All four of the great post towns at the gates of Edo (Naito Shinjuku, Itabashi, Senju, and Shinagawa) steadily evolved into party towns, even attracting denizens within Edo to make day trips beyond the city’s gates for drinks and debauchery.
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They’re now spelled primarily with katakana, thank goodness. But did you know that most loan words from foreign languages in Japanese used to be spelled with kanji or represented by local alternatives? Test your knowledge of these obscure readings!
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About four years ago, I wrote that Japan was on a downward spiral that was going to leave at the Daiso of Asia.
Basically, the 100 Yen store of the world.
nothing has really changed for the better.  The new Prime Minister is just Shinzo Abe in a blue dress.asiatimes.com/2021…
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