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Governor of Tokyo wants people to stop saying the old term because paternal leave is not a vacation.
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We have it all? Keep your mouth shut about our poor selection? It could go either way, because of a Japanese language quirk.
Katakana is usually for foreign words, but there’s a whole class of Japanese-grown rice that has katakana names.
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