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世論 What Japan Thinks

How to Move to Japan in 2026: Guide for Expats, Work, and Study Opportunities - If you dream of immersing yourself in Japan’s unique culture, advanced technology, and vibrant cities, 2026 could be the perfect time to make that dream ...
5 hours ago
the Beijinger Blog

Who's Opened and Who's Closed on the Burger Scene This Year? - [image: Who's Opened and Who's Closed on the Burger Scene This Year?] We're kicking off our 2026 Beijing Juicy Burger Cup, and that's got us thi...
8 hours ago
Simon Willison's Weblog

Meta's new model is Muse Spark, and meta.ai chat has some interesting tools - Meta announced Muse Spark today, their first model release since Llama 4 almost exactly a year ago. It's hosted, not open weights, and the API is currentl...
13 hours ago
China Rhyming

Shanghai’s Hai Seas Distillery - My immense thanks to Brian Wang and the Hai Seas Distillery in Shanghai for a much appreciated bottle of their San Oaks Whiskey and of their Crazy Eights G...
20 hours ago
Val Town Blog

Investor Update – March 2026 - 21% revenue growth. Everyone's building AI agents and internal tools. You should deploy them on Val Town
2 days ago
Tokyo Times

Abandoned Japan on film - The vast majority of my work, both personal and professional, is shot on a digital Leica M — arguably one of the most film-like experiences it’s possible t...
2 days ago
Second Breakfast

Illegal Check to the Head -
2 days ago
Imagethief

French Harder! - An air crash, the politics of language and the dangers of unresolved tension Let’s say you’re the CEO of a national air carrier. It’s a big job that comes ...
3 days ago
China Digital Times (CDT)

Photo: 中国北京市地坛公园, by 荧_Lumine - [image: A finely detailed photo of the leaves on a tree in Beijing's Ditan Park. The fine leaves resemble fingers of frost across a pane of glass, but are ...
6 days ago
Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog

The Magnetic Core of Open - I’ve advanced the design and shaping of the new Open event (April 28-30, 2026 in Las Vegas), so I can share more about it now. Let me tell you the event’s ...
6 days ago
Life of a Japanese Polyglot in Singapore

Sounds Too Dystopian? It's the Reality in Japan! - A few weeks ago, I read a nonfiction book titled People Who Can No Longer Read (本を読めなくなった人たち), authored by Toyoshi Inada. It documents how reading has b...
1 week ago
The Mozilla Blog

Mozilla and Mila announce strategic research partnership to advance open source and sovereign AI capabilities - The future of AI should belong to all of humanity, well beyond a handful of countries or companies. For that to happen, AI needs to be open, trusted, and...
1 week ago
The Linguist - Learn English, Learn Languages Online

The Best Way to Learn Japanese: 5 Tips From Someone Who’s Spoken It for 50 Years - TL;DR The best way to learn Japanese is simpler than most learners think. Start with kanji. A small number of kanji covers a surprisingly large portion o...
2 weeks ago
Donald Clark Plan B

New, free language learning tool in Google Translate - A new teaching and learning tool has appeared in Google Translate. When a teaching and learning tool is embedded in an existing platform with over 1 bil...
2 weeks ago
Fluent in 3 months

How I’m learning Mandarin in 2026: My Daily Routine in Taipei - Way back in 2012, I announced one of the most followed and discussed projects on this blog, of finally taking on Mandarin. It was an intensive 3 months, ...
3 weeks ago
carlgene.com/blog

Telephone Interpreting Resources — Low-English Alphabet for Chinese Speakers - I have been taking a lot of telephone interpreting jobs lately. One thing I have had difficulty with is spelling English names, addresses, etc. for Chinese...
3 months ago
tang dynasty times

- 春有百花秋有月，夏有涼風冬有雪；若無閒事掛心頭，便是人間好時節。 In S...
7 months ago
Adaptive Learning in ELT

ELT and AI for Good - Cambridge publishes a series of short academic titles called ‘Elements’. There are dozens of them and, for a few weeks only after publication, they can be ...
8 months ago
china/divide

Harley Medic Partners with BloodTestsOnline.co.uk - Harley Medic is proud to announce a groundbreaking partnership with BloodTestsOnline.co.uk, the UK’s premier home blood testing platform. This collaborat...
8 months ago
nihao你好=hello

Chinese Characters: Learn Chinese Characters Visually - 好 hǎo | Learning2060 - The following image shows how this character has evolve from the oracle bones 甲骨文: Source： https://www.vividict.com/Public/index/page/details/details.ht...
10 months ago
The China Beat

