When reading the small 'tsu,' shorten the preceding vowel slightly and then start with the sound of the subsequent consonant.

Then they are hiragana. It’s like a cursive ... I don’t know what I mean. So, there are five basic vowels in Japanese. A, E, I, O, U, A. Things have been A, E, I, O, U. But they never say A. Or O, or ...

Japanese cities each have their own guides on how to dispose of rubbish. In Fukushima, rubbish bags have to be placed at collection points every morning by 0830 - but cannot be left out from the ...

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Japanese artists Iwasa Matabei (1578–1650) and Takashi Murakami, though separated by centuries, converge in a singular, uncanny moment in Gagosian’s latest exhibition: “Japanese Art History ...

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