Nagasaki trip
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| We took a group of students down to Nagasaki this weekend. It’s just a 2-hour drive, so we made it a day trip, leaving at 9am and getting back…
Indoor snowboarding school trip!
| A couple of weeks ago, GenkiJACS made our inaugural trip to the conveniently located indoor snowboarding arena Big Air, part of the Bayside Place complex in Hakata Bay. A…
School refurbishing for earthquake damage
| As you might know, Fukuoka suffered a fairly major earthquake in March of last year, its first in a long long time (and hopefully its last!). They finally got…
Japanese Names
| One of the teachers at our school recently had a baby, prompting us to think about some of the unique aspects of choosing names for infants in Japan. This…
Fukuoka Olympics: follow-up
| As a quick addition to our previous item about the Fukuoka 2016 Olympics bid, I thought I should post this photo, which tickled our collective funny-bone here. This is…
Japanese compound verbs
| One of the most interesting and flexible elements of Japanese is how verbs can be combined to create new words. In English, it’s quite rare for two verbs to…
GenkiJACS New Year’s Pledge: 5% of profit to UNICEF
| The new year is almost a quarter of the way done, but we finally managed to get our new year’s resolution done! GenkiJACS will donate 5% of all after-tax…
Nippon versus Nihon versus Japan
| It often takes foreigners in Japan a while to distinguish between the two ways of pronouncing the name of the country itself, “Nihon” and “Nippon”. First of all, they…
Hakata-ben kouza: “-ttai”
| What makes Fukuoka’s local dialect, Hakata-ben, different from standard Japanese? The single part of speech that symbolizes Hakata-ben for most people is the word “ttai” (or sometimes just “tai”).…
Photos of GenkiJACS Class at ALT Meeting
| GenkiJACS is proud to have been invited to present a class on Japanese gestures at the most recent Fukuoka JET ALT Meeting. Two teachers attended, and taught a 45-minute…