Amorim trả giá khi MU để mất ‘báu vật’ từ thời Sir Alex - Trong bức tranh đầy u ám của Manchester United mùa giải 2024/25, HLV Ruben Amorim đang đối mặt với một loạt thách thức để cứu vãn đội bóng. Nhưng giữa nh...
11 months ago
Langology

Hướng Dẫn Các Bước Cài Đặt App 1.1.1.1 Truy Cập Nhanh Chóng - Cài đặt app 1.1.1.1 không những được sử dụng rộng rãi trên các thiết bị di động iOS và Android, mà chúng cũng được update và cài đặt thường xuyên trên máy ...
1 year ago
Harujapan's Weblog » E.L.E writing assignment 3/4

manipulate with a carrot and stick 飴と鞭 - I started planning to lose weight the day before yesterday. This time I’ve already started using the Asuken app to track my progress, and today, I’m planni...
2 years ago
World's Strongest Librarian

สล็อตคนยุคใหม่ สล็อต888 - สล็อตคนยุคใหม่ สล็อต888 เกมส์สล็อตออนไลน์ เล่นง่ายสะดวกสบาย จะเล่นเมื่อไหร่ก็เล่นได้เลย เกมส์สล็อตที่มีให้เลือกเล่นมากกว่า 1000 รายการ และยังเป็นเว็บเดีย...
3 years ago
Shanghai Shiok!

Beberapa Jenis Hewan Yang Hidup Di Dalam Tanah - Beberapa Jenis Hewan Yang Hidup Di Dalam Tanah Beberapa Jenis Hewan Yang Hidup Di Dalam Tanah – Hewan yang tinggalnya di dalam tanah adalah hewan cacing,...
3 years ago
Chinese Blog

Chinese Blog Greatest Hits: Volume 2 - There’s an old Chinese idiom that goes “Time flies like an arrow” (光阴似箭 guāngyīnsìjiàn). I can totally relate to that one at the moment. It doesn’t seem ...
3 years ago
Laowai Chinese 老外中文

I Know Your Name 我知道你的名字 - Long time no post! I’m delighted to announce that a song I wrote with the inimitable Galen Crew (Instagram | Weibo) came out yesterday! What an epic decisi...
4 years ago
VISUAL THOUGHTS 视觉观点

Free Cellphone Wallpapers - A selection of my images are now available as FREE cellphone wallpapers that you can download for personal use* on your phone. To download, simply visit ...
4 years ago
Ghostwriter Dad

Sterling & Stone Bestseller Fat Vampire TV Adaptation Sold to NBC/Universal - Sterling & Stone couldn’t be happier to announce that the TV adaptation of our Best-selling novel Fat Vampire by Johnny B Truant has been sold to NBC/Uni...
4 years ago
Learn Chinese - ChinesePod

Best Cell Phone Plans 71 - *Verizon Shared Data 5 GB:* Verizon’s Shared Data 5 GB plan starts at $65 and gives you 5 GB of high-speed data and unlimited data at slower speeds. You...
4 years ago
China Media Project

Selling China’s Anti-Poverty Model - China’s leadership is now actively promoting a grand narrative of its anti-poverty victory, which party-state media have called an “earthly miracle." The n...
5 years ago
All Japanese All The Time Dot Com: How to learn Japanese. On your own, having fun and to fluency.

How To Turn a YouTube Video into a Permanent Learning Tool [i.e. a Series of Awesome Multimedia SRS MCD/MXD Cards] - Pick a YouTube video on a topic that interests you intensely, that really grabs you (whether or not you fully or even partially understand it). What matter...
5 years ago
The Useless Tree

The Dao of Pandemic - A nice piece in the SCMP by Lijia Zhang ...
5 years ago
Chengdu Living

Life with Coronavirus in Chengdu: a Q&A - Learn what life is like in the Sichuan capital under coronavirus. Substantial quarantine measures change daily life, work, and social relationships in Ch...
6 years ago
莫斯科浮遊録

С Новым 2020 Годом ! - ...
6 years ago
chinaSMACK

Young Woman Commits Suicide After Photoshoot Scam - October 26th, Xiao Wei (a 20 years old girl from Guiyang) left the world disappointed. Her family is devastated and knowing the reason just made things w...
6 years ago
Silicon Hutong

Upgrading Apple for 5G - Jonny Evans, the resident Appleholic at Computerworld, made a case today that Apple would be the primary driver for 5G in North America, despite the fact t...
6 years ago
ChinaHush

6 Reasons to Visit China - At first glance, China seems like home to bamboo forests, vibrant cities, and centuries of ancient history, but… The post 6 Reasons to Visit China first ...
6 years ago
China blog | ChinaGeeks

