However, the Japanese futon’s portable design means they can be placed anywhere, including a bed frame. A low platform bed base works well with a floor mattress if you don’t have a tatami, while a ...

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East Japan Railway Company says the futon was about 1.8 meters long and 1 meter wide. The train resumed operation about 30 minutes later, affecting about 5,000 passengers. The Meteorological ...

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Japanese is a language isolate, spoken by 121 million people in Japanese archipelago. There are small Japanese communities in American Samoa, Hawaii, North and South ...

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The Japanese language has three types of characters: Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji. Hiragana and Katakana are phonetic symbols, each representing one syllable while Kanji is ideogram, each stand ...

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