{"id":36978,"date":"2014-12-11T19:24:13","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T23:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=36978"},"modified":"2014-12-12T11:43:14","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T15:43:14","slug":"wit-life-280-2014%e5%b9%b4%e3%81%ae%e7%8f%be%e4%bb%a3%e7%94%a8%e8%aa%9e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2014\/12\/11\/wit-life-280-2014%e5%b9%b4%e3%81%ae%e7%8f%be%e4%bb%a3%e7%94%a8%e8%aa%9e\/","title":{"rendered":"WIT Life #280: 2014\u5e74\u306e\u73fe\u4ee3\u7528\u8a9e"},"content":{"rendered":"

WIT Life <\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/a>is a periodic series written by professional Writer\/Interpreter\/Translator <\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/em>Stacy Smith<\/span><\/strong><\/a> <\/em>(Kumamo<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/em>to-ken<\/span><\/a> CIR, 2000-<\/strong><\/em>03). <\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/em>She starts<\/strong><\/em> her day by watching Fujisankei\u2019s newscast in Japanese, and here she sha<\/strong><\/em>r<\/strong><\/em>es some of the interesting tidbits and <\/strong><\/em>t<\/strong><\/em>r<\/strong><\/em>ends along with h<\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/em>er own observations.<\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Every year Japan picks the top 10 buzzwords for the year, out of an initial pool of 50 nominated phrases<\/a>.\u00a0 You can find the list and explanation of selections in Japanese here<\/a>, and below I will break them down as well.\u00a0 The annual grand prize was awarded to \u30c0\u30e1\u3088~\u30c0\u30e1\u30c0\u30e1 (dame yo, dame dame<\/em>), a phrase popularized by the female comedy duo Nippon Erekiteru Rengo, and \u96c6\u56e3\u7684\u81ea\u885b\u6a29 (shuudanteki jieiken<\/em>), or the right to collective self-defense.\u00a0 The former is a way of lightly turning someone down, particularly when you are asked to do something you aren\u2019t able to do but can\u2019t completely refuse.\u00a0 The latter highlights the controversial decision by\u00a0Prime Minister Abe’s Cabinet to change the government\u2019s interpretation of the pacifist Constitution to enable Japan to engage in collective self-defense.\u00a0 The remaining eight picks can be found below, so why not incorporate some into your conversations to impress Japanese friends?<\/p>\n

\u2022 \u30ab\u30fc\u30d7\u5973\u5b50 (Carp joshi<\/em>): female fans of the Hiroshima Carp baseball team
\n\u2022 \u30ec\u30b8\u30a7\u30f3\u30c9 (rejendo<\/em>): refers to veteran ski jumper Noriaki Kasai, who by taking the gold at age 41 at Sochi this year is the oldest Olympic medalist in ski-jumping history (now 42-years old and shows no sign of stopping!)
\n\u2022 \u30de\u30bf\u30cf\u30e9 (mata hara): maternal harassment, or pregnant women who are discriminated against in the workplace\"kabedon\"
\n\u2022 \u3042\u308a\u306e\u307e\u307e\u3067 (ari no mama de<\/em>): Japanese title for the song “Let It Go” from the hit movie Frozen
\n\u2022 \u58c1\u30c9\u30f3<\/a> (kabe don,<\/em> meaning “wall” and the sound of someone hitting one): from manga and the movie \u300cL\u2661DK\u300d, when a guy leans over a woman and presses her against a wall with his hand slammed up on it, supposedly making her melt into his arms
\n\u2022 \u5996\u602a\u30a6\u30a9\u30c3\u30c1 (yokei uocchi): popular kids’ anime Ghost Watch
\n\u2022 \u5371\u967a\u30c9\u30e9\u30c3\u30b0: dangerous drugs such as stimulants, which have been involved in many of the stories reported in the news this year
\n\u2022 \u3054\u304d\u3052\u3093\u3088\u3046 (gokigenyou<\/em>): meaning “Farewell,” an expression used by one of the characters on the NHK morning drama Hanako and Anne which aired earlier in the year.<\/p>\n

Speaking of Japan’s daily morning drama or \u671d\u30c9\u30e9, as part of my TV Japan package I am really enjoying the one that started this fall called Massan.\u00a0 Rare for an NHK drama, it features a male (the eponymous Massan) in the lead role.\u00a0 However, his Scottish wife Ellie (played by American Charlotte Kate Fox, the first leading foreign actress in a NHK morning drama!) is equally important as the story’s focus is on both his quest to manufacture authentic whiskey in Japan (based on actual Japanese whiskey industry founder Masataka Taketsuru), as well as their life as an international couple during the Taisho and Showa eras (1912-1989).\u00a0 This article<\/a> about the reaction to the show from contemporary foreign wives in Japan is interesting, and access this link<\/a> to check out the show for yourself!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WIT Life is a periodic series written by professional Writer\/Interpreter\/Translator Stacy Smith (Kumamoto-ken CIR, 2000-03). She starts her day by watching Fujisankei\u2019s newscast in Japanese, and here she shares some of the interesting tidbits and trends along with her own observations. Every year Japan picks the top 10 buzzwords for the year, out of an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,36,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-translatinginterpreting","category-wit-life","category-writers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-9Cq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36978"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37052,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36978\/revisions\/37052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}