How to Get a China Travel Visa - From the bustling city of Shanghai to the sprawling Great Wall in Beijing, China is a country that should be added to your travel itinerary. But before y...
6 years ago
Doubting to shuo

Learning from my own book - The most popular piece I’ve written on this site over the past few was about Teaching English Online. I wrote it while I was hanging out with a bunch of di...
8 years ago
Practice Chinese with the best teachers

Learn Chinese through Game of Thrones Quotes - As we all know* “Games of Thrones”* (冰与火之歌: 权力游戏, Bīng yǔ huǒ zhī gē: Quánlì yóuxì) season 7 finale is this Sunday. It is really exciting for all of us (...
8 years ago
Jottings from the Granite Studio

See you over at Slow Boats and Caravan Trails - After 11 years of blogging at Jottings from the Granite Studio, I'm moving on to Slow Boats and Caravan Trails. Won't you join me? The post See you over ...
8 years ago
Beyond Bounds Blog

5 Reasons You Need Solitude - We worry when we go out alone, whether to have a meal or just to chill, what people will think about us. Is she lonely? He doesn’t have friends? Did she go...
8 years ago
Chinese Hacks

A common LINE scam in Taiwan - There’s a scam in Taiwan that goes something like this. You receive a LINE message from a desperate friend asking to borrow money for a couple of weeks. Us...
9 years ago
About.com Japanese Language: Most Popular Articles

Feature Articles (1) - Feature Articles - various articles about Japanese language and culture
9 years ago
About.com Japanese Language: What's Hot Now

Expressions used in Japanese Letters - How to... - The difference between written language and conversational language in Japanese is much greater than in English. Learn Japanese letter format.
9 years ago
Lost Laowai China Blog

Chinaâ€™s First World War — Part Two: The Battle of Tsingtao - For most expats in China, the name â€œTsingtaoâ€ conjures up images of beer, but for fans of military history itâ€™s a name associated with the most impo...
9 years ago
Warp, Weft, and Way

More jobs: Job opening at HKU - The University of Hong Kong is advertising an opening for an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy. The AOS/AOC are open. Applicants working ...
9 years ago
LATEST

Intermediate Chinese - Chinese People in San Francisco - In this intermediate lesson, I introduce briefly the history of Chinese people in San Francisco, the largest Chinatown in North America and a well-known...
9 years ago
KeropokMan's - Singapore Daily Photo

2 Pieces of the Berlin Wall in Singapore. - The Berlin wall was demolished on 13 June 1990 and was totally taken apart in 1992. Some time ago, there were 4 blocks of the Berlin Wall at the Bedok Rese...
9 years ago
Sinoglot

Major bug fix - Uploading There was a bug in the code that handles uploading audio. It basically prevented users from being able to actually contribute. I’m not sure how l...
9 years ago
Shanghai Scrap

Making Everest Safe Makes it Unsafe. - A couple of days ago I published a Bloomberg View column on ways to reduce deaths – and crowds – on Mount Everest. The two are closely related: too many pe...
9 years ago
Japan Probe

Five Line sticker creators who deserve more attention - One of the greatest things about the Line instant messaging application is its ever-growing library of stickers (or “stamps” in Japanese). Line allows user...
10 years ago
Speaking of China

Can Interracial and Intercultural Relationships Be a Transcendental Experience? - Beyond all expectations, love happened to me in China -- and it was only possible because I transcended my assumptions and biases about dating in China. ...
10 years ago
an imperfect pen

Stories and Legends: Yunnan's Torch Festivals - I don't recall exactly when I first heard stories about The Torch Festival in Yunnan, but I do remember going to the festival in Stone Forest County in...
10 years ago
マンガで英会話

No 182 Can I trust you? - こんにちわ！本当にご無沙汰しております。さて今日は本当に久しぶりのレッスンをあげてみました。皆さんは人間関係で一番大切なのはなんだろうと思われますか？愛、忍耐、妥協、理解、時間のシェア、などなど色々挙げられると思いますが、やはり一番は信頼関係なのであります。信じられ...
10 years ago
Indonesia

Looking Around - via http://500px.com/photo/93565139
10 years ago
Hao Hao Report - Submitted news - Learning Chinese

Reuters Is The Latest News Organization To Get Blocked In China - Reuters has joined Bloomberg, New York Times and Wall Street Journal in being blocked in China. Reuters itself reported that its website was not reachab...
11 years ago
Hao Hao Report - Submitted news - China Travel

