Daniel Morales
@howtojapanese.com
Translator, writer. How to get used to Japanese (Additional topics: Murakami, New Orleans, Chicago, beer, writing, translation, basketball). Based in Osaka. http://linktree.com/howtojapanese
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当日
当日 may be difficult to get a handle on at first, but that's potentially due to the fact that it can refer to any day in the past or future depending on context.
newsletter.howtojapanese.com
Newsletter is up! I wrote about 当日, a confusing word for new students, potentially because it can be any date in the past or present. newsletter.howtojapanese.com/tojitsu/
It's important to remind everyone this year that Feliz Navidad is the only good Christmas song.
December 1, 2025 at 10:52 AM
It's important to remind everyone this year that Feliz Navidad is the only good Christmas song.
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Nice work to whoever came up with the exhibition title The Showa Must Go On. (At Hibiya Library)
December 1, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Nice work to whoever came up with the exhibition title The Showa Must Go On. (At Hibiya Library)
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I'm really glad to see someone like Kelly finally saying this. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Mark Kelly: "This president, when he says things like 'third world countries,' what is he really saying? I think what he's saying is he doesn't want brown people in our country. And that's disturbing. It's un-American."
November 30, 2025 at 4:29 PM
I'm really glad to see someone like Kelly finally saying this. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Donkey Kong Bananza is fun but I don't really feel like it's an all-time great. I find everything on the screen super busy and difficult to parse at times. It's got a little too much in it. I'm playing it here and there and will get to it eventually.
November 30, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Donkey Kong Bananza is fun but I don't really feel like it's an all-time great. I find everything on the screen super busy and difficult to parse at times. It's got a little too much in it. I'm playing it here and there and will get to it eventually.
Yes, rice is expensive now, but no one is saying anything about how cheap pork is in Japan. It's almost concerning.
November 30, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Yes, rice is expensive now, but no one is saying anything about how cheap pork is in Japan. It's almost concerning.
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The 教師と学習者のための日本語文型辞典 is a grammar dictionary for teachers and linguists that every intermediate and advanced learner of Japanese should get.
The explanations and examples are written for native Japanese speakers, which (I think) makes some complex grammar patterns easier to understand.
The explanations and examples are written for native Japanese speakers, which (I think) makes some complex grammar patterns easier to understand.
November 29, 2025 at 2:27 PM
The 教師と学習者のための日本語文型辞典 is a grammar dictionary for teachers and linguists that every intermediate and advanced learner of Japanese should get.
The explanations and examples are written for native Japanese speakers, which (I think) makes some complex grammar patterns easier to understand.
The explanations and examples are written for native Japanese speakers, which (I think) makes some complex grammar patterns easier to understand.
I woke up this morning and ate a whole bag of cheese. Not the best decision I've ever made, but also not the worst.
November 29, 2025 at 6:36 AM
I woke up this morning and ate a whole bag of cheese. Not the best decision I've ever made, but also not the worst.
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We're gonna need a truth and reconciliation commission and Nuremberg style trials to reckon with all of this evil, and any Dem candidate for office who shies away from a full reckoning in the name of "moving forward as a nation" can get well and truly fucked
I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
A Babson College student wanted to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. She was deported instead. - The Boston Globe
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was at Logan to catch a flight to Texas when immigration authorities detained her as she was about to board the plane.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:29 PM
We're gonna need a truth and reconciliation commission and Nuremberg style trials to reckon with all of this evil, and any Dem candidate for office who shies away from a full reckoning in the name of "moving forward as a nation" can get well and truly fucked
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Whether this was random street crime or targeted political violence, I think it was bad for the president to unnecessarily put the National Guard in harm’s way like this. They simply don’t need to be there.
November 26, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Whether this was random street crime or targeted political violence, I think it was bad for the president to unnecessarily put the National Guard in harm’s way like this. They simply don’t need to be there.
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clarence thomas has no jurisprudential argument, he just hates women and thinks the constitution doesn’t protect a varia suit
November 25, 2025 at 5:20 PM
clarence thomas has no jurisprudential argument, he just hates women and thinks the constitution doesn’t protect a varia suit
Newsletter is up! I wrote about 当日, a confusing word for new students, potentially because it can be any date in the past or present. newsletter.howtojapanese.com/tojitsu/
当日
当日 may be difficult to get a handle on at first, but that's potentially due to the fact that it can refer to any day in the past or future depending on context.
newsletter.howtojapanese.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Newsletter is up! I wrote about 当日, a confusing word for new students, potentially because it can be any date in the past or present. newsletter.howtojapanese.com/tojitsu/
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If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand”
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
November 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand”
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
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If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
If you're not checking the packaging dates of your beer in Japan, you're doing it wrong. You could get a super fresh Super Dry packaged in the last few weeks or you might end up with a beer packaged seven months ago. I saw Suntory Master's Dream from April on the shelf today.
