5 Japanese Words from this Week's News (29 December 2014 - 2 January 2015)

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 29 December 2014 to 2 January 2015. This week's terms come from the Wall Street Journal, Nikkei Online, Hitachi, and the Bank of Japan.

English	Japanese
	Kanji	Kana	Romanji
Sustainable Development	持続可能 な 発展	じぞく かのう な はってん	Jizoku kanō na hatten
Reverse Osmosis	逆浸透	ぎゃく しんとう	Gyaku shintō
Long-Term Government Bonds	長期 国債	ちょうき こく さい	Chōki kokusai
IT (Information Technology)	IT (情報 技術)	(じょうほう ぎじゅつ)	IT (jōhō gijutsu)
Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO)	仮想 移動体通信事業者 (MVNO)	かそう いどう たい つうしん じぎょうしゃ	Kasō idōtaitsūshin jigyō-sha

First Kanji

The first Kanji in the above terminology is 持, a JLPT N4  character, which means hold and have.

On: ジ	Kun: も.つ、 -も.ち、 も.てる
Chinese Pronunciation: chí

Word in Use

From: Nikkei Keizai Shinbun, いよいよ「ＳＩＭフリー」元年　期待の裏に懸念 , 1 January 2015

• もちろん「格安スマホ」で認知度が広がった仮想移動体通信事業者（ＭＶＮＯ）の通信回線にも簡単に乗り換えられるようになる。
• Of course, due to cheap smartphone availability there is an increased awareness of Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNO) and the ease of changing it [the SIM].

Notes

• 持続可能な発展 is composed of the word for sustainable (持続可能) and development(発展) with the copula, な, used to indicate 持続可能 modifies 発展.
• The Bank of Japan's announcement regarding the sale of long-term bonds, also, indicated the grammatical construction of the term for bond's duration to be the same as in English. ２年債、５年債、１０年債、２０年債、３０年債、４０年債 for 2, 5, 10, 20, 30, and 40-year bonds.
• The term, long-term government bonds, is composed of two compounds. 長期 (long term) represents the relative holding period. 国債 (government bonds) would more literally translate into national debt, and leads one to the term for corporate bonds as 社債(しゃさい).
• Nikkei's use of the acronym, MVNO, indicates that their readers would be familiar with the abbreviation. The term, , is composed of 仮想 (virtual). 移動体通信 (mobile network), and 事業者 (operator).

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Sources

Hitachi	http://bit.ly/5JWordsWk11n1 http://bit.ly/5JWordsWk11n2
Bank of Japan	http://bit.ly/5JWordsWk11n3
WSJ	http://bit.ly/5JWordsWk11n4
Nikkei	http://bit.ly/5JWorkdsWk11n5
Investopedia.com, Jisho.org, visualmandarin.com

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