Mangajin No. 29
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| Mangajin No.29 | |
| Published September 1993 | |
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| Cover by Kazuko | |
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Contents |
Features
9 Political Cartoon
Newly elected Prime Minister Hosokawa seems to be having problems pruning the mighty oak left behind by the LDP.
11 Software Special
No more excuses! It's time to teach your computer Japanese. Douglas Horn examines the current Mac vs. PC options and provides a summary of Japanese application software available in the US.
42 Interview with Takeuchi Akira, creator of Garcia-kun
Manga artist Takeuchi Akira has created something of a stir with his new series about a foreign laborer (外人労働者, gaijin rodosha) in Japan.
Departments
4 Letters & Bloopers
The readers write.
7 Brand News
Quick pickling.
16 A Taste of Culture: Elizabeth Andoh
Japanese kitchen utensils are as distinctive as Japanese cooking.
20 Book Review
Sakaiya Taichi's What Is Japan? (English translation of a Japanese best seller) is a prime example of the popular Nihon-ron ("theories about Japan") genre.
32 Basic Japanese: Stylized Kanji
Most kanji characters are actually highly stylized pictures. In graphic arts, however, the process can go backward, and kanji are altered to take on the shape of the objects they represent. Mangajin presents a selection of these "visual puns."
88 Vocabulary Summary
90 Mangajin · Mono
More stuff for study and fun.
94 Classifieds
Manga
28 Calvin and Hobbes, by Bill Watterson
30 The Far Side, by Gary Larson
38 Tanaka-kun · 田中くん, by Tanaka Hiroshi
40 OL Shinkaron · OL進化論, by Akizuki Risu
42 Garcia-kun · ガルシアくん, by Takeuchi Akira
52 Sanshiro no Koi · 三四郎の恋, by Maekawa Tsukasa
63 Kacho Shima Kosaku · 課長島耕作(Part II), by Hirokane Kenshi