Reuters Is The Latest News Organization To Get Blocked In China - Reuters has joined Bloomberg, New York Times and Wall Street Journal in being blocked in China. Reuters itself reported that its website was not reachab...
11 years ago
Hao Hao Report - Submitted news - China Pics

Reuters Is The Latest News Organization To Get Blocked In China - Reuters has joined Bloomberg, New York Times and Wall Street Journal in being blocked in China. Reuters itself reported that its website was not reachab...
11 years ago
Yearlyglot - Fluent Every Year

Experiment 2015: The French Connection - I'm getting off to a late start, but I'm really excited for this year's project, because it is once again a new experiment! For 2015, I have decided I wan...
11 years ago
井底之蛙

We’ve moved - Check us out that the new site
11 years ago
Road To Polyglotism

A Hundred Days Around Glossika Swedish - This post will serve more as a journal and eventual post that I will publicize with my results. My main purpose is to have a place in the world to keep tra...
11 years ago
LingQCentral

Help spread the word about LingQ! - We know many of our members love LingQ and love to spread the word about LingQ for which we are extremely grateful! Our refer a friend program rewards yo...
11 years ago
About.com Japanese Language

Word of the Day: Buji - Today's word is "buji (safety; security; peace; quietness)". It is written with a two kanji characters "bu" and "ji". *Buji Oosaka eki ni tsuita. 無事大阪駅に着...
11 years ago
JapanSoc

Pascal Burel has been missing for nearly a week around Kita-dake, Japan's second... - Pascal Burel has been missing for nearly a week around Kita-dake, Japan's second tallest mountain. Frenchman missing five days in Yamanashi mountains www....
12 years ago
Street-Smart Language Learning™

How to get MP3 audio recordings of your target language from Google Translate - *The following instructions are a manual process to add audio from Google Translate, but you can also accomplish the same automatically for multiple card...
12 years ago
China Rises: Notes from the Middle Kingdom

Postcards from the National People's Congress - [image: IMG_0767] [image: IMG_0769] [image: IMG_0778] [image: IMG_0770] [image: IMG_0776] [image: IMG_2027] [image: IMG_0777]
13 years ago
林凯文的博客

南山政府关于我的文章 Nanshan District gvt. Article on me. - http://www.szns.gov.cn/publish/main/1/7/11/20130228101503595161417/index.html This is a translation of the article in the above link. Irish expat performs ...
13 years ago
Tae Kim's Blog

Finding time in a busy life - I must confess, I’m a pretty fickle person. I usually start work on something, ignore it for a long time, and come back to it when it’s fresh and exciting ...
13 years ago
Tokyo Portraits

Southern california sunshine - A shot at Rodeo Dr., Beverly Hills. It is really strong sunshine.
13 years ago
About.com Mandarin Language

Exchanging Gifts In Mandarin - Be sure you know the rules for giving and receiving gifts when visiting China or Taiwan. Chinese customs are much different from those in the USA or Euro...
13 years ago
Learn Chinese

Chinese Conversation -Good news to an accountant- Learn Mandarin online - Good news to an accountant A: Good morning, Mary? It’s John Kramer calling. You remember you handled my tax forms for me? B: Of course, Mr. Kramer. How are...
14 years ago
I'm Learning Japanese

Tools for building consistency - It’s been about 2.75 years since I ran into AJATT and this phase of learning Japanese. Unfortunately I don’t have that much to show for it, and I am nowher...
14 years ago
V10 Japan

find me on YouTube! - Hello, everyone! Sorry for not posting for such a long time. I’ve decided to vlog instead. At first, I didn’t want to post my YouTube on here, as I wanted ...
14 years ago
The Art of Audacity

An Ode to Road Rash - Had an argument with the road… and the road won I’ll keep this brief because I’m trying to keep the blood off my keyboard… There’s an unwritten rule of the...
14 years ago
Discovering Mandarin

Learning Mandarin: Pronunciation Debacles: x & q vs. sh & ch - This one of many guest posts here at Discovering Mandarin. This post/lesson is from my friend Megan (@megoizzy on twitter). I have actually been sat here t...
16 years ago
Aimee Barnes

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CN Reviews

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China Advertising and Marketing Insight | littleredbook.cn

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The World of Chinese

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Danwei 2.0

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古瀬絵理OFFICIAL BLOG -古瀬絵理のNEWSえりごのみ

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The Everyday Language Learner

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Sono Inglese di Gerrards Cross

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Social Mandarin - Published news

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CHINAYOUREN

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Chinese Reader

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A Ku Indeed!

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Learn Chinese Blog

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Stir Fried China

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Smart.fm Blog

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China Translated

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No-sword

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