I said yesterday there was a lot of media coverage about Japan thanks to the 2019 Rugby World Cup. Now Japanese phrases are used on the media.　昨日、ラグビーワールドカップのお陰[かげ]で(= thanks to)、日本についての報道[ほうどう](= report)がたくさんある、と言いました。そして、日本語のフレーズも英語のメディアに出ています！ I just happened to find this article on the Guardian mentioning niwaka fans (of rugby). It explains: …The Japanese even have a phrase for it: […]

The 2019 Rugby World Cup campaign is now over for the Brave Blossoms… But the Rugby World Cup is not over yet and you can still find quite a lot of media coverage about Japan here. I saw this article on today’s New Zealand Herald showing a few phrases of Japanese. I do not think […]

We will be all excited this coming weekend again; yes, I am talking about the quarter-finals of the 2019 Rugby World Cup! All Blacks will play against Ireland and the Brave Blossoms will face Springboks! この週末[しゅうまつ]はまたラグビーワールドカップで盛[も]り上[あ]がり(= heating up)そうですね。ニュージーランドはアイルランドと、日本は南[みなみ]アフリカ(= South Africa)と対戦[たいせん]します(= to be matched with)。 Needless to say, the Rugby World Cup is very important here, […]

Typhoon Hagibis hammered Japan really hard and we can now clearly see damage caused by the typhoon.  We all hope everybody and everywhere will recover soon. As you know, the typhoon forced three games of the Rugby World Cup to be cancelled, which is a real shame, but heartwarming scenes were witnessed as a result. […]

I wrote about a big typhoon approaching Japan yesterday. This typhoon is called Typhoon No. 19 (2019) in Japan. I found its English name on TV news here last night; Typhoon Hagibis. 昨日、日本に接近[せっきん]している(= approaching)大きな台風[たいふう](= typhoon)について書きました。この台風は、日本では台風19号[ごう]と呼[よ]ばれて(= to be called)います。英語ではハギビス台風(= Typhoon Hagibis)です。昨日、こちらのテレビのニュースで見ました。 Probably because people in New Zealand are really interested in the Rugby World Cup in […]

A huge powerful typhoon is now approaching Japan. According to the weather forecast, it will reach the country this weekend. As you know, quite a few rugby matches are scheduled there this weekend. Hopefully the typhoon will not bring so much damage. You can see the typhoon forecast on all sorts of websites like here. […]