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language Takumi Tohgu shows why most Japanese cannot read Kanji in cursive script form Andrew Yi

language Learn Kanji, one character a day, with this daily practice pad Mark Frauenfelder

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snow Watch these two guys in Japan remove a great deal of snow from a roof Mark Frauenfelder

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