Comme ça du Japon

I have been living in Japan for several years already. First I was living in Sendai, north-east of Japan and in the Chiba area since october 2006. This is a different Japan. By comparison, Sendai, despite its one million and a half inhabitants, could be mistaken for the country side. Just an example that says […]

I just can’t get tired of learning the Japanese language. One of the main reason that makes learning Japanese language such a thrill is discovering words like とかく (ToKaKu). Here is the sentence that made me look up this strange word in my electronic dictionnary.

いずれにしても、先輩や年長者の言うことは、傾聴するに値するといった戒めですが、とかく若い人たちは年長者を尊敬するよりも、軽くみるといった風潮が強くあります。

Izure ni shite mo, senpai ya nenchôsha no iu koto ha, […]