Japanese Seasonal Beer - Aki aji

In Japan, beer company launches seasonal limited beer aside from standard line up. Those are only sold 1-2month in each season. I've been to a lot of contries, but I haven't seen seasonal one exept in Japan. Does any other country have? If so, please introduce me!

Normally, Seasonal beer is not sold in the bar. So you have to buy it in convenience stores.Why don't you try when you come to Japan?



The beer on the picture is Autumn Limited Beer "Akiaji" which means Autumn taste. If you can tell seasonal limited beer by the picrue on the cans, but if you know kanji of Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter you'll never miss.

hiragana1

Hirakana is Japanese basic charactor. They are constructed by 46 characters and express pronunciation. Languages using alphabet like English basically express puronaunciation by combination of vowel and consonant, but hiragana express that combination by one character.(There are some exceptions.)

They don't have any meaning by each characters itself. Title of this topic is kanji which means hiragana. Every word written by kanji can be also written by hiragana.

Hiragana is pretty simple and easy to remember, comparing to kanji. I give you complete list of hiragana so that you can try writing Japanese.

For example "hirakana". First divide word into hirakana combination of vowel and consonant like this. "hi - ra - ka - na". Then find character from list and write!

It's pretty easy to write hiragana, but there is some difficulty to convert English names or words into hiragana. If you want, use ninja name database. This will convert your name not only to hiragana but also into KANJI!

Japanese beer

This is about Japanese beer. In Japanese, beer is called "bakushu", if we write in kanji. This means malt liquor. But we normally says "biiru" which is beer in Japanese pronunciation. In the bar or restaurants, it's written in katakana like below.

In Japanese law, beer must use more than 66.7% malt as its material. So if malt is less than 66.7%, we can not call it beer, but less alcohol tax instead. Beer with less than 66.7% malt is called "happoushu" which means sparkling liquor. Try, when you come to Japan!

Draft beer is called "nama biiru" in Japanese. "nama biiru" means "rare beer". If you want draft beer in bar or restaurants in Japan, say only "Nama!". Nama means rare , but you'll get cold draft beer.

Japanese characters

Recently Japanese foods, animation is getting popular, Japanese characters are often seen in all over the world. I often see tatoo in Japanese. Some guys in Olympic had tatoo in Japanese. But I often find wrong Japanese and a lot of people can't tell Japanese and Chinese.

In this topics I'll write about Japanese Characters. First, there are 3 kinds of characters in Japanese. They are "Kanji", "Hiragana" and "Katakana". Most Japanese can write more than 1,000 Kanjis. Can you imagine to learn 1,000 characters by heart? I can also write Kanji, but still I can't believe that I can. I'll write the difference of those characters in different topics which will be comming soon!

If you want to convert your name to Japanese, visit NinjaNameService!

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I'm Bonin!This blog is from Japan by Ninja to let world know about Japan.If anyone has question about Japan, leave comment in this blog!Then, I'll create a topics to resolve.I'll give you the first shocking information about Japan.There is no more ninja in Japan.And accurately, I'm not a real ninja.