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  2. Ryū Murakami - Wikipedia

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    Coin Locker Babies. 69. Piercing. In the Miso Soup. Ryū Murakami (村上 龍, Murakami Ryū, born February 19, 1952 in Sasebo, Nagasaki) is a Japanese novelist, short story writer, essayist and filmmaker. His novels explore human nature through themes of disillusion, drug use, surrealism, murder and war, set against the dark backdrop of Japan.

  3. Perception of English /r/ and /l/ by Japanese speakers

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    The Japanese liquid is most often realized as an alveolar tap [ɾ], though there is some variation depending on phonetic context. /r/ of American English (the dialect Japanese speakers are typically exposed to) is most commonly a postalveolar central approximant with simultaneous secondary pharyngeal constriction [ɹ̠ˤ] or less commonly a retroflex approximant [ɻ].

  4. Coin Locker Babies - Wikipedia

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    Coin Locker Babies (コインロッカー・ベイビーズ, Koinrokkā Beibīzu), 1980, is a novel by Ryū Murakami about coin-operated-locker babies, translated into English by Stephen Snyder. The translation was published in 1995 by Kodansha (講談社 Kōdansha) International Ltd and republished in 2013 by Pushkin Press. A Bildungsroman ...

  5. Babies R Us was gone for good. Now it’s back with a new US ...

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    Babies R Us, which went out of business in tandem with its parent company, Toys R Us, in 2018, is opening its new US flagship store on Wednesday at the American Dream Mall in New Jersey. The brand ...

  6. Babies R Us coming back inside 200 Kohl's stores - AOL

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    Kohl's will open Babies R Us shops inside their stores starting later this year, an effort by the department store retailer to broaden its reach. ... 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us. Mail. Sign ...

  7. Toys "R" Us - Wikipedia

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    Toys "R" Us [nb 1] is an American toy, clothing, and baby product retailer owned by Tru Kids (doing business as Tru Kids Brands) and various others. The company was founded in 1948; its first store was built in April 1948, with its headquarters located in Parsippany-Troy Hills, New Jersey, in the New York metropolitan area .

  8. Reiwa era - Wikipedia

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    Japanese office workers watching the announcement on a live television broadcast. Reiwa ( Japanese: 令和, pronounced [ɾeːwa] ⓘ or [ɾeꜜːwa] [1] [2]) is the current and 232nd era of the official calendar of Japan. It began on 1 May 2019, the day on which Emperor Akihito 's eldest son, Naruhito, ascended the throne as the 126th Emperor ...

  9. Old Enough! - Wikipedia

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    Old Enough! ( Japanese: はじめてのおつかい, romanized : Hajimete no Otsukai, lit. 'My First Errand') is a Japanese reality show that has been aired irregularly since 1991 on Nippon Television. The program depicts, in a documentary manner, the efforts of toddlers going on an errand on their own—buying groceries, delivering packages ...