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  2. Kansai dialect - Wikipedia

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    The standard Japanese copula da is replaced by the Kansai dialect copula ya. The inflected forms maintain this difference, resulting in yaro for darō (presumptive), yatta for datta (past); darō is often considered to be a masculine expression, but yaro is used by both men and women.

  3. Japanese profanity - Wikipedia

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    Japanese exhibits pronoun avoidance, meaning that using pronouns is often too direct in Japanese, and considered offensive or strange. [6] One would not use pronouns for oneself, 私 (watashi, 'I'), or for another, あなた (anata, 'you'), but instead would omit pronouns for oneself, and call the other person by name:

  4. Kabuki - Wikipedia

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    Kabuki switched to adult male actors, called yaro-kabuki, in the mid-1600s. [9] Adult male actors, however, continued to play both female and male characters, and kabuki retained its popularity, remaining a key element of the Edo period urban life-style.

  5. Baka (Japanese word) - Wikipedia

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    Based on semantic analyses of baka entries in Japanese dictionaries and thesauruses, the lexicographer Michael Carr differentiates eight interrelated meanings. [ 4 ] Three basic "fool; foolish" meanings distinguish baka 1 "ass; jerk; fool", baka 2 "ament; idiot; imbecile; fool" ( ament is a rare word for "congenitally mentally deficient"), and ...

  6. Kuso - Wikipedia

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    Kuso is a term used in East Asia for the internet culture that generally includes all types of camp and parody.In Japanese, kuso (糞,くそ,クソ) is a word that is commonly translated to English as curse words such as fuck, shit, damn, and bullshit (both kuso and shit refer to feces), and is often said as an interjection.

  7. Torakku Yarō - Wikipedia

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    The title Torakku Yaro means "truck guys" or "truck rascals", and the films involve two truckers and their various escapades as they travel around Japan in highly decorated trucks. The plot formula is similar to the Otoko wa Tsurai yo films. Each time Momojiro falls in love with a woman (the "Madonna") and then ends up having to help her ...

  8. Net Yaroze - Wikipedia

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    Sony Net Yaroze with software development kit. The Net Yaroze (ネットやろうぜ, Netto Yarōze) is a development kit for the PlayStation video game console.It was a promotion by Sony Computer Entertainment to computer programming hobbyists which launched in June 1996 in Japan [1] and in 1997 in other countries. [2]

  9. Shin'ya Shokudō - Wikipedia

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    Shin'ya Shokudō (深夜食堂, lit. ' Midnight Diner '), is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yarō Abe [].It was serialized in Shogakukan's seinen manga magazine Big Comic Original Zōkan from October 2006 to August 2007, before being transferred to Big Comic Original in August 2007.