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Rabbit Island – It’s a Gas, Gas, Gas

Hi, blog. It has been too long between posts again, but it is October (and a particularly cloudy and wet one), which means tests and the H word. I’ve also been suffering from a stiff neck and a sporadic pain … Continue reading

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We Are The Invaders and Neuter Your Cats

Hi blog. A couple of very different articles. First, one from the BBC about dealing with raccoon dogs running feral in Sweden – too bad there is no Japanese language version of this to remind the locals that their native … Continue reading

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Splitting hairs? An adventure in Cross-Linguistic Naming

One of the interesting aspects of doing any anything nature-related in Japan is the difference in nomenclature between the English and Japanese languages. Most non-linguists tend to think in very absolute terms – generally along the lines that their language’s … Continue reading

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