第二次世界大戦の遺物である爆弾をビニール袋に入れて投降したため、1,000人以上が避難しました。

第二次世界大戦の遺物である爆弾が入ったビニール袋を持って警察署に入ってきた70代の日本人男性。これにおびえた警察は、約1,500人の警察署とその周辺を緊急避難させたが、死傷者は出なかった。

22日の日本のウェブサイト「スカイニュース24時間放送」によると、このシーンは18日に北海道旭川市で発生したものです。残された爆弾は、直径約8cm、長さ約28cm。その後、陸上自衛隊が現場に急行してレガシーボムを調査したところ、ボム内の爆薬がなくなっており、危険ではないことが判明した。

報告書によると、この老人は40年以上前に親戚の家を解体した際にレガシーボムを見つけ、それ以来、屋根裏に保管していたという。高齢のため、死ぬ前に第二次世界大戦の爆弾を適切に処理したいと考え、警察に引き渡すことにしたのだ。

この高齢者には前科はありませんでした。この報告書では、この老人が前述の行為で処罰されるかどうかは言及されていない。

その翌日、北海道小樽市の工事現場で、さらに10個以上の第二次世界大戦中に使用された爆弾が発見されました。スカイニュース24時間放送」のサイトによると：経年劣化によりヒューズが破損しているものや、レガシーボムの多くは不安定で、ちょっとした衝撃でも爆発する可能性があるため、取り扱いには注意が必要とのことです。

中新ネットの11月15日のニュース

日本放送協会（NHK）の報道によると - 現地時間15日午後、福島市の日本鉄道会社(JR)の福島の駅で西口所はいっしょに人を傷つける事件が発生します。現場の負傷する情況はすでにもとは報道の中からの1人の女性と1人の男性が刃物に傷つけられて1名の高齢の女性が1名の男性に刃物で突かれて腹部を傷つけ(損ね)るのに変更します。現在のところ、犯罪容疑者はすでに逮捕させられて、負傷する女性の意識ははっきりしているです。

現地時間15日午後4時の頃、福島市の日本鉄道会社(JR)の福島の駅の西口所は1件の人を傷つける事件が発生しました。事件が発生した後に、日本が放送して力を合わせる（NHK）の後続報道が語りができます：1名の80数歳の女性は1名の刀を持つ男子が傷を突いた後にに、緊急に病院に送るに。そして、その女性の命は当面、危険ではありません。警察が容疑者を逮捕するのを見た現場の一般人は、次のように語った：“私は刃物の同じ物体に似ていて落ちてを見て、近くの1名の女性の腹部は血痕があって、おそらく突かれて傷つけ(損ね)ました。”

現地の警察側は表します：“凶行(暴力)を行う者とその時場の別の1名の男性で故意の傷害罪に嫌疑がかかって逮捕させられます。警察側は更に調査を行っています。”

Let's look back at some memorable moments and interesting insights from last year.

Your top 10 posts:

• "Thought y'all might find this relatable (oc)" by u/TryingTimesComics
• "What's the Kanji on this tattoo I can't figure it out?" by u/LeagueOfBourbon
• "Interested in learning conversational japanese?" by u/chyeaaron808
• "Asking strangers questions in Japanese" by u/anyuwen
• "Anyone looking for a free tutor?" by u/chyeaaron808
• "Clubhouse for speaking Japanese" by u/Mari_japanese
• "N5-N4 Japanese Podcast for beginners / See how much you can understand:)" by u/shunttttty
• "tips for beginner japanese learners" by u/chyeaaron808
• "(Cheatsheet) Ultimate guide to all commonly-used Japanese particles (188 examples)" by u/rutherz34
• "How To Study Japanese Grammar Effectively" by u/chyeaaron808

Hi guys! I made a New podcast for beginners!
This is made for JLPT N5-N3 level;)
This podcast is called Oyasumi Japanese with Shun.
YouTube: https://youtu.be/GPidN8m1z7Q
Podcast: https://redcircle.com/shows/oyasumi-japanese-with-shun
I made it for people between Genki1 - Genki 2. Also it's for before you go to sleep, so you can relax and improve your Japanese comprehension skills!
Enjoy the episode! and have fun learning Japanese!

https://youtu.be/RB6K6i12efM ...done, thank you all

https://www2.nhk.or.jp/archives/chronicle/pg/page010-01.cgi?keyword=%E6%97%A5%E6%9C%AC%E3%81%AE%E6%B5%81%E8%A1%8C%E6%AD%8C

The show was a 100 popular Japanese songs at your request originally aired in 1992 -- It didn't just include songs hot for that year, instead it compared all Japanese songs up to that year for its countdown, which is significant and why I would like this list to be fully transcribed, please. This was taken from an old VHS and the top and bottom boarder for some of the footage may have been cut off during the analog to digital conversion...There may also be some days missing from what I was able to gather

Due to copyright, I cannot upload the full show with music videos (part 2 incoming if requested), and even then, the show or the collection skip some songs from being played for all of the 100 listed songs listed. Japan has strict copyright laws that prevent videos and music from being played on youtube, which would block the upload completely. The footage is interesting because there are rare performances that are not music videos mixed into the show.

