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A recovered manuscript recounts the trials and tribulations of Eddie Trombone, an American gone missing in Japan.
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Teach Yourself Japanese: The Eddie Trombone Case

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Teach Yourself Japanese · 2W ago

39. Karma’s for Suckers

(Apologies for the lateness of this post. This is due to Japan’s Golden Week, a series of holidays no one knows the names of that stretches out for a week or so. I believe one of the holidays is Green Day, and I guess we’re supposed to go outside or something. Also somewhere in there [...]
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Teach Yourself Japanese · 1M ago

38. Culture Grind

His head turned slowly from side to side as he spoke, as if both neck and voice were driven by the same tiny motor, a motor that would occasionally stop, causing his head to abruptly freeze and his manicured ponytail … Continue reading →
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Teach Yourself Japanese · 2M ago

37. Life Raft

TV is like a life raft. It keeps you out of the deep. A man wearing sagging, off-white underpants stands in front of a TV studio audience. As instructed by a fully-clothed man next to him, he climbs over a … Continue reading →
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Teach Yourself Japanese · 3M ago

36. The Common Cold

There’s a folksy saying about the common cold that goes something like this: you can take cold medicine and get better in three days, or, if you don’t like that, you can skip the medicine and just wait the three … Continue reading →
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Teach Yourself Japanese · 3M ago

35. French Ventriloquism

French ventriloquists don’t make enough money. I don’t know how much these uncharacteristically steady-lipped Gauls earn at the moment, but it cannot be enough to compensate for the miracle of uttering with frozen face a language normally requiring such a … Continue reading →
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Teach Yourself Japanese · 4M ago

34. Freedom from Books

After admiring a sunrise that turned out to be a petroleum fire in the neighboring town, chatting a bit with a prison guard who kept a large, mounted machine gun trained on me the entire time, and then falling onto … Continue reading →
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Teach Yourself Japanese · 4M ago

33. A New Day

(Please pardon the delay in postings to this site, but my staff was absent for much of the holiday season. Mr. Kikuchi was visiting his ancestral home in the temple-studded, gently rolling hills of Nara Prefecture, and Mrs. Doyle won … Continue reading →
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Teach Yourself Japanese · 5M ago

32. The Confession

(Thanks to a writer’s block Mrs. Doyle claims to have encountered a page and a half into her recently begun debut novel, we are now able, with the grumbling and grudging help of the frustrated as-yet-to-be-published authoress, to pick up … Continue reading →
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Teach Yourself Japanese · 6M ago

31. Honesty is the Best Policy

(There simply is no excuse for the recent delay in postings to this site. But here is one anyway. Mrs. Doyle is working on a novel. When she first told me this, I thought she was using the word “novel” … Continue reading →
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Teach Yourself Japanese · 9M ago

30. The Book of Mormon

He used the kind of hand signals you see soldiers use in war movies–whirling his index finger in the air, clenching his fist, making a V with two fingers and pointing at his eyes, stuff like that–which was good because … Continue reading →
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