English-speaking travelers to Japan are now being overwhelmed by a new communications hazard. Rather than a lack of English causing problems, just the opposite is happening. Japan is producing English, and too much of it. Mystifying, home-grown Japanese English.
Like its famous manga and anime, the whole country is awash in . . . read on >>
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