Daniel Morales
@howtojapanese.com
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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当日
当日 may be difficult to get a handle on at first, but that's potentially due to the fact that it can refer to any day in the past or future depending on context.
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Is Bluesky requiring age verification in Japan now?
December 10, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Is Bluesky requiring age verification in Japan now?
I picked up a can of this today. Looks like they are just hitting shelves and are super fresh. Historically I've enjoyed a good pepper beer, especially when paired with food.
What in the *actual* hell is this?!? An actual creative new thing, from ASAHI?!?
It’s a Christmas miracle!
It’s a Christmas miracle!
December 9, 2025 at 10:24 AM
I picked up a can of this today. Looks like they are just hitting shelves and are super fresh. Historically I've enjoyed a good pepper beer, especially when paired with food.
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"Leave the gun. Take the cannoli."
December 7, 2025 at 1:54 PM
"Leave the gun. Take the cannoli."
Having grown up in New Orleans and spent a large portion of my adult life in Japan, it's bizarre to me that most of the US doesn't allow outdoor drinking. But then I remember St. Patrick's Day in Chicago and realize why things are the way they are lol
December 6, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Having grown up in New Orleans and spent a large portion of my adult life in Japan, it's bizarre to me that most of the US doesn't allow outdoor drinking. But then I remember St. Patrick's Day in Chicago and realize why things are the way they are lol
The Sirens in Hades 2 are great but I wish they had one more song.
December 6, 2025 at 9:39 AM
The Sirens in Hades 2 are great but I wish they had one more song.
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Can someone tell these guys (these politicians and the pundits who boost them) that it is not November 2024 anymore? Abigail Spanberger, Mikie Sherrill, Zohran Mandani, and Aftyn Behn all likely won some Trump voters/2024 skippers. Update the talking points! 2028 is not only for white guys.
Josh Shapiro believes he is uniquely suited to win over Trump voters—but he’ll need to overcome distrust among some in his own party first, Tim Alberta reports: theatln.tc/mR9AHSG4
December 5, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Can someone tell these guys (these politicians and the pundits who boost them) that it is not November 2024 anymore? Abigail Spanberger, Mikie Sherrill, Zohran Mandani, and Aftyn Behn all likely won some Trump voters/2024 skippers. Update the talking points! 2028 is not only for white guys.
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If you're player is downloading a shorter episode, delete it from your podcast app and re-download it. You should get a new file I just uploaded.
With Metroid Prime 4 dropping mere hours before we recorded, we went for the next best thing: a bunch of games from the late 90s! Tune in for talk of Analogue 3D, Viewpoint 2064, 2D gaming on the PS1, and more—plus some current-century stuff like Ball x Pit and Lumines Arise. 8-4.jp/podcasts/202...
December 5, 2025 at 11:38 AM
If you're player is downloading a shorter episode, delete it from your podcast app and re-download it. You should get a new file I just uploaded.
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The President of the United States is trying to throw Mark Kelly in prison and Mark Kelly's response is to confirm judges who have committed to putting him in prison
11 Senate Democrats just voted to advance the nomination of a Federal Society judge who used to defend banks and payday lenders:
Durbin
Gallego
Hassan
Hirono
Kaine
Kelly
King
Klobuchar
Reed
Rosen
Whitehouse
Durbin
Gallego
Hassan
Hirono
Kaine
Kelly
King
Klobuchar
Reed
Rosen
Whitehouse
December 4, 2025 at 4:14 AM
The President of the United States is trying to throw Mark Kelly in prison and Mark Kelly's response is to confirm judges who have committed to putting him in prison
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One of the lowest points in US history - the president going on unhinged white supremacist rants in public appearance after public appearance, targeting a specific ethnic group - but because it’s Trump our political class is incapable of perceiving what it is and reacting appropriately
Trump: "It’s a hellhole right now. And those Somalians should be out of here. They've destroyed our country. And all they do is complain, complain, complain. You have her. She’s always talking about the Constitution provides me with – go back to your own country and figure out your constitution."
December 3, 2025 at 10:02 PM
One of the lowest points in US history - the president going on unhinged white supremacist rants in public appearance after public appearance, targeting a specific ethnic group - but because it’s Trump our political class is incapable of perceiving what it is and reacting appropriately
Kavanaugh should resign (for multiple reasons), and Democrats should be demanding that he do so.
Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
December 3, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Kavanaugh should resign (for multiple reasons), and Democrats should be demanding that he do so.
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Took some time to procrastinate on actually far more important things yesterday to rebuild my shop's website. It many rough edges, but finally show's the shop's hours, some pictures, and information about how to get here, plus our reservation link and our nascent web store www.nokucheese.com
Home - Nokucheese
当店では、チーズにぴったりの特製素朴なポテトブレッド、高品質な食材を使った素敵なオリジナルサンドイッチ、美味しいサイドディッシュ、アメリカンスタイルのチーズケーキ、キャロットケーキなどのスイーツを提供しています。
www.nokucheese.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Took some time to procrastinate on actually far more important things yesterday to rebuild my shop's website. It many rough edges, but finally show's the shop's hours, some pictures, and information about how to get here, plus our reservation link and our nascent web store www.nokucheese.com
Save mo money by eating moyashi.