Some of the songs on the list are obvious while others are harder to figure out what they are.

If anyone who can read/listen and list out all the Japanese songs on the board, that would be amazing and I would be in your gratitude. too bad i couldn't use wild card characters when trying to look up half transcribed japanese

Contextually, the board only listed the title and sometimes you have to match it with the artist from that era. Another difficulty is trying to find the CDQ version of the song on youtube for that artist-song pairing because copyright restricts a lot of songs off youtube to the point that you have to settle with karaoke or cover versions, so it is a bit of work after transcribing the board to match it with the actual song and artist.

Anything helps. I already shazamed/OCR'ed by frame most of the available footage with matching songs and now I am going after the rest of the songs that didn't play during the countdown show. To show my end of the dedication, I will list out all of the songs the show played that I managed to Shazam (some of the live performances are harder to shazam).

Obvious song titles from the board, OCR'ed, (sometimes the title is generic and I don't know who is the artist is) & Songs played during the show:

leftover songs I found from shazaming, based on what caught my ear:

• random anime OST unrelated to this post like Gundam Wing and Neon Genesis Evangelion
• everybody sang this closing song after a music ceremony that everyone seemed to know the lyrics to

..simply searching the song title with the words "japanese song" sometimes doesn't work contextually on youtube but works better on google search. Remember that the year was 1994 before Japanese music decided to cater more songs to Anime and the western audience by trying to be a stereotype of itself or doing bad iterations of American Pop cover songs. Some of the songs on the countdown are offbeat and not catchy at all while others I am completely floored about how beautiful the melody sounds until I realize the lyrics are overwhelmingly sad, etc.

For Japanese OCR (https://www.i2ocr.com/free-online-japanese-ocr and https://convertio.co/ocr/japanese/ work differently due to lighting sensitivity), I would have screenshotted clips to the software that as well, but given that I am not great at the language in terms of nitpicking the OCR for transcription errors and that the footage is grainy, I need an Japanese expert to help me transcribe. The footage is grainy and it needs a lot of context from the hosts' conversation or the year to figure out the rest of the songs not played but were listed on the board in 1994.

Another easier way (if available) would be if there was a website that stored the show's list of top 100 songs on a database over time (what is the name of the show?) and if someone can direct that list to me somewhere already documented online (via perhaps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_singles_in_Japan or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oricon_Singles_Chart different from the show), that would be great too, Thanks.

何者かを覚えなさい。

for a friends tattoo, should read “Remember who you are.”

Remembering new words can be difficult. Remembering new words in an entirely different language can be an even greater challenge. Not to mention that Japanese is notorious for being a language that takes time to learn for English speakers. (Especially as the alphabet and cultural approach to the language is so different.)

There is, however, a trick to remembering vocabulary, grammar, and kanji long-term without putting too much time in. (In other words, without having to drill vocabulary by writing it down twenty times on a piece of paper.) This trick is actually one you’ve probably already come across before…

The application on the phone will help you very well. As long as you have free time, you only need to study 5-10 minutes and you can learn more vocabulary. There are many mobile apps for you to choose from. For example, I am using Langwid (link IOS) because it displays vocabulary on the screen as a widget and learns inside the application with flashcards.

A lot of people around the world ask questions about Japan and Japanese culture.

There is r/AskAnAmerican to learn about America, r/AskAnAustralian for Australia, r/AskARussian, r/AskAGerman and so on. However there is no large subreddit to cover all topics around Japan, aimed towards people from outside the country.

We are looking to find kind Japanese redditors to build a nice community to answer the questions and enjoy an authentic cultural exchange experience with people of other nationalities.

Join r/AskAJapanese and show Reddit why everyone loves Japan!

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We make this announcement on the main Japanese subreddits and we are grateful to the moderators granting this post.

Do you know how many times a day you turn on your phone? One study found it to be 110 times a day. So you should take advantage of this to learn Japanese vocabulary.

Every time you turn on the phone, the home screen will prompt a word for you to review. What you need now is to install the LangWid app: Learn Japanese widget that allows you to set the display of words on the phone screen.

In addition, this application also allows you to learn vocabulary by topic, JLPT level, with flashcards that are easy to remember. Try it on your phone (link IOS/android)

The answer is actually just “as many as you can.” Even just one new word a day is still progress. This might sound ridiculous to you as it did to me when I first heard it but there's some real truth to it. Besides being so easy that you can't help but stay consistent, this takes advantage of exponential growth. The more words you know, the easier it becomes to learn a new one. Thus, for each word that you learn, it'll become easier to learn the next word.

