💡 Commonly Misunderstood
海外で誤解されがち。正しく説明できると価値が高い
527 entries (page 9 of 9)Tap a title to open the full entry: three lengths of English explanation, the questions people actually ask, ready-made phrases and audio.
- 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 pachinkoパチンコthe gambling that legally is not gambling
- 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 gaikokujin okotowari外国人お断りwhy some businesses refuse foreign customers, and what the law does and does not say
- 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 genpatsu to saikado原発と再稼働what happened to Japan's reactors after 2011, and where policy stands now
- 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 shogakukin奨学金the word that means scholarship but usually means student loan
- 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 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
- Onsen & BathAdvanced konyoku混浴a mixed-sex bath, now rare
- Onsen & BathAdvanced senshitsu泉質types of hot spring water
- Onsen & BathAdvanced doroyu泥湯a hot spring bath with natural mud in the water
- Onsen & BathAdvanced toji湯治staying at a hot spring to recover
- 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 gunkanjima軍艦島the abandoned coal island off Nagasaki
- PlacesAdvanced Tottori sakyu鳥取砂丘the large coastal dunes on the Japan Sea, often mistaken for a desert
- PlacesAdvanced mozu furuichi kofun百舌鳥・古市古墳群the giant keyhole tombs you cannot go inside
- Pop CultureAdvanced aidoruアイドルthe Japanese idol system
- Pop CultureAdvanced bokaroidoボーカロイドsinging voice synthesizer
- Pop CultureAdvanced meido kissaメイド喫茶maid cafe
- Pop CultureAdvanced enka演歌sentimental Japanese ballads
- Pop CultureAdvanced shinya anime深夜アニメlate-night anime
- Pop CultureAdvanced dojinshi to komike同人誌とコミケself-published fan comics and Comiket
- ShintoAdvanced kokka shinto国家神道the state administration of shrines from 1868 to 1945
- 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 shinbutsu shugo神仏習合the long blending of Shinto and Buddhism
- ShintoAdvanced misogi禊purifying yourself with water
- Work CultureAdvanced nemawashi and ringi根回しと稟議how decisions actually get made
- Work CultureAdvanced shanai shitsugyo社内失業being kept on payroll with no real work to do
- Work CultureAdvanced shushin koyo終身雇用lifetime employment
- Work CultureAdvanced shukko出向being loaned to another company
- Work CultureAdvanced taishoku daiko退職代行services that quit your job for you
- Work CultureAdvanced tanshin funin単身赴任transferring without the family
- Work CultureAdvanced teinen定年と再雇用mandatory retirement age and rehiring
- Work CultureAdvanced shimagata desuku島型デスクthe open office facing each other