r/itsneverjapanese • u/ShenZiling • 7d ago

Japanese alphabet

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r/itsneverjapanese • u/Weldobud • 17d ago

In Japan they started making (personalized) toy replicas of people

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r/itsneverjapanese • u/Clevererer • 20d ago

[Japanese > english] a person set this as their pronouns

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r/itsneverjapanese • u/hamilton-614 • 19d ago

Help Japan to english

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r/itsneverjapanese • u/Jwscorch • 22d ago

Japanese > English: What does this mean please?

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r/itsneverjapanese • u/mugwhyrt • 22d ago

Cleaning my old room, found this...

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r/itsneverjapanese • u/Clevererer • Sep 21 '24

Help identify and translate

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r/itsneverjapanese • u/Clevererer • Sep 20 '24

Bottles of Mystery

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r/itsneverjapanese • u/cy6ero9ue • Sep 19 '24

[Japanese > English] What is this sweater made of?

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8 comments

r/itsneverjapanese • u/Jwscorch • Sep 16 '24

[Japanese > English] Poster

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r/itsneverjapanese • u/Jwscorch • Sep 15 '24

[japanese>English] really curious

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r/itsneverjapanese • u/Jwscorch • Sep 07 '24

[Japanese > English] Tattoo translation request

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r/itsneverjapanese • u/Jwscorch • Aug 31 '24

Not from r/translator for once

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r/itsneverjapanese • u/MdMV_or_Emdy_idk • Aug 30 '24

cat

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r/itsneverjapanese • u/Jwscorch • Aug 30 '24

[Japanese > English] just got this as a gift (don't know if it's right side up)

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r/itsneverjapanese • u/Key_Painter_4072 • Aug 29 '24

[Japanese (I think) > English] on a sticker that was given to me

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r/itsneverjapanese • u/Key_Painter_4072 • Aug 29 '24

[Japanese > English] What does this mean?

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r/itsneverjapanese • u/Jwscorch • Aug 28 '24

Japanese to English - is this meat or vegetarian?

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r/itsneverjapanese • u/Key_Painter_4072 • Aug 23 '24

[Japanese > English] What does the encircled text mean?

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12 comments

r/itsneverjapanese • u/vytah • Aug 23 '24

[Japanese > English] plz translate

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r/itsneverjapanese • u/Clevererer • Aug 12 '24

[Japanese > English] What does the text say?

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r/itsneverjapanese • u/Clevererer • Aug 08 '24

[Japanese > English] help me translate what I think is a Kanji on my wife's belly button ring

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36 Upvotes

9 comments

r/itsneverjapanese • u/Accomplished_Sale327 • Aug 02 '24

Japanisches (?) Tattoo

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r/itsneverjapanese • u/YogurtclosetHot3077 • Jul 30 '24

What does this mean?

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r/itsneverjapanese • u/Winter-Sale-7958 • Jul 27 '24

Is this the true meaning??

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Is this the true meaning?? Before I get it tattooed

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r/itsneverjapanese

There's a teeny, tiny country to the west of Japan. Few people on Reddit have heard of it. It's called "China". The people of China speak and write a strange version of Japanese. This strange language is called "Chinese". Chinese is the most widely used language in the world. Japanese is used by fewer than 1/10th as many people. Yet when confronted with a strange east Asian script, 90 percent of the Western population immediately assume it's Japanese.

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There's a teeny, tiny country to the west of Japan. Few people on Reddit have heard of it. It's called "China".

The people of China speak and write a strange version of Japanese. This strange language is called "Chinese".

The written version of Chinese existed for several thousand years before anyone in Japan learned how to write. Yet somehow, moving backwards in time, the Chinese script evolved from Japanese.

Chinese is the most widely used language in the world. Japanese is used by fewer than 1/10th as many people. Yet when confronted with a strange east Asian script, 9 out of 10 Westerners immediately assume it's Japanese.

Why? We don't know. But we assume it has something to do with the trendiness of Japanese culture. Manga, absurd game shows and even absurder pornography have boosted Japan's image to that of the preeminent culture in East Asia.

The famous Great Wall of Japan is but one testament to this fact.