r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/toko_tane • 1d ago

Beginner [Beginner] Pfft! Typical...

29 Upvotes

Seen at Ikebukuro's Animate

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r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/loveandsea • 2d ago

Beginner [Beginner] a play on kanji

134 Upvotes

7 comments

r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/sempai_squad • Aug 01 '26

Intermediate [Intermediate] Miyazaki's reaction after Isao Takahata gave Nausicaä movie “30/100 points” valuation, illustrated by Takeshi Honda

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r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/redditispoopoofucku • Jul 30 '26

Intermediate [intermediate] wild typography on a shirt from a 90s graphic designer

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64 Upvotes

I found one of these shirts and I'm very curious about what the text reads

6 comments

r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/BrokenKamera • Jul 20 '26

Intermediate [Intermediate] Stop ✋

133 Upvotes

27 comments

r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/Chiafriend12 • Jul 18 '26

Intermediate [Intermediate]Was riding my bicycle somewhere in Osaka City at night, I got lost, literally no idea where this was lol

49 Upvotes

8 comments

r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/Chiafriend12 • Jul 18 '26

Advanced [Advanced]Exploring an abandoned, cheaply constructed 1960s apartment building at night during its demolition

21 Upvotes

10 comments

r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/Chiafriend12 • Jul 18 '26

Intermediate [Intermediate]You put this on rice before eating

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1 comment

r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/Chiafriend12 • Jul 18 '26

Intermediate [Intermediate]Posted on the side of a building, middle of the night

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r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/Chiafriend12 • Jul 03 '26

Intermediate [Intermediate] Some Japanese on the box of this model set (kind of small, might have to zoom)

12 Upvotes

3 comments

r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/Chiafriend12 • Jun 28 '26

Intermediate [Intermediate] What kind of music do you listen to?

207 Upvotes

21 comments

r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/iceysea • Jun 14 '26

Beginner [Beginner] up and down

52 Upvotes

6 comments

r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/VulpineNexus • Jun 04 '26

Beginner [Beginner] hiring one person to teach us JAPANESE 🎌 will pay per one hour lesson Spoiler

0 Upvotes

0 comments

r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/ModernirsmEnjoyer • May 26 '26

Intermediate [Intermediate] An annoyed sign

88 Upvotes

14 comments

r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/Chiafriend12 • May 26 '26

Intermediate [Intermediate]Email I received today

16 Upvotes

4 comments

r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/BrokenKamera • May 01 '26

Beginner [Beginner] Whoa There!

97 Upvotes

12 comments

r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/BrokenKamera • Apr 13 '26

Beginner [Beginner] @#%!

153 Upvotes

13 comments

r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/Chiafriend12 • Mar 28 '26

Beginner [Beginner]Google Photos decided to show me this photo I took. This was in some covered shopping street somewhere in Osaka City that I got lost and ended up in one day. The name is kind of a pun, kind of

5 Upvotes

1 comment

r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/Thank_Japan • Mar 24 '26

Beginner 餃子(ぎょうざ)[Beginner]

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r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/Thank_Japan • Mar 23 '26

Beginner Tsukemen(つけ麺)[Beginner]

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r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/Chiafriend12 • Mar 16 '26

Advanced [Advanced]I collect postcards. This is one of my favorites. Someone travelled to New York from Japan in the 1930s it appears

209 Upvotes

24 comments

r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/fenakit • Mar 08 '26

Beginner [Beginner] food names, but hardcore because of handwriting style

52 Upvotes

4 comments

r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/fenakit • Mar 08 '26

Beginner [Beginner] food names, but harder because of handwriting style

45 Upvotes

5 comments

r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/fenakit • Mar 08 '26

Intermediate [Intermediate] ?

11 Upvotes

Sign for the wood museum, in the background saying: let's all gather?

2 comments

r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/fenakit • Mar 08 '26

Advanced [advanced] calligraphy art

5 Upvotes

2 comments

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Virtual immersion for students of the Japanese language

r/JapaneseInTheWild

This sub is for people to share Japanese language that they have encountered in their everyday life (signs, advertisements, etc.) to benefit students of the language.

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Welcome to Japanese in the Wild. Studying off a textbook can get boring. I find that seeing real-life instances of a language can help motivate learners and will provide a lot of practical, everyday vocabulary.

Japanese in the Wildへようこそ。教科書ばかりで日本語を勉強することが退屈。リアルの日本語を見て日本語を覚えることによってモチベーションを高め、日常的に使える日本語も身につけられます。

Posting Guidelines 投稿ガイドライン

Submissions should all be photos of things such as signs, advertisements, etc. which contain Japanese writing. They should also ideally be either funny, interesting, or useful in some way.

投稿は日本語が含まれているサイン・広告等日常的にみられるもの。受ける日本語、面白い日本語、役に立つ日本語であればなおさらよし。

Formatting your Submission 投稿のフォーマット化

Please mark your submission based on level of difficulty. This will help people search and filter based on their skill level. If it's a mix, include both in the title.

難易度に応じて投稿に下記のどれかを付けてください。難易度フィルターにより、生徒が自分に合った難易度の投稿を探せます。両方混ざっている場合、括弧内に記入するのをどれか選んで、もう片方をタイトルで書いてください。

[Beginner]: Anything that is hiragana/katakana only, or just has a few basic kanji (JLPT N5 or lower)
[Intermediate]: Probably the largest category - has some more kanji mixed in but nothing too difficult (JLPT N4 - N3)
[Advanced]: Something for people with a fairly high level of fluency (JLPT N2 - N1)
[Beginner]: 初心者向け。ひらがな、カタカナのみ、もしくはシンプルな漢字（小学校一～二年生）が入っているもの
[Intermediate]: 中級。（一番大きいカテゴリー）中学生が分かる漢字が入っているもの
[Advanced]: 上級。それ以上難しいもの

IMPORTANT: When submitting, feel free to make titles humorous or get creative, but do not give away the meaning of the Japanese. The point is for learners to try and read themselves, going to comments as necessary to find the answer. The comment section is for translation attempts and general discussion (how certain words are used, etc.).

重要：投稿の際に、タイトルは形式を問いません（面白くてもいいし、ドライでもいい）が、日本語の意味をばれさせないでください。生徒が自分で読んでみて、自分で辞書を引いたりして意味を調べることが目的です。必要に応じてコメントのところに行って翻訳を書いてみたり、他のユーザーに質問したりします。

Here are some examples of submissions and titles:
こちらは投稿例になります：

Comments コメント

There are no hard and fast rules for commenting (anyone who goes there can expect some spoilers) but it's a nice gesture to add a spoiler tag so that people can see hints but not the answer itself.

コメントに硬いルールを設けていません。コメントのところに行けば、スポイラーがあるかもしれないので覚悟したうえでコメントに行ってください。ただし、ヒントだけ出したい場合はスポイラータグを付けてあげることをお勧めします。

The way to do that is （記入方法） [Spoiler](/s "ぺけぺけ")
This will show up as （このように表示されます） Spoiler

Furigana 振り仮名

To create furigana in your posts, use the following syntax: 振り仮名を付けたい場合、下記のように記入してください：

[漢字](#fg "かんじ")

This will display 漢字.

The quotation marks are not optional. Read more here.

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Feel free to make meta comments with suggestions on how to improve the sub as well. 全体改善の意見などあれば、Metaコメントを投稿してください。

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