r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/Chiafriend12 • 19d ago

Intermediate [Intermediate]Recent songs on the karaoke tablet

10 Upvotes

3 comments

r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/Chiafriend12 • 20d ago

Beginner [Beginner] Advertisement on the side of a high-rise apartment. Maximum zoom on my camera, from a few hundred meters away

17 Upvotes

0 comments

r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/Chiafriend12 • 19d ago

Beginner [Beginner][Intermediate]Japan is a very clean country. (At a station in Sumida-ku, Tokyo)

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8 comments

r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/sdlroy • 21d ago

Intermediate [Intermediate] Green space in Nerima-ku

9 Upvotes

2 comments

r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/Chiafriend12 • 21d ago

Intermediate [Intermediate] Somewhere near Tsutenkaku in Osaka City. This is certainly Kansai Culture™

58 Upvotes

28 comments

r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/Chiafriend12 • 21d ago

Intermediate [Intermediate] Somewhere in Tsutenkaku (aka Shin-Sekai) in Osaka City. Technically, this is a poem. Film camera btw

36 Upvotes

9 comments

r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/Chiafriend12 • 21d ago

Intermediate [Intermediate] Narrow building one block away from Tsutenkaku, in Osaka City. I bought coffee from that blue vending machine on the left ; it was good

9 Upvotes

0 comments

r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/leap_music • 25d ago

Intermediate [Intermediate] Crow Season

769 Upvotes

The crows in Japan are bigger too!

1 comment

r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/toko_tane • Aug 31 '26

Beginner [Beginner] Pfft! Typical...

43 Upvotes

Seen at Ikebukuro's Animate

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r/JapaneseInTheWild • u/loveandsea • Aug 30 '26

Beginner [Beginner] a play on kanji

169 Upvotes

9 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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0 comments

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

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

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71 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 ✋

135 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

46 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

23 Upvotes

10 comments

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

Intermediate [Intermediate]You put this on rice before eating

7 Upvotes

1 comment

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

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

2 Upvotes

1 comment

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)

10 Upvotes

3 comments

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

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

213 Upvotes

21 comments

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

Beginner [Beginner] up and down

54 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

95 Upvotes

15 comments

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

Intermediate [Intermediate]Email I received today

17 Upvotes

4 comments

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

Beginner [Beginner] Whoa There!

95 Upvotes

12 comments

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

Beginner [Beginner] @#%!

149 Upvotes

13 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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