June 2021

Blogs
Religion in Japan: What is Shinto and Its Practices

Have you ever seen the iconic gateway that seems to be floating on water? That’s the famous Torii of Itsukushima island (or Miyajima), in the southwestern part of Japan. A Torii is an archway to access a Shinto shrine. It's well known that in Japan, people often practice Shinto as well as Buddhism or another […]

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Japanese Ending Particles: How to Master Japanese Sentence Structure

We already saw that Japanese particles are a vital part of this language because they state the grammatical function of the noun or nouns they are referring to. However, there are some Japanese particles that are put at the end of the sentence, after the verb, which emphasizes the purpose of the speaker. They are […]

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