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Jun
Maria’s Japan Trip
Topic: Japan 2004
Maria returned from her Japan trip last Friday, and I just got around to downloading the pictures she took on our digital camera. It was a business trip, so she didn’t spend a whole lot of time taking pictures (she was conducting interviews for a research project), but we’ve got a few to show you. Don’t worry, we’ll take more than enough pictures when we take our vacation trip to Japan in a couple of weeks!
I should explain the picture of the sign that’s written in garbled English: this sort of thing is a common sight in Japan, and it’s called “Japlish” (aka “Engrish”). In general, Japanese are very shy about trying to speak English, as they don’t want to embarass themselves by not speaking it correctly, but they seem to have no problem writing horrible English with wild abandon. Check out engrish.com for some hilarous examples.
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