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  • Live rough

    Live rough

    WotD: Live rough I’ve travelled a lot in my time, but some of the biggest shocks and most vivid memories I have are of seeing people live rough on the streets of big cities. I grew up in a small rural town of about 1,200 people. There were no homeless. Yes, there were a lot of poor…

  • Stopgap

    Stopgap

    Word of the Day: Stopgap A stopgap is a temporary solution, such as emergency repairs,  to a problem until a better, and a more permanent solution can be found. When we have a typhoon in Japan, there are usually small landslides that block roads. These small landslides are immediately removed, and the roads opened, but…

  • Tarpaulin

    Tarpaulin

    Word of the Day: Tarpaulin In Japan, everybody has seen the ubiquitous’ ‘blue sheet.’ Not many Japanese, though, know its English name. Well, I’m here today to tell you that a ‘blue sheet’ is called a tarpaulin (tarp for short). I’m also going to tell you that they are not all blue. Farmers and construction…