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Relations between China and Japan have hit the lowest point in decades as the two feud over access to oil and gas reserves in the East China Sea, Japan's steps to strengthen its strategic alliance with the United States, and newly revised history textbooks that China says gloss over atrocities Japan committed when it occupied China during World War II.

当长期不和的中日两国就中国东海油气开发、日本逐步走向加强与美国的战略联盟，以及日本最近修改教科书致使中国认为其掩盖日本在二战期间占领中国时所犯下的暴行这些问题发生争吵时，两国关系降到了最近几十年来的最低点。

TheJapanese proposition of"the economic rim of the Sea of Japan"is designed formultilateral economic cooperation based on Soviet resources,Japanese and SouthKorean capital and technology,and Chinese and Korean labour force with Japan playing the leading role.

日本的日本海经济圈设想的主要内容是苏联出资源、日本和南朝鲜出资金技术、中国和朝鲜出劳动力，开展以日本为主导的经济合作。

It analyses the reflection of Japanese rice-growing culture, and then illustrates Japanese group consciousness came into being in a"fertile soil"of Japanese rice-growing culture. This is the purpose of the paper.

通过对日本稻作农耕社会的描述，分析日本稻作文化的表现，进而阐论日本稻作文化是孕育集团意识的土壤，是本文的趣旨所在。

Analyst Ken Davies of the Economist Intelligence Unit says the govenment is eager to win the support of the country's right wing voters who want to see Japan defend its interests overseas.

The Economist Intelligence Unit的分析家肯。戴维斯认为日本右翼选民希望政府维护日本在海外的利益，而日本政府也急于获得这部分选民的支持。

Finally, I want to use the above analysis on the Japanese education in Taiwan, hoping that the except for realizing the basic functions of kara, Japanese learners in Taiwan can also learn from the daily conversations of Japanese their unique speaking habits and put it into practice.

最后，笔者将以上分析运用到台湾日本语教育上，希望台湾日语学习者习得接续助词「カラ」的基本机能外，也希望学习者能够从日本人日常会话中学习到日本人独特的说话习惯并且加以运用。

We have seen that the combined evidence of archeology, physical anthropology, and genetics supports the transparent inte

我们已经看到，考古学、人类生理学和遗传学的复合证据构筑起了对相貌特殊的阿伊努人和形貌寻常的日本人共享日本这一事实的明晰解释：阿伊努人传承了日本原住民的血脉，而所说的日本人则是在更近的年代来到列岛者的后裔。

Abroad and at home, Mr Koizumi is more familiar than both. His sleight-of-hand was to appear to be running against his own Liberal Democratic Party when he was running for it. Yet Mr Koizumi paid mostly only lip-service to the idea of smashing the post-war system in which LDP factions had monopolised—and more recently paralysed—political decisions.

事实上，不管是在国内还是国外，前首相小泉的知名度都要高于鸠山和小泽，尽管他的某些政治策略从表面上看似乎同他的政党，日本自由民主党相悖，然而在打破日本战后自民党垄断政治局面（近来日本政局的情况更是越来越糟）的问题上，这位前首相基本上是只说不做。

In a superficial sense, they seem more obviously Japanese: despite the visible influence of Wyler and Toland, their dominant style - high-angle shots with actors set against landscapes and dispersed throughout the frame - is reminiscent of classical Japanese painting. But one may surmise that the choice of this style was partly motivated by a desire on Mizoguchi's part to create a recognisably Japanese aesthetic for foreign consumption.

从某种表面意义上看，这些影片看起来带有更易察觉的日本特征：尽管它们明显受到了惠勒与托兰德的影响，但其主导风格（即演员以风景为背景、散落于画面各处的俯角镜头）令人回想起日本古典绘画；不过人们也可以猜测，沟口健二之所以选择这种风格，部分是受到了他希望创造出一种能为外国消费者所辨识的日本美学这一愿望的驱动。

S elder statesman, he sees himself as the person to close the gap between young entrepreneurs and Japan's business Establishment.

作为日本企业的领军人物，他把他自己看成是一座桥梁，一座沟通日本年轻企业家与日本传统企业模式的桥梁。

Blue Sky has created a school in Anshan City, the only formal training in Japanese schools; only reception in Japan Amagasaki City Council and city leaders led a study tour of the training school; the only Japanese school teachers; only with the Japanese Cooperation in Running Schools units; only is the scene of large-screen interactive teaching Japanese unit.

蓝天学校创造了鞍山市唯一一家正规培训日语的学校；唯一接待日本尼崎市议员访华团及市领导参观学习的培训学校；唯一一家有日本外教的学校；唯一与日本合作办学的单位；唯一一家是大屏幕日语情景互动教学的单位。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。