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  • "Easy Japanese" for Newcomers to Japan 

    Kim, Yeojin; Wang, Echo Zhechun; Yazawa, Ayame; Xu, Linda Shuying; Nemoto, Naoko (2016-05-15)
    Newsletter about "Easy Japanese" for Newcomers to Japan: Asian 344 Japanese language and linguistics Spring 2016

  • Japanese Existential Verbs 2: Dialects 

    Nemoto, Naoko; Takumi, Nakano (2016-06-14)
    This video discusses what kinds of existential verbs exist in dialects in Japanese while reading Kudo and Yakame (2008).

  • Japanese Numeral Classifiers 

    Nemoto, Naoko; Yamamoto, Kasumi (2016-06-15)
    In Japanese, a use of numeral classifier is mandatory to count objects. This lecture discusses the linguistics and pragmatic functions of Japanese numeral classifiers.

  • Japanese Loan Words 1 

    Nemoto, Naoko (2016-06-15)
    Japanese has been importing many words from many languages. This lecture discusses the historical background of loan words in Japanese since 16th century.

  • Japanese Loan Words 2 

    Nemoto, Naoko (2016-06-15)
    This lecture discusses the use of loan words in Japanese today and the related issues.

  • Japanese Vocabulary 

    Nemoto, Naoko; Kobayashi, Hisako; Nakano, Takumi (2016-06-15)
    This video discusses some issues on Japanese vocabulary such as synonyms and homonyms while reading Yamaguchi (2006).

  • 100 Years of Immigration, 25 Years of Dekasegi Return Migration: Globalization and Cultural Diversity in Japan Part 2 

    Oba, Junko; Nemoto, Naoko (2016-06-15)
    This lecture examines the recent massive "return migration" of Japanese Brazilian immigrant workers to their ancestral homeland of Japan and the problems and challenges of nurturing cultural diversity in Japanese society ...

  • 100 Years of Immigration, 25 Years of Dekasegi Return Migration: Globalization and Cultural Diversity in Japan  Part 1 

    Oba, Junko; Nemoto, Naoko (2016-06-15)
    This lecture delineates a history of one hundred years of Japanese immigration to Latin America, especially Brazil with the largest concentration, as a precondition for the recent return migration of people of Japanese ...

  • Anaphoric Judgement of Nouns in Japanese 

    Nemoto, Naoko; Tawa, Wako (2016-06-15)
    English possesses articles to indicate which nouns are definite or indefinite, while Japanese lacks such a class of words. This lecture discusses how the context in which nouns are used plays a great role for anaphoric ...

  • Man'yo-gana 

    Nemoto, Naoko; Nakano, Takumi; Kobayashi, Hisako (2016-06-15)
    This video discusses Manyogana through a poem by Empress Jito in Manyoshu and the differences between this poem and her poem that is sited in Shinkokinshu while reading Mano (2011).

  • Japanese Existential Verbs 1 

    Nemoto, Naoko; Nakano, Takumi (2016-06-15)
    This video discusses the use of two existential verbs in Japanese, namely 'iru' and 'aru,' while reading Kudo and Yakame (2008).

  • Mount Holyoke College: Introduction in Japanese 

    Lewis, K.J.; Quinn, Kiely; Zhang, Rebecca; Erin, Lennon; Nemoto, Naoko; Hoshino, Konomi (2021-07-09)
    This newsletter was created by four students (Lewis, Lennon, Quinn, Zhang) in Asian 326 Third-year Japanese II in the spring semester of 2021 (Module 2) with a guest writer from Japan (Hoshino). It introduces Mount Holyoke ...