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Prehistoric Japanese News
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What's in a Word
 In 1997-98, I wrote a monthly column for Japan Currents magazine, with a Japanese and English-speaking readership - "What's in a Word" - with some light linguistic musings on both English and Japanese topics, many of which I've posted here. They were published with Japanese translations, which may appear here someday, as well:
My (Japanese-related) "What's in a Word" columns in
Japan Currents:
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Numbers and Classifiers
Here's a chart I made which compares American and Japanese higher numbers. [Japanese character are in Unicode (utf-8), so they should appear correctly on most post-2000 browsers.]
It seems like every Japanese dictionary and encyclopedia has collected a different set of the Japanese "numeral classifiers." The definition is fairly broad, ranging to almost "any word which can directly follow a number." Here's a list of some 500, casting a very fine net, including measurements and currencies which should probably be regarded separately. Many are, certainly, archaic. (The Japanese characters are in Unicode, so the list should be readable with any browser. [Mac requires OSX]) It's probably the largest such list to be found anywhere.
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Japanese Language Books
An illustrated list of various Japanese Language books... for study, reference, amusement... large cover scans, sample pages, introductory sections... indexed by title, author, publisher, type...
 252 Japanese Language Books
An index to all the Japanese words and phrases discussed in the Mizutanis' Nihongo Notes series, Affective Expressions in Japanese, and Japanese Words and their Uses.
Nihongo Notes Index
A linguistic dissertation by R. Edward Smith, U.H. 1980
Natural Phonology of Japanese
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PREHISTORIC JAPANESE NEWS
from The Japan Times 1997-2002
| - | Jomon-period lacquer items destroyed in Hokkaido fire | 12/30/02 |
| - | Site of faked finds may be cut from historic list | 5/28/02 |
| - | Archaeological probe dismisses 'findings' of disgraced Fujimura | 5/27/02 |
| -1,900 | Ruins of structures shed new light on second-century culture | 12/8/01 |
| -1,100 | Filming reveals gold leaf use at Kitora tomb | 12/8/01 |
| -6,400 | Joint research team finds world's oldest bricks | 11/3/01 |
| - | Family sues magazine over suicide | 11/2/01 |
| - | Archaeoloical 'finds' proved bogus | 10/12/01 |
| -2,100 | Tawayama find hints kanji introduced in Yayoi Period | 10/5/01 |
| - | Bogus archaeologist exposed again | 10/5/01 |
| - | Archaeologist admits faking another 'find' | 10/1/01 |
| -15,000 | First Americans linked to Jomon | 8/1/01 |
| - | Archaeology experts believe Obanazawa dig questionable | 7/25/01 |
| - | Scholars devise method to gauge stone tools' age | 6/6/01 |
| -1,800 | Nara mound is confirmed as the oldest of its kind | 5/31/01 | | -5,000 | Timber find may be oldest yet | 5/14/01 | | - | More dirt unearthed in Adachi | 5/8/01 |
| -2,100 | Burial mound discovered in Kyoto thought to date back to Yayoi Period | 5/25/01 | | -1,900 | Yayoi brain tissue preserved in ruins | 4/17/01 |
| - | Allegations of faked findings spur archaeologist's suicide | 3/11/01 |
| - | Faked digs put archaeologists on defensive | 1/28/01 |
| - | Disgraced archaeologist denies other findings were also faked | 12/21/00 |
| - | More doubts over archaeologist's 'finds' | 11/19/00 |
| - | Archaeology institute sorry for researcher's faked finds | 11/7/00 |
| - | Fraudulent archaeology (editorial) (Mainichi Shimbun) | 11/7/00 |
| - | Fake discoveries shock archaeologists (Mainichi Shimbun) | 11/7/00 |
| - | Dirty digger unearthed (Mainichi Shimbun) | 11/6/00 |
| - | Renowned archaeologist admits to planting finds | 11/6/00 |
| -1,700 | Archaeologists unearth settlement mentioned in Wei Chronicle | 11/4/00 |
| -1,500 | Spread-winged bird dug up at Shijo Ruinss | 11/2/00 |
| -600,000 | Ancient dwellings found in Miyagi (Mainichi Shimbun)) | 10/24/00 |
| -600,000 | Archaeologists find 'oldest' habitation | 10/24/00 |
| -1,700 | Yayoi beads, accessories discovered in Kyoto tomb | 10/14/00 |
| -2,100 | Urn reveals oldest image of whaling | 6/1/00 |
| -1,400 | Asuka sluice find backs H20 theories | 5/25/00 |
| -1,000 | Unearthed pillar suggests 48-meter shrine | 4/29/00 |
| -24,000 | Relic believed to represent female form | 4/26/00 |
| -1,500 | Pristine clay carving hints at ancient funerary rites | 4/11/00 |
| -1,800 | Nara tomb discovery may stir debate over site of Queen Himiko's realm | 3/29/00 |
| -1,800 | Ancient burial chamber may be oldest in Japan | 3/28/00 |
| -1,400 | Saimei-era plaza found in Nara | 2/24/00 |
| -500,000 | Dig yields trace of 500,000-year-old house | 2/22/00 |
| -1,700,000 | Wolf fossil find dated to 1.7 million years | 1/19/00 |
| -5,000 | Remains of Jomon era village found | 11/12/99 |
| -1,800 | Archaeologists say mound may hold third century king | 9/16/99 |
| -2,400 | Japanese roots surprisingly shallow | 8/31/99 |
| -1,200 | 8th century enjoyed 15 rice strains | 7/27/99 |
| -350,000 | Discovery of tools puts primitive man in Saitama | 6/17/99 |
| -2,200 | Mold for bronze tools thought to be oldest found | 5/11/99 |
| -2,500 | Jomon smile at Tosa dig | 3/27/99 |
| -1,300 | Coin found in Nagano confirmed as Fuhonsen | 3/24/99 |
| -2,000 | Yayoi linked to Yangtze area | 3/19/99 |
| -6,000 | Oldest oar unearthed from Ishikawa ruins | 2/10/99 |
| -3,000 | Dogs suspected as Jomon-era pets | 2/10/99 |
| -2,500 | Wooden hoes may be nation's oldest | 1/21/99 |
| -1,300 | Old currency prompted by Tang threat | 1/21/99 |
| -1,300 | Ancient coins alter Japan's cash history | 1/20/99 |
| -2,000 | Yayoi remains found in Tohoku | 1/20/99 |
| -20,000 | Fossilized tusk unearthed in Shiga | 11/25/98 |
| -1,800 | Ancient bell found in Kyushu | 11/20/98 |
| -600,000 | Tools may be oldest in Japan | 11/4/98 |
| -11,000 | Oya skeleton may be Jomon Period's oldest | 7/7/98 |
| -2,000 | Yayoi stone heaps found in Kagawa | 4/19/98 |
| -3,500 | 3,500-year-old Chinese script found on bones | 3/31/98 |
| -18,000 | Stone Age relics found in Hokkaido | 10/15/97 |
| -5,500 | Excavation illuminating Jomon life | 10/7/97 |
| -25,000 | Stone knives date back 25,000 years | 10/3/97 |
| -6,000 | 6,000-year-old Hokkaido farm? | 8/21/97 |
| -6,000 | Archaeologists say 6,000-year-old tomb found in Hunan | 8/13/97 |
| -10,000 | Ancient earthenware found | 7/26/97 |
| -9,500 | Early Jomon hamlet found | 5/27/97 |
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