“The bones came jumbled together from the kitchen... there was no way of telling my parents from my Brothers and Sisters. I put them all in the same urn. Sometimes, late at night, I hold them in my hands and cry.” JapanDeath Of A Loved OneNuclear WarAtomic BombNagasaki Book:The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories Source: The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories
“Instead of pressuring the Japanese into lowering trade barriers or taking a greater share of the responsibility for their own defense, we should be urging them to bring their verbs from the ends of their sentences into second place, right after their subjects, where they belong.” HumorLanguageHumorousGrammarJapanese CultureGrammar Book Book:Making Sense of Japanese: What the Textbooks Don't Tell You Source: Making Sense of Japanese: What the Textbooks Don't Tell You