From around August 7, the Japanese exchange postcards to ask how each other is doing. [和訳が後にあります]
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A Winter Entertainment / 冬の楽しみ
Some people in the olden days enjoyed going out in the dead of the winter to see fields of dead leaves.
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A Happy New Year!: The Beginning-Of-The-Year Greeting / 年頭の挨拶
For about a week ON AND AFTER January First, we say “Akemashite omedetoo gozaimasu!” It’s a special greeting for this occasion.
Here we discuss the meaning and a couple of words related to it.
“A Happy New Year!” The Year-End Greeting / 年末の挨拶「よいお年を！」
Thank you for the great year of 2019! A Happy New Year! “Yoi O-Toshi o!”: The Year-End Greeting It’s already…
Continue ReadingThe Day of Good Couples: November 22 / 11月22日はいい夫婦の日
和文は英文の下です。The Japanese text is at the bottom of this page. November 22 is “The Day of Good Couples or いい夫婦(ふうふ)の日…
Continue ReadingThe Greenville Bon Dance Festival (3) The Three Waves of Japanese Investments in Greenville, SC / グリーンビルのお盆祭り(3) 日本から南カロライナ州グリーンビルへ、投資の三つの波
和わ文ぶんはこのページの下したの方ほうにあります。Scroll down for the Japanese translation with furigana. This is the last of the three posts: “The Greenville Bon Dance…
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The Greenville Bon Dance Festival (2) Why in Greenville? / グリーンビルのお盆祭り(2) なぜグリーンビルに？
ふりがなつき和わ文ぶんはこのページの下したの方ほうにあります。/ Scroll down for the Japanese translation. This is the second of three posts: “The Greenville Bon Dance Festival”. Click…
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The Greenville Bon Dance Festival (1) August 24, 2019
ふりがなつき和文(わぶん)はここをクリックしてください。Please click here for the Japanese translation with furigana. 1. The 2019 Greenville Bon Dance Festival On August 24, we…
Continue ReadingO-bon Festival / お盆まつり
During the three days of obon, our dear deceased are believed to visit us from “the other world”.
Continue ReadingA Class Observation Day / 参観日
和文は英文の下にあります。/ The Japanese translation is on the bottom of this page. Mother’s Day is the second Sunday of May in…
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