5 Japanese Words from this Week's News (15 December 2014 - 19 December 2014)

5 Japanese Words from this Week's News

今週のニュースから五つ日本語の言葉

5 Japanese words to build one's vocabulary culled from the week's news for 15 December 2014 to 19 December 2014.This week's sources are words from the Bank of Japan, Softbank, KDDI, and Fujitsu.

English	Japanese
	Kanji	Kana	Romanji
Information Management	情報 管理	じょうほう かなり	Jōhō kanri
Sales Performance Management	販売 実績 管理	はんばい じっせき かんり	Hanbai jisseki kanri
Claim (bill) Bill	請求 法案	せいきゅう ほうあん	Seikyū Hōan
License Agreement	ライセンス 契約	ライセンス けいやく	Raisensu keiyaku
Monetary Policy Meeting	金融 政策決定 会合	きんゆう せいさく けってい かいごう	Kinyū seisaku kettei kaigō

First Kanji

The first Kanji in the above terminology is 情.  情 is JLPT N3 character which means feelings, emotion, passion, sympathy, circumstances, and facts.

On: ジョウ、 セイ	Kun: なさ.け
Chinese Pronunciation: qíng

Notes

1. Softbank has a License Agreement (ライセンス契約) with Disney. The word 契約 (けいやく), also means contract. In a case like this an agreement and a contract are likely the same thing.  In cases where a legal document is not involved, there may be a difference in the word to use.
2. KDDI wrote about 請求(せいきゅう)which can translate to bill or claim, while the word 法案(ほうあん) is a bill.  In American English, a bill is demand for payment from the recipient of the bill; a claim is request for payment from either a first or third party. (e.g. I filed a claim with my insurance company.)

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Sources

Fujitsu	http://bit.ly/5JWordsWk9n1
	http://bit.ly/5JWordsWk9n2
KDDI	http://bit.ly/5JWordsWk9n3
Softbank	http://bit.ly/5JWordsWK9n4
Bank of Japan	http://bit.ly/5JWordsWk9n5
Jisho.org, visualmandarin.com, investopedia.com

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