If you learn vocabulary regularly, regularly every day, the effectiveness will increase many times. You should use a mobile app to support it, for example, Learn Japanese vocabulary (link IOS). Study every day when you have free time.

Today, learning a language using a mobile app is very popular. Simply because it is very convenient and you can study anywhere. Furthermore, the app uses intelligent learning methods.

If you want to learn vocabulary in Japanese, try the following application (link IOS/Android). It will help you quickly remember vocabulary thanks to flashcards. Simultaneously, the widget feature will help you learn new words right on the screen. This means that every time you turn on your phone, you will recall a word.

Hello, I'm Long, living in Japan for over 4 years. Same to you, I had to learn Japanese from scratch (Now I'm JLPT N2). I know it's very difficult to remember Kanji and grammar especially for JLPT N3 to N1. Today, thanks to the help of my Japanese teachers, I've created an app to stick every Japanese word and phrase of JLPT N1->N5 on my iPhone home screen. It will be helpful since you often look at the phone's home screen many times/day. My app is Langwid - Learn Japanese widget

If you want to try it, download it here (for iOS), it's new so I welcome every comment:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/langwid-learn-japanese-widget/id1557218460

I hope my contribution will help you to improve your Japanese skill.

Idk if they're good since I'm no japanese but I am kinda chinese so there's that. Anyways

北川辺市 - Kitakawabe

平森市 - Hiramori

梅木子市 - Umekiko

山露市 - Yamaro

矢田山市 - Yadayama

Hope they're good or at least mediocre.

Hey All,
For the past year I have been developing a Japanese Speaking iOS app to encourage myself to speak Japanese more often. However, I would appreciate for others to use it and give their feedback so that I can make updates that other people would also enjoy using.

There is no ads, add-ons or subscriptions:
https://apps.apple.com/np/app/blabit/id1504259679

Blabit: Japanese is basically a Japanese Spoken Flash Cards App.You can add phrases to sets by speaking them, once added, you can level-up your phrases by speaking the phrase correctly and in a natural time. The higher you level your phrases, the less you will see them.

It also developed with Apple proprietary software. so once downloaded, the app doesn’t need the internet to use the voice recognition technology for iOS 13 and up.

Please Note:

• To add phrases into the app you need to be able to speak Japanese.
• When adding phrases you can speak slowly to make sure it is correct.

Again, I would love to hear everyone’s feedback. To give feedback, leave a comment here, private message me or submit your feedback within the app via google form.

edit: Please use the app in Light Mode, there was a small bug in the app that made the tutorial unviewable in darkmode. A hotfix has already been sent to Apple but it will take time for them to approve it.

Hi there !

Are you interested in using Tabletop Roleplaying Game (D&D3.5 or Call of Cthulhu) to improve your Japanese conversations skills ?

We currently are 2 (French) players plus one (Japanese) game master who are looking for one or two extra players to start a table.

We plan to have it hosted on Sunday (frequency to be defined):

GMT: 11am

Paris: 1pm

New York: 7am

New Delhi: 4:30pm

Tokyo: 8pm

Let me know if you want to join.

So I’m an American who has studied Japanese on and off for over a decade. I’ve never been more than a 上手 quality speaker, but I can understand at around a college sophomore/junior level. I have little experience speaking Japanese with native speakers outside of academic or customer-employee interactions, but I do play several video games - notably Monster Hunter: Rise - where I can play with Japanese players online and communicate through voice or text chat. Consequently, as a foreigner, how polite/causal should my Japanese be in Internet spaces?

My teachers have always told me that, as an American, I should lean towards being more formal where I can because my status as an outsider automatically puts some distance between me and a native Japanese speaker. I’m not sure if that norm still applies online though (especially since Japanese internet culture is just as degenerate as ours in the west), so feedback is definitely appreciated! Big thanks.

皆さん、お願いします、静乃をとても憎んでください！！！彼女は主人公に好きと言ったのに、彼女は気が変わった 、そうして、彼女は彼をもう好きじゃない！！彼女は酷いだよ！！！彼女は嫌われているに違いない ！！！ https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm37386050

While visiting Japan, I had problems when using the sentence structures I was learning in the classroom. One of the first questions I learned was: 「すみません、[place]はどこですか？」 ("Excuse me, where is [place]?"). I assumed this would be super useful in Japan, but I discovered that when I used it, people would shy away. Later, I learned why and that there were a few better ways to ask questions to strangers. I decided to write this article explaining them: https://blakestephenanderson.medium.com/how-to-ask-strangers-a-question-in-japan-504d29abaf30

Is it possible for someone to tell me what my name means in Japanese? It’s Samson. If you have time too could you do my middle name “Khan” as well. Thank you!