5 Japanese Words from this Week's News (9 March - 13 March 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

Pulled from press releases between 9 March 2015 and 13 March 2015 this week's technology, telecommunication and finance terms were selected from the published usage of one of the terms by the Bank of Japan, KDDI, NTTBP, NTT Data, or Softbank Creative. We've got 2 tech & telecoms terms and 3 finance terms for addition to our vocabularies.

English	Japanese
	Kanji	Kana	Romanji
Access Point		アクセスポイント	Akusesu pointo
Field Personnel	現場 担当者	げんば たんとうしゃ	Genba tantōsha
Investment Trusts	投資 信託	とうし しんたく	Tōshi shintaku
International Financial Reporting Standard	国際 財務 報告 基準	こくさい ざいむ ほうこく きじゅん	Kokusai zaimu hōkoku kijun
Derivative Transactions	デリバティブ 取引	デリバティブ とりひき	Deribatibu torihiki

First Kanji

The first Kanji of this posting’s main vocabulary is 現, a JLPT N3 character, which per jisho.org means present, existing, and actual.
Kun: あらわ.れる、 あらわ.す、 うつつ、 うつ.つ

On:ゲン Chinese Pronunciation: xiàn

Notes

• The character 投  means to throw / send in. 2 more finance related terms using this character are
• 投合 (とうごう｜tōgō) meaning agreement / coincidence. The character 合 means combine / join together, hence an agreement can be viewed as something thrown together.
• 投機　(とうき｜tōki) means speculation / venture.

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Sources

Softbank Creative	http://bit.ly/5JWordsWk21n1
	http://bit.ly/5JWordsWk21n2
NTT Data	http://bit.ly/5JWordsWk21n3
KDDI	http://bit.ly/5JWordsWk21n4
Bank of Japan	http://bit.ly/5CWordsWk21n5

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