5 Japanese Words from this Week's News (13 April - 17 April 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

This week's terminology in tech, telecoms, and finance was selected from public releases from the Bank of Japan, Fujitsu, Hitachi, and NEC issued between 13 and 17 April 2015.

English	Japanese
	Kanji	Kana
Recovery	回復	かいふく
Speech Recognition	音声認識	おんせい にんしき
Video coding	映像符号化	えいぞうふごうか
Fixed Communications	固定通信	こてい つうしん
Mission Critical	基幹系	きかんけいき

First Kanji

The first kanji in the above main vocabulary is JLPT N3 character 回, which means -times, round, game, revolve, and is a counter for occurrences.

On: カイ、 エ	Kun: まわ.る、 -まわ.る、 -まわ.り、 まわ.す、 -まわ.す、 まわ.し-、 -まわ.し、 もとお.る、 か.える
Chinese Pronunciation: huí

Notes

• Once we know 固定通信, we probably want to know that Mobile Communications is 移動通信 (いどう つうしん / idō tsūshin).
• If you want to describe a recovery (回復) like a Central Banker, two descriptors used by the Bank of Japan are  やかな回復緩 for gradual recovery and 着実に回復 for a steady recovery.

English	Japanese
	Kanji	Kana
Gradual (or lenient)	緩やか	ゆるやか
Steady	着実	ちゃくじつ

• Example Use by the BoJ:
• 四国: 緩やかな回復を続けている
• Shikoku: Continue (to provide guidance for a) gradual recovery
• 東海: 着実に回復を続けている
• Tokai: Continue (to provide guidance for a) steady recovery

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Sources

Bank of Japan	http://bit.ly/5JWordsWk26n1
Fujitsu	http://bit.ly/5JWordsWk26n2
NEC	http://bit.ly/5JWordsWk26n3
	http://bit.ly/5JWordsWk26n4
Hitatchi	http://bit.ly/5JWordsWk26n5
Investopedia.com, Jisho.org, visualmandarin.com

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