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Why do the Japanese suck at English?

7 May 2024

5:40 AM

7 May 2024

5:40 AM

Tokyo, Japan

“Shhh! Now on face to respectable great eels life.” How’s that for the first line of an article? I spotted this gem written on a sign in the window of a seafood restaurant in the Hibiya Midtown shopping center in Tokyo recently. I was delighted. I’ve spent twenty-five years in Japan and have always enjoyed a good bit of mangled Japanese English.

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