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It seems like Neo-Edo got a wake up call when an earthquake struck off the Japanese coast and shook Tokyo early Wednesday.  So far there are no immediate reports of injuries or damage and no fears of a tsunami. Power lines and communications are running normally
The epicenter of the 6.8 earthquake that struck at [...]

I had the pleasure to meet Ikue Shingu (Lecturer in Japanese, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and Junko Hatanaka (Lecturer in Japanese, The University of Texas at Austin) at the American Council of Teacher’s of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) a few months ago. We discussed their website for learning the Kansai dialect of Japanese. As a linguist, [...]