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相合傘, means two people sharing one umbrella.
相合傘 has a strong romantic implication, stemming in part from a play on words. The first two characters are pronounced あい (ai), the same as the word 愛 (ai, “love”), and thus the connotation is that both people under the umbrella are in love.
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As a Japanese native, the only foreign language I studied at school was basically English.
However, as part of my ancient Japanese language education, I studied classical Chinese literature written in Chinese characters, from which hiragana and other Japanese characters are derived, so ancient Chinese might also be included in the list of foreign languages I learned.
「マンガ肉」
This is what you would call “Manga Meat” in English, an iconic piece of meat on the bone that often appears in anime, manga, games, and other works in Japanese subculture.
I would love to bite into this hearty meat like the cartoon characters someday.
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Yes. I am a feminist, though I am skeptical.
Some feminists argue(Article in Japanese) that the gender equality brought about by feminism also liberates men from the suffering unique to them.
I take a similar stance, believing that the ‘gender equality’ brought about by male feminism, which seeks happiness for men, also liberates women from the suffering unique to them. In some ways, I am a reactionary feminist.
Previously, I was a male feminist with old-fashioned thinking, striving to eliminate only women’s suffering, not men’s.
However, I changed my mind after the Japanese government, where I live, adopted a policy of allocating “female admission quotas” at prestigious universities, including national universities, as part of its affirmative action program, modeled on America’s racial admission quotas.
Even back when I supported traditional feminism, I was critical of the current state of university education in Japan, where there are public women’s universities but no public men’s universities. I also believe that expanding these quotas to general universities would violate the Constitution, which proclaims gender equality. I cannot trust traditional Japanese feminism, which supports the unconstitutional status quo, and that is why I have become the skeptical feminist I mentioned earlier.
In Japanese, the English phrase “12 years old” is written as ‘12歳’ or “12才”.
Both “歳” and ‘才’ are read as “sai,” and “歳” is the standard form.
As an exception, since children in elementary education typically learn the character “歳” before “才,” it is sometimes common to write ages as “12才” during the period after learning ‘才’ but before learning “歳.”
reference:
「年齢」を「年令」、「○歳」を「○才」と書くことがありますが、正式にはどうなのでしょうか？｜漢字文化資料館 (Article in Japanese)