🗺️ Tour Guide
全国通訳案内士の二次口述の対策に。日本文化を外国語で説明させられる唯一の国家試験
794 entries (page 13 of 14)Tap a title to open the full entry: three lengths of English explanation, the questions people actually ask, ready-made phrases and audio.
- Life EventsAdvanced hakajimai墓じまいclosing a family grave
- MannersAdvanced erebeta no sahoエレベーターの作法who stands where and who presses the buttons
- MannersAdvanced kokyo no ba de no kesho公共の場での化粧why it is frowned on
- MannersAdvanced kamiza上座the seat of honor
- Modern JapanAdvanced Ainuアイヌthe indigenous people of northern Japan, recognized in law in 2019
- Modern JapanAdvanced okusuri techoお薬手帳the personal medication record book
- Modern JapanAdvanced geto boruゲートボールthe team game invented in Japan for children, now played mostly by older people
- Modern JapanAdvanced inkan-shomei印鑑証明the certificate proving your registered seal is genuine
- Modern JapanAdvanced Okinawa no beigun kichi沖縄の米軍基地why most US military facilities in Japan are on one small island
- Modern JapanAdvanced gino jisshu to ikusei shuro技能実習と育成就労the foreign worker program Japan is replacing after years of criticism
- Modern JapanAdvanced kyokasho kentei to rekishi ninshiki教科書検定と歴史認識how Japanese textbooks are approved, and why neighboring countries react
- Modern JapanAdvanced kenketsu献血giving blood in Japan
- Modern JapanAdvanced genpatsu to saikado原発と再稼働what happened to Japan's reactors after 2011, and where policy stands now
- Modern JapanAdvanced kodokushi孤独死dying alone and not being found
- Modern JapanAdvanced koi keisho皇位継承who can become emperor, and how few people qualify
- Modern JapanAdvanced shikei死刑why Japan still has capital punishment, and how it is carried out
- Modern JapanAdvanced juminhyo住民票the address registration that everything else depends on
- Modern JapanAdvanced shogakukin奨学金the word that means scholarship but usually means student loan
- Modern JapanAdvanced taiki jido待機児童children on the waiting list for daycare
- Modern JapanAdvanced doseikon同性婚why Japan has partnership systems in most cities but no legal marriage
- Modern JapanAdvanced nanmin nintei難民認定why Japan recognizes so few refugees, and what changed in 2023
- Modern JapanAdvanced nyukan no shuyo入管の収容how Japan detains foreign nationals facing deportation, and the debate around it
- Modern JapanAdvanced buraku sabetsu部落差別discrimination against people linked to certain communities, based on ancestry alone
- Modern JapanAdvanced Yasukuni Jinja靖国神社the Tokyo shrine for Japan's war dead, and why prime ministers' visits are disputed
- Seasons & NatureAdvanced kokuritsu koen国立公園Japan's national parks, where people live and work inside
- Seasons & NatureAdvanced sangaku shinko山岳信仰worship of mountains
- Seasons & NatureAdvanced jugai獣害crop damage by deer, boar and bears
- Seasons & NatureAdvanced koke苔moss
- Seasons & NatureAdvanced nihon no mizu日本の水Japan's paradox of abundant but scarce water
- Onsen & BathAdvanced insen飲泉drinking hot spring water
- Onsen & BathAdvanced konyoku混浴a mixed-sex bath, now rare
- Onsen & BathAdvanced senshitsu泉質types of hot spring water
- Onsen & BathAdvanced toji湯治staying at a hot spring to recover
- Onsen & BathAdvanced hito秘湯a remote, hard-to-reach hot spring
- Onsen & BathAdvanced reikosen冷鉱泉a cold mineral spring that can still count as an onsen
- PlacesAdvanced Asosan阿蘇山the active volcano in Kyushu with fifty thousand people living inside its caldera
- PlacesAdvanced Kumano Kodo熊野古道the old pilgrimage routes through the mountains south of Osaka
- PlacesAdvanced gunkanjima軍艦島the abandoned coal island off Nagasaki
- PlacesAdvanced Seikan tonneru青函トンネルthe undersea tunnel joining Honshu and Hokkaido
- PlacesAdvanced Shiretoko知床the northeastern peninsula where drift ice reaches its southern limit
- PlacesAdvanced Tottori sakyu鳥取砂丘the large coastal dunes on the Japan Sea, often mistaken for a desert
- PlacesAdvanced Naoshima直島the small island in the Inland Sea turned into a contemporary art site
- PlacesAdvanced mozu furuichi kofun百舌鳥・古市古墳群the giant keyhole tombs you cannot go inside
- Pop CultureAdvanced enka演歌sentimental Japanese ballads
- Pop CultureAdvanced shinya anime深夜アニメlate-night anime
- Pop CultureAdvanced seichi junrei聖地巡礼visiting places from anime
- Pop CultureAdvanced tokusatsu特撮live-action special effects shows
- Pop CultureAdvanced Takarazuka kagekidan宝塚歌劇団the all-female musical theater company
- ShintoAdvanced goshuin御朱印a calligraphic seal stamped at a shrine or temple
- ShintoAdvanced kokka shinto国家神道the state administration of shrines from 1868 to 1945
- ShintoAdvanced sakaki and tamagushi榊と玉串the evergreen branch offered in Shinto rites
- ShintoAdvanced ujigami and ujiko氏神と氏子the local guardian deity and its parishioners
- ShintoAdvanced shikinen sengu式年遷宮rebuilding the shrine every twenty years
- ShintoAdvanced shago社号why shrines are called jingu, taisha or jinja
- ShintoAdvanced shugendo修験道the mountain ascetic tradition and its yamabushi
- ShintoAdvanced norito祝詞the formal prayer read by a priest
- ShintoAdvanced kagura神楽dance offered to the gods
- ShintoAdvanced jinja no kenchiku神社の建築how to read the buildings of a Shinto shrine
- ShintoAdvanced shinbutsu shugo神仏習合the long blending of Shinto and Buddhism
- ShintoAdvanced kannazuki神無月the month the gods are away