You know what copyright mark © means, don’t you?
It should be common for all cultures that young generation try to differentiate themselves by changing their languages from adult. In this case with Japanese teenager girls, they have been using © for totally different purpose since mid 1990′s.
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Asiajin » Copyright Mark May Mean "Miss" For Japanese Teens - 1 views
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This does not mean that they claim copyright on their name. On this magazine, this © means “-chan”, casual form of “-san”, which is a title of respect. So some young girls who are reading the magazine use © character after their friends’ name on (usually mobile) web, too. It is totally unbelievable even for Japanese adults.
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Origins of the Japanese | Past Horizons - 2 views
In Defense of Japanese Studies « Contemporary Japanese Literature - 2 views
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What Japanese Studies does, then, is not only to teach students about an important and highly relevant part of the world but also to encourage their development as "international citizens" or "global citizens" or whatever the buzzword is these days. Japanese Studies classes effectively transform Japan from a fantasy land that only exists within the American cultural sphere to a real place populated by real people who exist independently of the American cultural imagination; and, if Japan really exists, then it only stands to reason that other countries, such as Egypt and Afghanistan, really exist as well. The shift in cultural perspective is enormous. Probably most of the people reading this take such a cultural perspective for granted, but we've all been through college and probably don't remember what it's like to be a junior in high school and surrounded by nothing but Western language, history, and literature. For me personally, Japan might as well have been Disneyland while I was in high school, and I believe there are still a great many Americans well past their teens who don't think too differently.
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