by Matthew

義を見てせざるは勇なきなり
ぎをみてせざるはゆうなきなり

which means:
道義を知る者が、正しいことと知りつつ、それをしないのは、ほんとうの勇気がないからだ。孔子の言葉。君子として恥ずべき事として挙げたことの一つ。語：義物事の理に叶った正しい筋道。道義。
If a person who knows moral principles, while knowing the right course of action, does not follow it, they are not truly brave. These are the words of Confucius （孔子・こうし）. As a man of virtue (君子・くんし）…. [I get stuck here...]
This bit 理に叶った is an idiom — means “be reasonable”. The rest of it stumps [...]

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by Matthew

I came upon the Kanji Clinic via their regular, but not so frequent, column in the Japan Times today. I have added a link in the side bar under (oddly enough) the heading, “Kanji”. Yes. Quite useful for some extra vocab, and so on.

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by Mojodon

Since this is my first post, I have no idea what I am gonna talk about but I guess I can start with a Kanji that has recently blown my mind away, in terms of making life a lot easier when living in Japan and also in terms of learning another side to Kanji.
Your average-billy-bob [...]

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