{"id":6307,"date":"2010-06-20T13:31:04","date_gmt":"2010-06-20T04:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=6307"},"modified":"2010-06-20T13:31:04","modified_gmt":"2010-06-20T04:31:04","slug":"sunday-tangent-excellent-mark-schreiber-article-on-crime-terms-in-j-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=6307","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Tangent: excellent Mark Schreiber article on crime terms in J media"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hi Blog. \u00a0As a Sunday Tangent, here’s a lovely little lesson in Japanese from a person who’s collated all this information the hardscrabble way — through years of experience in Japan. \u00a0Mark Schreiber has been here about as long as I’ve been alive (he came to Japan in 1965 shortly after I was born; no connection, of course), and I love it when we have shortcuts like this to useful linguistic knowledge. \u00a0Enjoy. \u00a0Arudou Debito in Sapporo<\/p>\n

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The Japan Times, Wednesday, March 24, 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n

BILINGUAL
\nGet the suk\u016bpu on crime terms in Japanese (excerpt)<\/strong>
\n http:\/\/search.japantimes.co.jp\/cgi-bin\/ek20100324a1.html<\/a><\/p>\n

By MARK SCHREIBER<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sometimes I’m asked how I came to be interested in crime in Japan. I guess it began in my early days here as a student and lowly paid salaryman in the late 1960s.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Before I could afford a newspaper subscription, I never lacked for sensational reading matter. All I had to do on my morning train commute was gaze upward at a \u540a\u308a\u5e83\u544a (tsurik\u014dkoku, hanging advertisement) for a magazine. That finished, I would peer over the shoulders of fellow commuters poring over sports tabloids with huge red or blue headlines, often accompanied by supplementary words like \u30b9\u30af\u30fc\u30d7! (suk\u016bpu, scoop), \u30ba\u30d0\u30ea (zubari, no punches pulled), \u66b4\u9732\u3059\u308b\uff01 (bakuro suru, to disclose or lay bare) and \u65b0\u4e8b\u5b9f (shinjijitsu, new revelations).<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

My surreptitious \u76d7\u307f\u8aad\u307f (nusumi-yomi, theft-reading) was an economical way to keep abreast of current events \u2014 although sometimes I put Japanese coworkers on the spot when asking them to explain a particularly lurid term I’d picked up from the tabloids.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Rest at\u00a0http:\/\/search.japantimes.co.jp\/cgi-bin\/ek20100324a1.html<\/a><\/p>\n

ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As a Sunday Tangent, here’s a lovely little lesson in Japanese from a person who’s collated all this information the hardscrabble way — through years of experience in Japan. Mark Schreiber has been here about as long as I’ve been alive (he came to Japan in 1965 shortly after I was born; no connection, of course), and I love it when we have shortcuts like this to useful linguistic knowledge.<\/p>\n

Excerpt: “If nabbed by police in \u73fe\u884c\u72af (genk\u014dhan, the act of committing a crime), a culprit might warn his cohorts by saying, \u304a\u3044\u3001\u9003\u3052\u308d\uff01\u30b5\u30c4\u3060\uff01 (Oi, nigero! Satsu da!, Beat it! It’s the cops!).<\/p>\n

To obtain witness testimony at \u72af\u884c\u73fe\u5834 (hank\u014d genba, the scene of the crime), police will engage in \u805e\u304d\u8fbc\u307f (kikikomi, door-to-door canvassing). In serious cases, a \u9003\u4ea1\u8005\uff08t\u014db\u014dsha, fugitive) might be the subject of a \u5168\u56fd\u6307\u540d\u624b\u914d (zenkoku shimei tehai, nationwide dragnet).<\/p>\n

Of course, \u524d\u79d1\u8005 (zenkamono, people with a previous criminal record) facing a prison sentence are likely to \u7121\u7f6a\u3092\u4e3b\u5f35\u3059\u308b (muzai wo shuch\u014d suru, proclaim innocence), using such expressions as \u50d5\u306f\u7d76\u5bfe\u306b\u3084\u3063\u3066\u306a\u3044 (Boku wa zettai ni yatte nai, I absolutely didn’t do it), \u50d5\u306f\u767d\u3060 (Boku wa shiro da, I’m “white,” i.e., “clean” or innocent), or even \u6fe1\u308c\u8863\u3092\u7740\u305b\u3089\u308c\u305f (Nureginu wo kiserareta, I was made to wear wet silk, i.e., framed).<\/p>\n

To avoid the possibility of \u51a4\u7f6a\u88c1\u5224 (enzai saiban, a miscarriage of justice), police must follow procedure while bearing in mind that \u7591\u308f\u3057\u304d\u306f\u7f70\u305b\u305a (utagawashiki wa bassezu, suspicion does not equal guilt, i.e., the suspect is innocent until proved guilty).”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,13,31,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-media","category-tangents","category-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}