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Lots of interestingly similar words between Japanese and Turkish. For example, yabanjin meaning barbarian in Japanese, and yabancı meaning foreigner in Turkish. The word for "good"…

Certainly Ungray Days incorporates many rhythms, chord progressions, and other structures that are derivative of other works. I think this is true of all pop music though. These st…

I went from Vocaloid hater to fan in the span of this year. There are Japanese Vocaloid producers who are pushing the boundaries of pop music in a way that wouldn't be possible wit…

I think J-Pop in general tends to create interest through composition (fast and complex chord changes, syncopated melodies with lots of movement) compared to Western pop, which ten…

Thank you. That helps me to view the author's paraphrasing in a more charitable light. "Fraudulent" may have been too strong of a word. I still find it misleading to paraphrase a s…

I am so confused about this. The linked Lancet study seems to make the opposite claim, as far as I can tell. Furthermore, the Lancet study seems to be specifically focused on COVID…

With EPAS your steering wheel still physically steers the wheel via the rack and pinion gears. With ABS and ESC, most cars on the road today have a computer involved in the braking…

This movie sounds great and I would love to watch it. It's a shame there's no legal way to watch many international movies like this if you are in the US. I make a point of watchin…

The "X-Client-Data" Chrome header that I think you are referring to is not sent in Incognito mode according to this article: https://9to5google.com/2020/02/06/google-chrome-x-clien…

While this is probably generally true, the 2018 6th gen X1 Carbon (I have one and run Fedora on it) has had significant problems with Linux trackpoint support, which still aren't f…

Japan doesn't seem to be testing aggressively like some other countries, so the number of Coronavirus cases could be underreported. But I would assume the number of deaths would be…

https://map.baidu.com/dir/%E6%AD%A6%E6%B1%89%E5%B8%82%E7%96%... I think Baidu Maps places WHCDC in the same complex identified in that Daily Mail article, directly across the stree…

It's a German expression referring to getting a job through connections (Beziehung = relationship.) https://www.dw.com/en/vitamin-b/a-6616528

I don't believe this is correct. All the sources I've read say that Tokyo has a growing population. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/12/national/japan-...