HELLO JAPAN SIX (Japanese Edition)

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As with Chinese numerals, there exists in Japanese a separate set of kanji for numerals called daiji (大字) used in legal and financial documents to prevent unscrupulous individuals from adding a stroke or two, turning a one into a two or a three. The formal numbers are identical to the Chinese formal numbers except for minor stroke variations. Today, the numbers for one, two, three, and ten are written only in their formal form in legal documents (the numbers 4 to 9 as well as 100, 1000 and 10000 are written identically to the common ones, cf. table below). [3] These numbers' common forms can be changed to a higher value by adding strokes (1 and 2 were explained above, while 3 can be changed to 5, and 10 to 1000). In some cases, the digit 1 is explicitly written like 壱百壱拾 for 110, as opposed to 百十 in common writing. In truth, Japan’s filmmaking history is uniquely creative, moving from the silent era to its post-war golden age to the 1960s New Wave to the anime explosion of the ‘80s, all the way up to the current renaissance spearheaded by Hirokazu Kore-eda, Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Mamoru Hosoda. Among this list of the greatest Japanese movies of all-time, you’ll find those films most associated with the country: Kurosawa’s feudal epics, Miyazaki’s deeply soulful animations and Ozu’s quietly powerful domestic dramas. But there’s also Kenji Mizoguchi’s pioneering silent works, Seijun Suzuki’s pop-art Yakuza thrillers, spine-chilling ghost stories like Ringu , boundary-pushing social satires like Battle Royale , sensual romances like In the Realm of the Senses and, of course, Godzilla . Explore Kanazawa on our 11 day Cycle Japan tour or on our 10 day Essential Japan adventure. 5. Hiroshima The second Japanese six-cylinder icon, in its most popular, turbocharged form was initially placed under the engine bay of a luxury sedan called Toyota Aristo (the JDM equivalent of the Lexus GS), but it gained worldwide recognition for powering the A80 Supra RZ (aka Turbo). is used to count flat objects, like paper. ~回 is used to express the number of times, like the number of times in a week you workout. ~階 is used to count the number of floors in a building. Japanese Grammar for Numbers

The biggest difference is that the big numbers are divided by units of 4 (or 10,000) rather than 3 (1,000). So once you get past 10,000, it can be a bit confusing to think of one million as “one hundred ten-thousands” at first. The first 10 days are more like the Native Japanese counting system, but… not quite. It’s best to just memorize them. These bombings, along with depleted armed forces and the looming threat of invasion from the Soviet Union, led the Empire of Japan to surrender unconditionally to the Allies in September 1945. You’re all set! You’ve had your crash course for numbers in Japanese, and now you can smooth talk your way through the many number systems.As for zero, the Japanese word is 零 ( rei), but it’s more common to say it like in English. ゼロ ( zero) is most often used, or まる ( maru) which means “circle” and is like saying “oh” in English instead of zero. Japanese Numbers 1-100: How to Count to 100 in Japanese

Baseball is the undisputed top sport in Japan, and is jokingly called Japan's national sport (ironically, Japan actually has no officially recognized national sport—not even sumo or kendo). Japanese has two systems of numerals for decimal fractions. They are no longer in general use, but are still used in some instances such as batting and fielding averages of baseball players, winning percentages for sports teams, and in some idiomatic phrases such as 五分五分の勝負 ( gobugobu no shōbu, 'fifty-fifty chance'), and when representing a rate or discount. The bu fractions are also used when talking about fevers—for example 九度二分 ( kudonibu) for 9 and two parts—referring to the temperature 39.2°C. For one person, you say ひとり ( hitori), and for two people you say ふたり ( futari). Any number after that is the Sino-Japanese number system followed by ~人, such as 三人 ( sannin, “three people”). Japanese Counters for Long Objects If you have a battery-operated hearing aid, it’s a good idea to bring extra batteries or familiarise yourself with the Japanese equivalent of the batteries it takes. Saying Japanese phone numbers out loud is pretty straightforward. You always read the numbers as single digits, then you say “の” ( no) wherever the dash is.The general beauty standards in Japan include flawless skin, a petite figure, skinny legs, smooth and fair skin, and a quiet personality. However, these standards are unrealistic in today’s modern world. Everybody is beautiful in their own way. The other thing to take note of is that some numbers conjugate differently with certain counters. The ones to look out for are 1, 3, 6, and 8.

We definitely need to be involved in regular international competition, otherwise we cannot expect to maintain consistently strong sides. Counters specify what kind of object you’re counting in Japanese. Japanese has many, many forms of counters for everything, from long objects to machinery.

Japan at a glance

In addition, race-spec GT-Rs with purposely-build engines based on the RB26 were very successful for many years, while the 2JZ was never used officially by Toyota in its motorsport programs, as the carmaker preferred to race four-cylinder or V8-powered Supras. The home of temples, palaces and the Gion district (where geisha live and work), Kyoto is also where you’ll find the famed Fushimi Inari Taisha Shrine. From Honda’s K20, Mitsubishi’s 4G63, or Mazda’s 13B, some of the best, most innovative ICEs were developed in Japan. But, riding high atop every JDM enthusiast’s list is either Nissan’s RB26DETT or Toyota’s 2JZ-GTE, two of the most epic performance-oriented six-cylinders ever built anywhere in the world. I N THE ECONOMIST’s 2022 glass-ceiling index, an annual measure of the role and influence of women in the workforce in 29 countries, only South Korea scored lower than Japan. The World Economic Forum’s 2022 Global Gender Gap Report, which also factors in political representation, ranked Japan 116th out of 146 countries. That would have been little surprise to Japanese women, who are used to living in a strict patriarchal society. The government aspires to create a society “in which all women shine”, a slogan that seems unintentionally ironic, since Japanese women have always lived in the shadow of men. Murasaki Shikibu, a lady-in-waiting of the imperial court in the 11th century who wrote “The Tale of Genji”, thought to be the first novel in history, described the discrimination she suffered. She wrote in her diary that her father would often sigh and say, “If only you were a boy.” Such a sentiment is familiar to Japanese women 1,000 years later. They routinely abandon their professional ambitions to prioritise their husbands and children. They are less visible in public life than women in other rich countries. These books, and one film, help to illuminate those Japanese—half the population—whom the government says it wants to usher into the light. Let’s take a look at the Japanese numbers 1 – 10 in the Sino-Japanese Number system, which is most common: