Then, as I walked back to the Miyako Hybrid, the snow-white hotel, with its perfectly black parking lot and perfectly trimmed palm trees, looked more like a computer rendering of a building than a building itself. And that is veryJapanese.
2013 February 6, Hideo Otake, “Revising the Interpretation of theJapanese Economy”, in Michio Muramatsu, Frieder Naschold, editors,State and Administration in Japan and Germany: A Comparative Perspective on Continuity and Change[2], page319:
Japanese retail stores have strove to, and have succeeded in, fulfilling these severe demands, and in doing so, have constantly had to innovate both technologically and institutionally in order to keep up with the competition.
2020 March 7, Brad Lendon and Emiko Jozuka, “History’s deadliest air raid happened in Tokyo during World War II and you’ve probably never heard of it”, inCNN[3]:
As many as 100,000Japanese people were killed and another million injured, most of them civilians, when more than 300 American B-29 bombers dropped 1,500 tons of firebombs on theJapanese capital that night.
As with other terms for people formed with-ese, the countable singular noun in reference to a person (as in "I am a Japanese", "writing about Japanese cuisine as a Japanese") is uncommon and often taken as grammatically incorrect. In its place, the adjective is used, by itself (as in "I am Japanese") or before a noun likeperson,man, orwoman ("writing about Japanese cuisine as a Japanese person"). See also-ish, which is similarly only primarily used as anadjective or as aplural noun. However it is rather frequent inEast Asia as a translation for the demonym written日本人 (rìběnrén) inChinese or日本人(Nihonjin) inJapanese.
A language that is primarily spoken in East Asia and is the official language ofJapan.
I’ve been studyingJapanese for three years, and I still can’t order pizza in Tokyo!
2021 April 25, John Malathronas, “Which languages are easiest – and most difficult – for native English speakers to learn?”, inCNN[4]:
WhatJapanese you speak also depends on your gender. There’s a “rough” language for men and a more “ladylike” language for women, but you must understand both.
