Thursday, February 24, 2022

しかた が ない

 February 24, 2022 – Thursday

令和4年2月24日 ― 木曜日

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3X日本語で、1X英語で (ひらがな と カタカナ  only – You don’t have to write the 漢字

しかた が ない    It can’t be helped (Fatalism)

我慢(がまん)する   To endure, to bear

お見合い (おみあい)   Formal introductory meeting for an

               arranged marriage

てんのう へいか ばんざい 

              May his Imperial Majesty live

              10,000 years  天皇陛下万歳

組合い(くみあい)   Labor union

スト(ライキ)する   To strike (Industrial, labor)

反戦(はんせん)デモ  Anti-war demonstration

 

A.  Thought experiment:  Mr. Kawamura, like many Japanese-American civic leaders on the West Coast, was arrested and imprisoned in Fort Lincoln even before his family was sent to the internment camp. What might he have written in a 日本語の手紙 to Mrs. Kawamura?

 

B. Nakama Ch. 12, page 407, top

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