'Sutoresu': Most Known Foreign Word in Japan

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'Stress' Most Known Foreign Word in Japan
News Journal, TX - June 20, 2003
TOKYO (AP)--In a country where worn-out commuters fall asleep on their feet in trains and employees demonstrate their loyalty by passing up vacation, the foreign word most recognized by Japanese is ``stress,'' a government survey said. Of 2,200 people polled nationwide, 97.4 percent said they were familiar with the word, adopted into the Japanese language as ``sutoresu,'' the Cultural Affairs Agency said in a report released Thursday.

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i just wrote an article on it...]http://japan.box.sk/uploads/00000511.jpg[/img]
http://japan.box.sk/newsread.php?newsid=2302

Damn, I KNOW this jerk , Takahashi.
I hung him by his necktie from the overhead lugage rack in late Sept. 1989 while the train was still in Tokyo station. Needless to say I did NOT have to "apologize" 'cause no cop on earth is gonna believe that I could harm a fly.

Takahashi continued with his previous attitude towards foreigners. "I would always give foreigners a hard time on the train ride home from work. Sometimes this would lead to confrontations that would have to involve the police. Of course I could always talk my way out of it even though I was in the wrong cause 9 out of 10 times the foreigner couldn't speak Japanese. I could say whatever I wanted to the police and make up a story which usually resulted in me looking like the good guy and the foreigner having to apologize."

[blackcat]

perhaps the most experienced also?

but what about BEERU..itsnt that a "loan word" too?

and the answer to stress? :P

[GomiGirl]

Damn, I KNOW this jerk , Takahashi.
I hung him by his necktie from the overhead lugage rack in late Sept. 1989 while the train was still in Tokyo station. Needless to say I did NOT have to "apologize" 'cause no cop on earth is gonna believe that I could harm a fly.

You do not know this guy.., it is a fictional story.. Your tales are getting taller and taller taro..

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....the foreign word most recognized by Japanese is "stress,'' a government survey said. Of 2,200 people polled nationwide, 97.4 percent said they were familiar with the word, adopted into the Japanese language as ``sutoresu,'' the Cultural Affairs Agency said in a report released Thursday.

Really.. I thought Beckham would win that 'prized position'..
AntiPixel.com has a pretty funny bit of Beckham artwork here.

[Taro Toporific]

Damn, I KNOW this jerk , Takahashi.
I hung him by his necktie from the overhead lugage rack in late Sept. 1989...

You do not know this guy.., it is a fictional story.. Your tales are getting taller and taller taro..

Damn, you mean there's more than one "Takahashi" in Japan. Who'd ever thunk it? Now I'm real worried.