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A Critical Assessment of the Marugoto: The Language and Culture of Japan Series of Course-books [PDF]
This paper is an introduction to and a critical assessment of “Marugoto” course-books comprised of 9 volumes for elementary and intermediate education of Japanese language which is provided by “The Japan Foundation” based on the standards of this ...
Farzaneh Moradi
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This overview of the Japanese legal system, for a forthcoming third edition of the 'Elgar Encylopedia of Comparative Law' (Jaakko Husa, Madalena Narciso, Jan Smits and Catherine Valcke, eds), first sketches Japan’s rich legal history. Foreign influences came first from China, then mostly European law from the 19th century, overlaid by American law from
Abe, Masaki, Nottage, Luke R.
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Do Sibilants Fly? Evidence from a Sound Symbolic Pattern in Pokémon Names
Ancient writers, including Socrates and the Upanishads, argued that sibilants are associated with the notions of wind, air and sky. From modern perspectives, these statements can be understood as an assertion about sound symbolism, i.e., systematic ...
Kawahara Shigeto +2 more
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Ainu–Japanese Bi-directional Neural Machine Translation: A Step Towards Linguistic Preservation of Ainu, An Under-Resourced Indigenous Language in Japan [PDF]
This study presents a groundbreaking approach to preserving the Ainu language, recognized as critically endangered by UNESCO, by developing a bi-directional neural machine translation (MT) system between Ainu and Japanese.
So Miyagawa
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Picking Through Our Baggage: A Duoethnography of Japanese L2 Learning
Across our lifelong learning journeys, we encounter countless positive and negative experiences that come to shape our evolving perspectives. As language learning can certainly be viewed as a lifelong endeavor, this accrued emotional “baggage” (Falout et
Phillip A. Bennett, Daniel Hooper
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SPEECH ACT REALIZATION ON HANDBOOK MITIGATION DISASTER IN JAPAN [PDF]
This study investigates speech act strategies used in earthquake mitigation handbooks in Japan, and focuses on finding the type of communicative functions of the speech act strategies used.
Rd. Januar Radhiya +1 more
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Finding a Style for Presenting Shakespeare on the Japanese Stage [PDF]
Japanese productions of Shakespeare’s plays are almost always discussed with exclusive focus upon their visual, musical and physical aspects without any due considerations to their verbal elements.
Minami, Ryuta
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An Approach for Chinese-Japanese Named Entity Equivalents Extraction Using Inductive Learning and Hanzi-Kanji Mapping Table [PDF]
Named Entity Translation Equivalents extraction plays a critical role in machine translation (MT) and cross language information retrieval (CLIR). Traditional methods are often based on large-scale parallel or comparable corpora.
Araki, Kenji +4 more
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Kappa: Makhluk Mitologis Penjaga Sungai dalam Cerita Rakyat Jepang
This article discusses one of the Japanese mythological creatures in the youkai category, the kappa which is believed to be river guardians. Data is taken from the anthology of Japanese folklore Mangga Nippon Mukashi Banashi 101 edited by Sayumi Kawauchi.
Ida Ayu Laksmita Sari
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A 45-year-old Japanese male patient who was diagnosed with celiac disease (CeD) developed type I enteropathy-associated T-cell lymphoma (EATL). In 2013, the patient was admitted to our hospital with worsening of diarrhea and weight loss.
Hiroto Hiraga +15 more
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