The following bilingual article was published in the December 2003 issue of the Hiragana Times magazine in Japan. (Each PDF page is about 900 KB. Ill try to make them smaller as soon as I have some time to play with the images to make sure they stay readable.)

Click on the image to download a readable version.

If you are studying Japanese, be sure to pick up this magazine each month at your bookstore in Japan. You can also subscribe online and get delivery overseas.

Cover page (42KB)

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