To: NormsRevenge
fyi Fuji-San means Mr. Fuji. Fuji-Yama means Mount Fuji. I live in Japan and I used to see streets and sidewalks as clean as Singapores. Then the Enviroweenies came and now we have to separate everything by color coded bags that we have to pay for. People got fed up and now I see trash that has been thrown from car windows all over. Its a shame what the Enviros did to the environment.
5 posted on
06/08/2007 9:38:23 PM PDT by
tonuki
(Tonuki from Japan. (Not Tanuki))
To: tonuki
Its a shame what the Enviros did to the environment. Great line!
6 posted on
06/08/2007 9:41:21 PM PDT by
SIDENET
("You knew the job was dangerous when you took it, Fred")
To: tonuki
Correct about the -san, -yama. Pretty basic Japanese.
9 posted on
06/08/2007 10:02:38 PM PDT by
stormer
(Get your bachelors, masters, or doctorate now at home in your spare time!)
To: tonuki
And if you think Japan has problems, go poke around Beijing. Makes Tokyo look like a hospital. I had a Beijing traffic cop tell my to put out my cigarette because smoking on the streets is forbidden. LOL. Just breathing the air is like chaining a pack of Chesterfields in about a half an hour.
10 posted on
06/08/2007 10:05:48 PM PDT by
stormer
(Get your bachelors, masters, or doctorate now at home in your spare time!)
To: tonuki
san also means mountain. It's the Chinese reading of the character.
17 posted on
06/09/2007 12:01:10 AM PDT by
VanShuyten
("By the simple exercise of our will, we can exert a power for good practically unbounded, etc, etc.")
To: tonuki
fyi Fuji-San means Mr. Fuji. Fuji-Yama means Mount Fuji.My Japanese dictionary says "san" is another reading for and means "mount" as in Mount Fuji.
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