🗺️ 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
797 entries (page 8 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.
- MannersStandard meishi kokan名刺交換exchanging business cards
- Modern JapanStandard kuru bizuクールビズthe summer campaign to work without a jacket and tie
- Modern JapanStandard jenda gyappuジェンダーギャップwhy Japan ranks low on gender equality despite high education levels
- Modern JapanStandard shatta-shotengaiシャッター商店街a shopping street where most storefronts are permanently shuttered
- Modern JapanStandard hazado mappuハザードマップthe map showing how bad flooding or a disaster could get at your address
- Modern JapanStandard baria furiバリアフリーaccessibility in Japan, and the yellow tactile paving it invented
- Modern JapanStandard pointo keizaiポイント経済why everyone in Japan is asked for a point card
- Modern JapanStandard mai nanbaマイナンバーthe national identification number
- Modern JapanStandard yakuzaヤクザorganized crime in Japan, and why the offices have nameplates
- Modern JapanStandard hikikomori引きこもりlong-term withdrawal from society
- Modern JapanStandard karoshi過労死death from overwork, and the law Japan wrote because of it
- Modern JapanStandard kaigo介護long-term care, and the insurance system behind it
- Modern JapanStandard gaikokujin rodosha外国人労働者how Japan brings in workers from abroad
- Modern JapanStandard kakutei shinkoku確定申告filing your own tax return
- Modern JapanStandard kampo漢方traditional herbal medicine as practiced in Japan
- Modern JapanStandard kisho keiho気象警報Japan's tiered warning system and what each level means
- Modern JapanStandard akiya空き家empty houses left standing across Japan
- Modern JapanStandard keikaku unkyu計画運休shutting down the trains before the storm arrives
- Modern JapanStandard kenko-shindan健康診断the annual health checkup nearly every worker gets
- Modern JapanStandard koban交番the neighborhood police box
- Modern JapanStandard zaitaku kinmu在宅勤務why remote work spread and then shrank again in Japan
- Modern JapanStandard kyoshujo自動車教習所driving school, the required path to a license
- Modern JapanStandard shaken車検the mandatory vehicle inspection
- Modern JapanStandard shuwa手話Japanese Sign Language
- Modern JapanStandard josei no shugyo女性の就業where women's employment in Japan stands
- Modern JapanStandard shohizei消費税Japan's sales tax, its rises, and the reduced rate
- Modern JapanStandard shokuhin sanpuru食品サンプルthe plastic food in restaurant windows
- Modern JapanStandard jinko gensho to kaso人口減少と過疎a shrinking, aging country
- Modern JapanStandard takuhaibin宅配便と再配達home delivery and the problem of repeated attempts
- Modern JapanStandard tenji burokku点字ブロックthe yellow tactile paving on the ground
- Modern JapanStandard hinan kunren避難訓練the evacuation drills everyone has done
- Modern JapanStandard bun'en分煙where you can and cannot smoke in Japan
- Modern JapanStandard hogei捕鯨why Japan resumed commercial whaling, and how little whale is actually eaten
- Modern JapanStandard takarakuji宝くじthe public lottery, and why the prize is tax-free
- Modern JapanStandard majan麻雀the four-player tile game, and where it sits legally
- Modern JapanStandard tachinomi立ち飲みthe standing bar, where you drink fast and cheap
- Seasons & NatureStandard Okinawa and Hokkaido沖縄と北海道の気候the two ends of Japan's climate
- Seasons & NatureStandard umi to gyogyo海と漁業how Japan eats from the ocean
- Seasons & NatureStandard kiku菊chrysanthemum
- Seasons & NatureStandard kyureki旧暦the old lunisolar calendar Japan used until 1872
- Seasons & NatureStandard icho銀杏the ginkgo tree
- Seasons & NatureStandard hotaru蛍fireflies
- Seasons & NatureStandard sakura zensen桜前線the cherry blossom front
- Seasons & NatureStandard ajisai紫陽花hydrangea
- Seasons & NatureStandard akisame zensen秋雨前線the autumn rain front that brings weeks of gray, wet weather
- Seasons & NatureStandard shochikubai松竹梅pine, bamboo and plum
- Seasons & NatureStandard shinrin no kuni森林の国how much of Japan is forest
- Seasons & NatureStandard sugi杉the Japanese cedar
- Seasons & NatureStandard yukikaki雪かきclearing snow as daily work
- Seasons & NatureStandard yukiguni雪国Japan's heavy snow regions
- Seasons & NatureStandard kawa to hashi川と橋Japan's short steep rivers
- Seasons & NatureStandard senjo kosuitai線状降水帯the linear rainband that causes Japan's worst flash flooding
- Seasons & NatureStandard tanada棚田terraced rice paddies cut into mountain slopes
- Seasons & NatureStandard take竹bamboo
- Seasons & NatureStandard mushi no koe o kiku虫の声を聴くenjoying the sound of autumn insects
- Seasons & NatureStandard asagao朝顔the morning glory
- Seasons & NatureStandard nihon retto no chikei日本列島の地形a long mountainous chain of islands
- Seasons & NatureStandard ume梅Japanese apricot blossom
- Seasons & NatureStandard satoyama里山the managed woodland between the village and the mountain
- Onsen & BathStandard onsen to tatu温泉とタトゥーwhy tattoos can get you refused at a bath