I will never not be amazed that I can get a big bag of moyashi for like thirty yen. Feels wild to get a whole food for thirty yen!
December 3, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Save mo money by eating moyashi.
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Nayra Guzmán was 15 days post C-section — going to see her baby in the NICU — when she was taken to Broadview and held in custody for about 34 hours.
She slept on a bench and barely got food. She couldn't pump.
Her story is a rare window into the growing detention of pregnant & postpartum people.
She slept on a bench and barely got food. She couldn't pump.
Her story is a rare window into the growing detention of pregnant & postpartum people.
Her baby was in the NICU. She was in ICE detention.
Before Trump took office, postpartum immigrants were rarely detained by ICE. Nayra Guzmán was detained while her 15-day-old baby was in the NICU.
19thnews.org
December 2, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Nayra Guzmán was 15 days post C-section — going to see her baby in the NICU — when she was taken to Broadview and held in custody for about 34 hours.
She slept on a bench and barely got food. She couldn't pump.
Her story is a rare window into the growing detention of pregnant & postpartum people.
She slept on a bench and barely got food. She couldn't pump.
Her story is a rare window into the growing detention of pregnant & postpartum people.
It's important to remind everyone this year that Feliz Navidad is the only good Christmas song.
December 1, 2025 at 10:52 AM
It's important to remind everyone this year that Feliz Navidad is the only good Christmas song.
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Nice work to whoever came up with the exhibition title The Showa Must Go On. (At Hibiya Library)
December 1, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Nice work to whoever came up with the exhibition title The Showa Must Go On. (At Hibiya Library)
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I'm really glad to see someone like Kelly finally saying this. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Mark Kelly: "This president, when he says things like 'third world countries,' what is he really saying? I think what he's saying is he doesn't want brown people in our country. And that's disturbing. It's un-American."
November 30, 2025 at 4:29 PM
I'm really glad to see someone like Kelly finally saying this. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Donkey Kong Bananza is fun but I don't really feel like it's an all-time great. I find everything on the screen super busy and difficult to parse at times. It's got a little too much in it. I'm playing it here and there and will get to it eventually.
November 30, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Donkey Kong Bananza is fun but I don't really feel like it's an all-time great. I find everything on the screen super busy and difficult to parse at times. It's got a little too much in it. I'm playing it here and there and will get to it eventually.
Yes, rice is expensive now, but no one is saying anything about how cheap pork is in Japan. It's almost concerning.
November 30, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Yes, rice is expensive now, but no one is saying anything about how cheap pork is in Japan. It's almost concerning.
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The 教師と学習者のための日本語文型辞典 is a grammar dictionary for teachers and linguists that every intermediate and advanced learner of Japanese should get.
The explanations and examples are written for native Japanese speakers, which (I think) makes some complex grammar patterns easier to understand.
The explanations and examples are written for native Japanese speakers, which (I think) makes some complex grammar patterns easier to understand.
November 29, 2025 at 2:27 PM
The 教師と学習者のための日本語文型辞典 is a grammar dictionary for teachers and linguists that every intermediate and advanced learner of Japanese should get.
The explanations and examples are written for native Japanese speakers, which (I think) makes some complex grammar patterns easier to understand.
The explanations and examples are written for native Japanese speakers, which (I think) makes some complex grammar patterns easier to understand.
I woke up this morning and ate a whole bag of cheese. Not the best decision I've ever made, but also not the worst.
November 29, 2025 at 6:36 AM
I woke up this morning and ate a whole bag of cheese. Not the best decision I've ever made, but also not the worst.
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We're gonna need a truth and reconciliation commission and Nuremberg style trials to reckon with all of this evil, and any Dem candidate for office who shies away from a full reckoning in the name of "moving forward as a nation" can get well and truly fucked
I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
A Babson College student wanted to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. She was deported instead. - The Boston Globe
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was at Logan to catch a flight to Texas when immigration authorities detained her as she was about to board the plane.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:29 PM
We're gonna need a truth and reconciliation commission and Nuremberg style trials to reckon with all of this evil, and any Dem candidate for office who shies away from a full reckoning in the name of "moving forward as a nation" can get well and truly fucked
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Whether this was random street crime or targeted political violence, I think it was bad for the president to unnecessarily put the National Guard in harm’s way like this. They simply don’t need to be there.
November 26, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Whether this was random street crime or targeted political violence, I think it was bad for the president to unnecessarily put the National Guard in harm’s way like this. They simply don’t need to be there.
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clarence thomas has no jurisprudential argument, he just hates women and thinks the constitution doesn’t protect a varia suit
November 25, 2025 at 5:20 PM
clarence thomas has no jurisprudential argument, he just hates women and thinks the constitution doesn’t protect a varia suit
Newsletter is up! I wrote about 当日, a confusing word for new students, potentially because it can be any date in the past or present. newsletter.howtojapanese.com/tojitsu/
当日
当日 may be difficult to get a handle on at first, but that's potentially due to the fact that it can refer to any day in the past or future depending on context.
newsletter.howtojapanese.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Newsletter is up! I wrote about 当日, a confusing word for new students, potentially because it can be any date in the past or present. newsletter.howtojapanese.com/tojitsu/