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Daniel Morales

@howtojapanese.com

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Translator, writer. How to get used to Japanese (Additional topics: Murakami, New Orleans, Chicago, beer, writing, translation, basketball). Based in Osaka. http://linktree.com/howtojapanese

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Daniel Morales @howtojapanese.com · 16d

The September newsletter is up. I wrote about some interesting Google search stats that suggest 〜ていただきありがとうございます is more commonly used than 〜てくださってありがとうございます...by a fairly large margin. newsletter.howtojapanese.com/itadaki/

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Make your thank yous more natural by reorienting the phrase around the receiving of the action rather than the giving.

newsletter.howtojapanese.com

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Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 18h

Precisely the person Justice Kavanaugh said would not be inconvenienced.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 18h

The entire incident is infuriating and terrifying. She’s a Latina woman who was working a service job. On her way home late at night, with her headphones in, she was detained for an hour by masked federal agents who wouldn’t give her their names.

Maria Greeley, 44, had just finished working a double shift at the Beach Bar on Ohio Street
earlier this month when she said she was surrounded by three federal agents who grabbed her, forced her hands behind her back and zip tied her.
Headphones in, Greeley had been focused on getting home to her two dogs for a walk.
Instead, she said she was detained by masked agents who did not answer when she asked for names. They questioned her for an hour, she said.

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Daniel Morales @howtojapanese.com · 17h

That was super eye opening. What a benefit to have at work!!!

Daniel Morales @howtojapanese.com · 19h

Finally got around to reading this. Cool to learn that Ferrante didn't write in dialect. I always wondered that when I was reading the English.

✦ @mnchrm.co · 5d

Would've been great! I just interviewed Ann Goldstein, translator of the Neapolitan Quartet:
chireviewofbooks.com/2025/10/06/t...

The Translator’s Voice — Ann Goldstein on Translating Elena Ferrante’s “Neapolitan Quartet” - Chicago Review of Books

The Translator’s Voice is a monthly column from Ian J. Battaglia here at the Chicago Review of Books, dedicated to global literature and the translators who work tirelessly and too often thanklessly t...

chireviewofbooks.com

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Daniel Morales @howtojapanese.com · 20h

That's kind of what I was thinking. Thanks!

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Jennifer Sherman @jaasherman.bsky.social · 1d

My team at Square Enix Manga & Books is hiring for a junior editorial position! If you have questions, feel free to ask~

jobsearch.createyourowncareer.com/PRH_US/job/A...

Assistant Editor, Manga (Open to Remote)

jobsearch.createyourowncareer.com

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Daniel Morales @howtojapanese.com · 21h

Question for former JETs, or anyone who's taught in Japan/applied to teaching programs. If you were given an alternate position but ultimately not selected to go on JET, would you include that in your application essay for the following year? If so, how prominently would you feature it?

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 1d

There were at least two ceasefires under Biden! In which more than five times as many living Israeli hostages were released in exchange for 240 Palestinians! Has everyone forgotten this?

Coffee Indiana @coffeeindiana.bsky.social · 1d

Also, ceasefires have happened under prior Presidents! The day he gets Palestine their own country he can be told he's the most special boy deserving of a shiny prize.

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W. David Marx @wdavidmarx.bsky.social · 22h

Yet again @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social of Garbage Day manages to describe the roots of our global cultural predicament in a single paragraph. This is from today's essay on the manosphere turning against Trump:

www.garbageday.email/p/the-great-...

But their blatant stupidity is why they’re so popular. It’s the uncomfortable truth underpinning pretty much everything that’s happened in pop culture — including politics — since the 2010s social media revolution. The online platforms that created our new world, run on likes and shares and comments and views, reshaped the marketplace of ideas into an attention economy. One that, like a real economy, is full of very popular garbage. And, also like a real economy, is now so vast and important that it’s virtually impossible to change it. If you want access to it, you better get comfortable making lowest-common-denominator bullshit in front of a camera. And, of course, it’s a lot easier to feel good about doing that if you’re an idiot.

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 1d

For those who don’t intimately understand how news works and why Bari Weiss’s unearned elevation to head of CBS News matters, I’d recommend watching this in entirety. Also, will forever point out irony of how an admitted DEI hire thinks her hire was meritorious while Black people’s aren’t.

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

Holy shit go off John Oliver youtu.be/gieTx_P6INQ?...

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

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Daniel Morales @howtojapanese.com · 1d

Anyone have recommendations for オーブンレンジ in Japan? Need a new one that's more powerful than my current one. Seems like they only get up to 250C if you get a model with microwave features. Don't have enough space for a separate oven and microwave.

