Restoration works on a temple in Kyoto revealed a 400-year old tool in the roof called a ノミ, which in English is a chisel. The kanji is pretty tricky hence why it is written in katakana: The temple is a designated national treasure, referred to as the 大徳寺（だいとくじ） or the…
Putting the customer as god can have its drawbacks. It can make an already entitled person act even more unreasonably to a crazy degree, and research from Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has shown that customer harassment (カスタマーハラスメント) is only getting worse while other types of harassment seem…
One of the things you’ll get told in the ‘cultural’ learnings side of Japanese, is to be careful with the number 4 due to its pronunciation. Apart from the fact that I disagree that this should be a JLPT N4 kanji (surely the numbers below 100 have to be N5?),…