November 22, 2025 at 9:41 AM
If you're not checking the packaging dates of your beer in Japan, you're doing it wrong. You could get a super fresh Super Dry packaged in the last few weeks or you might end up with a beer packaged seven months ago. I saw Suntory Master's Dream from April on the shelf today.
I think this is what really explains Trump's treatment of Mamdani.
also trump is always deferential to celebrities and mamdani is a celebrity bsky.app/profile/atru...
Q: would you feel comfortable living in NYC under a Mamdani administration ?
TRUMP: I would. I really would.
TRUMP: I would. I really would.
November 22, 2025 at 6:34 AM
I think this is what really explains Trump's treatment of Mamdani.
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post leftist intercept comment section types are just so eager to buy into the delusion that fascism can be negotiated with
Trump is shallow and was briefly charmed by a charismatic man, by tomorrow he'll be threatening to nuke woke daycare centers again
there is no coalition with fascism
Trump is shallow and was briefly charmed by a charismatic man, by tomorrow he'll be threatening to nuke woke daycare centers again
there is no coalition with fascism
November 22, 2025 at 12:29 AM
post leftist intercept comment section types are just so eager to buy into the delusion that fascism can be negotiated with
Trump is shallow and was briefly charmed by a charismatic man, by tomorrow he'll be threatening to nuke woke daycare centers again
there is no coalition with fascism
Trump is shallow and was briefly charmed by a charismatic man, by tomorrow he'll be threatening to nuke woke daycare centers again
there is no coalition with fascism
This is really well done. Looking forward to more entries.
November 19, 2025 at 8:55 PM
This is really well done. Looking forward to more entries.
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if dems win congress next year they need to introduce an impeachment resolution against emil bove
Justice Department official told prosecutors that U.S. should 'just sink' drug boats
NPR interviews with current and former officials reveal more of the backstory around the military's strikes in the Caribbean.
www.npr.org
November 17, 2025 at 3:00 PM
if dems win congress next year they need to introduce an impeachment resolution against emil bove
Looks like Japan Post is opening birthday/greeting cards for inspection. First time for me.
November 17, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Looks like Japan Post is opening birthday/greeting cards for inspection. First time for me.
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Saw someone repost this but, folks, this is literally the liberal position. It doesn't get more liberal.
November 16, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Saw someone repost this but, folks, this is literally the liberal position. It doesn't get more liberal.
Really incredible how useless Facebook has become so quickly. The main feed is borderline unusable. Groups and messaging still OK, but that's about it.
November 15, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Really incredible how useless Facebook has become so quickly. The main feed is borderline unusable. Groups and messaging still OK, but that's about it.
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Important to remember that these murders are not furthering any policy or doing any service to the interests of the United States. These people are dying purely for the entertainment of Trump and his toadies
80 people. Basically, Trump and Hegseth are prolific serial killers. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
U.S. Strike Kills 4 on Boat Trump Says Was Smuggling Drugs
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Important to remember that these murders are not furthering any policy or doing any service to the interests of the United States. These people are dying purely for the entertainment of Trump and his toadies
Does Hades 2 not auto save after each location? I closed my game and when I reopened it I was back at the start. RIP my build 😭
November 15, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Does Hades 2 not auto save after each location? I closed my game and when I reopened it I was back at the start. RIP my build 😭
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An update on current and upcoming English translation of Uketsu books.
#Books #Uketsu #StrangeBuildings #StrangeMaps
#Books #Uketsu #StrangeBuildings #StrangeMaps
Strange Translations
I seem to have become known as "Uketsu's English translator," which is certainly not a bad thing to be. But it does mean I get quite a lot of questions about the works, some of which I can't even answer. Like, no, I don't know how Uketsu got his ideas. No, I haven't seen under his mask.
jimrion.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:48 AM
An update on current and upcoming English translation of Uketsu books.
#Books #Uketsu #StrangeBuildings #StrangeMaps
#Books #Uketsu #StrangeBuildings #StrangeMaps
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Don’t forget he also helped engineer the Asian financial crisis in the 90s! And notoriously thinks women are on average genetically inferior at science!
Larry Summers is really one of the worst people. Constantly failing upwards to the commanding heights of American society.
Larry Summers is really one of the worst people. Constantly failing upwards to the commanding heights of American society.
It is also so awesome that the guy who engineered fucking over regular Americans and rewarding the big banks in the 2008 financial crisis was Epstein associate Larry Summers.
November 13, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Don’t forget he also helped engineer the Asian financial crisis in the 90s! And notoriously thinks women are on average genetically inferior at science!
Larry Summers is really one of the worst people. Constantly failing upwards to the commanding heights of American society.
Larry Summers is really one of the worst people. Constantly failing upwards to the commanding heights of American society.