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 2d

So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

For weeks, Mr. Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who is married to a U.S. citizen, has made clear that he would not challenge his deportation if he were sent to Costa Rica, which has promised him legal residency and guaranteed that he would not be sent back to El Salvador.

But the Trump administration has refused to deport him to Costa Rica, and in an earlier hearing this week, Judge Xinis pressed the administration to consider the option or clarify why it was unacceptable.

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Daniel Morales @howtojapanese.com · 2d

I don't usually drink Sapporo (I'll never forgive them for ditching Anchor Brewing), but I wanted to see what this was all about. And it's actually a decent lager. Very full bodied and bitter compared to the usual stuff. It's baked potato night in Osaka.

A can of Sapporo's new Extra Think lager poured into a glass with a baked potato and a bowl of beans and rice in the background.

Daniel Morales @howtojapanese.com · 2d

I was fully prepared to hate on this beer, but somehow...it lives up to the name? It's basically a Sierra Nevada Pale Ale knock off. Maybe a tad less hoppy/bitter, but those elements are still present. It doesn't hold back.

Kirin's new "Good Ale" beer in a 12oz can poured into a glass with frothy white foam.

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Kevin Reuning @reuning.bsky.social · 3d

Trump straight up murdering people in the Caribbean and the NYT writes this

The Trump Split Screen: A Peacemaker Abroad, a Retribution Campaign at Home

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 3d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 4d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Matt Alt @mattalt.bsky.social · 3d

I actually think this mindset is key to the whole enterprise. It is certainly key to anime’s authenticity.

For too long we’ve seen “Galapagos” used to denigrate Japan’s inward focus. But in a world gone crazy, it has made Japan (and things from Japan) an oasis. Stay tuned for more about this soon.

Daniel Morales @howtojapanese.com · 3d

Fascinating: "When I asked the editor of a major manga magazine how much thought they gave to foreign consumers when planning new series, they told me none — because how would they know what foreign people wanted?"

Matt Alt @mattalt.bsky.social · 4d

“Very few people here in America have the balls to do what anime does,” a veteran Hollywood animation director told me.

blog.pureinventionbook.com/p/why-hollyw...

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Matt Alt @mattalt.bsky.social · 4d

“Very few people here in America have the balls to do what anime does,” a veteran Hollywood animation director told me.

blog.pureinventionbook.com/p/why-hollyw...

Why Hollywood stars are saying “F*** anime”

And why they’re right to be scared

blog.pureinventionbook.com

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 3d

"Republicans blocked paying the troops during the shutdown but found $20 billion to bail out Argentina's bad crypto investments" should be the sort of thing that leads every local newscast, but...

Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 4d

A few minutes ago in the House:

- Speaker Mike Johnson officially cancels votes next week, extending the House recess through a fourth week

- House Republicans block Democrats from passing a bill to pay the troops during the shutdown, ensuring they will miss paychecks next week

House Press Gallery: During today's pro forma session, the Clerk read a message from the Speaker designating Tuesday, October 14 through Sunday, October 19 as a district work period.

Punchbowl's Briana Reilly: House gaveled in and out of its pro forma just now w/o recognizing Rep Elfreth, who was seeking to UC a mil pay bill from Rep Sykes.

Elfreth told reporters after that House Dems stand “ready and willing to take” up standalone legislation to pay troops.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 4d

Donald Trump is not a king — and his administration is not above the law.

Today, the court confirmed what we all know: there is no credible evidence of a rebellion in the state of Illinois.

And no place for the National Guard in the streets of American cities like Chicago.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 5d

Stephen Miller is murdering Venezuelans and Colombians in cold blood bc he believes it helps his propaganda campaign to paint Latinos as dangerous.

www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Stephen Miller views the air strikes as an opportunity to paint immigrants as a dangerous menace, according to one of the White House officials.

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Daniel Morales @howtojapanese.com · 5d

Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai is the winner.

Daniel Morales @howtojapanese.com · 5d

An Elena Ferrante win would make me super happy.

Daniel Morales @howtojapanese.com · 5d

Livestream here: www.youtube.com/live/SaWVus4...

Announcement of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature

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Daniel Morales @howtojapanese.com · 5d

Join me for another year of Murakami not winning the Nobel Prize.

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Daniel Morales @howtojapanese.com · 6d

I use Scrivener to draft everything. Can't recommend highly enough. Does require some finesse if you want to output large projects exactly as you want into Office formats but I managed it for the book I self published.