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	<title>しあわせ</title>
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	<description>幸せ [しあわせ] (adj-na,n) happiness, good fortune, luck, blessing</description>
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		<title>Crack appears in Mixi&#8217;s exclusion method</title>
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Two years ago mixi started requiring a Japanese email address in order to sign up to mixi. It seems that what they are doing is filtering for undesirable domains. Hence google mail etc are being barred, Japanese keitai are not.
Koichi at Tofugu has found an apparent crack in mixi&#8217;s filters. dot-edu domain addresses are not [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.shiawase.co.uk/2007/08/21/mixi/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Mixi'>Mixi</a></li>
<li><a href='http://www.shiawase.co.uk/2008/04/25/orientalism/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: オリエンタリズム &#8211; Orientalism Club Night'>オリエンタリズム &#8211; Orientalism Club Night</a></li>
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		<link>http://www.shiawase.co.uk/2010/03/12/crack-appears-in-mixis-exclusion-method/</link>
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		<title>Kanji Sieve &#8211; Analysing Kanji Usage</title>
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This is a little FileMaker solution I&#8217;ve written.
It takes a piece of pasted Japanese text and analyses the kanji contained in it.
I wrote it as a quick and probably imprecise way of looking at kanji usage in texts. Probably because of the 1998 study of kanji usage in the Asahi Shinbun (Shinbun denshi media no [...]


Related posts:<ol><li><a href='http://www.shiawase.co.uk/2009/12/08/my-filemaker-pro-kanji-project/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: My FileMaker Pro Kanji Project'>My FileMaker Pro Kanji Project</a></li>
<li><a href='http://www.shiawase.co.uk/2009/12/20/filemaker-project-progress-1/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: FileMaker Kanji Project &#8211; progress 1'>FileMaker Kanji Project &#8211; progress 1</a></li>
<li><a href='http://www.shiawase.co.uk/2010/01/07/japanese-childrens-kanji-book/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Japanese Childrens Kanji Book'>Japanese Childrens Kanji Book</a></li>
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		<link>http://www.shiawase.co.uk/2010/02/26/kanji-sieve/</link>
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		<title>Requiem for Battleship Yamato</title>
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Yamato sank and her giant body lies shattered 200 miles northwest of Tokunoshima. 430 meters down.
Three thousand corpses, still entombed today.
What were their thoughts as they died?
In April 1945, Yoshida Mitsuru was a junior officer stationed on the bridge of the Yamato during her ill-concieved and hopeless 特攻 Special Attack mission that was meant to [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.shiawase.co.uk/2008/04/19/falling-blossom/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Falling Blossom'>Falling Blossom</a></li>
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		<link>http://www.shiawase.co.uk/2010/02/20/requiem-for-battleship-yamato/</link>
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		<title>Nintendo DSi LL</title>
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Or outside of Japan the DSi XL. But a friend has brought me a Japanese DSi LL a month or so ahead of the European launch. Who needs an Apple iPad?
It&#8217;s a really nice gadget. It feels much more substantial than a DS lite. There&#8217;s a big difference in build quality. The bigger screens make [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.shiawase.co.uk/2009/12/20/filemaker-project-progress-1/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: FileMaker Kanji Project &#8211; progress 1'>FileMaker Kanji Project &#8211; progress 1</a></li>
<li><a href='http://www.shiawase.co.uk/2007/06/01/padict/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: PAdict'>PAdict</a></li>
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		<link>http://www.shiawase.co.uk/2010/02/09/nintendo-dsi-ll/</link>
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		<title>Japanese Blog in German</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I got a nice email from the author of futurefire, a blog about Japanese study written in German, so I went to check out her site.
I can&#8217;t read German but I&#8217;m sure it would be useful if you can. As you might expect from someone studying design the graphics are interesting. Check out the article [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.shiawase.co.uk/2008/01/22/haikugirls-japan/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Haikugirl&#8217;s Japan'>Haikugirl&#8217;s Japan</a></li>
<li><a href='http://www.shiawase.co.uk/2007/06/01/youtube/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: YouTube'>YouTube</a></li>
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		<link>http://www.shiawase.co.uk/2010/01/28/japanese-blog-in-german/</link>
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		<title>Regentag store grand opening</title>
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A good friend of mine, MiCAさん, has opened her brand new online fashion and accessory store, Regentag.
In Japan it&#8217;s customary at a shops opening for people to send large flower arrangements, and for the complex relationships and levels of patronage to kick in in supporting the new enterprise. To be honest I&#8217;m not exactly sure [...]


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		<link>http://www.shiawase.co.uk/2010/01/24/regentag-store-grand-opening/</link>
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		<title>More Heisig Musings</title>
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I never learn, so &#8220;once more unto the breach..&#8221;
I am interested in how people learn and the problems of kanji and language in particular.
The topic rises again and again on forums so I&#8217;ve been thinking a bit more about it. Instead of a long post into threads that have strayed and grown too long I [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.shiawase.co.uk/2008/02/17/adventures-in-heisig-week-2/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Adventures in Heisig • week 2'>Adventures in Heisig • week 2</a></li>
<li><a href='http://www.shiawase.co.uk/2008/10/27/heisig-revisited/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Heisig revisited'>Heisig revisited</a></li>
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		<link>http://www.shiawase.co.uk/2010/01/07/more-heisig-musings/</link>
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		<title>Japanese Childrens Kanji Book</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
These books have the usual unwieldy titles of so many Japanese books.
1行読んでおぼえる小学生必修1006漢字—低学年500漢字 and 1行読んでおぼえる小学生必修1006漢字—高学年506漢字. The idea behind them is quite simple though. You read one line per kanji to memorise if not all, at least most of its important readings. It&#8217;s similar to books written for Japanese second language learners like JLPT3 Kanji by Examples [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.shiawase.co.uk/2007/05/31/kanji-power/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Kanji Power'>Kanji Power</a></li>
<li><a href='http://www.shiawase.co.uk/2007/05/31/basic-japanese-sentence-patterns/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Basic Japanese Sentence Patterns'>Basic Japanese Sentence Patterns</a></li>
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		<link>http://www.shiawase.co.uk/2010/01/07/japanese-childrens-kanji-book/</link>
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		<title>Double Hibakusha Dies</title>
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Tsutomu Yamaguchi, who managed to have the bad luck to endure, or good luck to survive, both atomic bombings in Japan, passed away on Monday. He was only recognised officially as a dual survivor in March 2009. He was one of only 9 dual survivors and the only one to be officially recognised.
As these bombings [...]


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		<link>http://www.shiawase.co.uk/2010/01/06/double-hibakusha-dies/</link>
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		<title>New JLPT &#8211; more information</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I found some more information about the new JLPT exams starting in 2010. 
Firstly it seems not every exam centre will have twice yearly exams. It looks as if only centres in Japan,China and Korea will definitely offer it twice a year. SOAS in London seems to be keeping to December only. It&#8217;ll be worth [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.shiawase.co.uk/2007/08/15/jlpt-mock-test-level-3/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: JLPT Mock Test Level 3'>JLPT Mock Test Level 3</a></li>
<li><a href='http://www.shiawase.co.uk/2008/07/26/jlpt-changes-from-2010/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: JLPT Changes from 2010'>JLPT Changes from 2010</a></li>
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		<link>http://www.shiawase.co.uk/2010/01/06/new-jlpt-more-information/</link>
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