Yesterday, 2013 April 19, was the 116th birthday of the world’s oldest living person … Jiroemon Kimura of Japan.
Mr. Kimura was born on 1897 April 19th.
(edited on 2013 June 12th:
Mr. Kimura died this morning.
RIP, Mr. Jiroemon Kimura, 1897 April 19th – 2013 June 12th, aged 116 years and 54 days.)
I edited this post because, unfortunately, Mr. Jiroemon Kimura died this morning.
He was the oldest living person until today.
And he holds the record as the oldest man who’s ever lived (not oldest person…a French woman lived to be 122½ years old ).
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I have a question about Japanese. How would you say “Why me?” Would it be “doushite watashi?”, “watashi ni doushite” or something different?
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“Nande watashi ? ” would be better.
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Thank you very much!
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Sure.
Why did you need to know how to say that?
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I’m writing another song in Japanese (:
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Do you write songs in Japanese?
Do you record them?
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I do write songs in Japanese because I adore Japanese songs. I wish to record them someday (:
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Which Japanese songs do you like, in particular?
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I won’t name song titles (I have too many to name, lol. I have a whole playlist on my iPod of Japanese songs) but songs by the bands D, Oz, Exist Trace, Alsdead (ect) really inspire me. Basically, visual kei bands.
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Japanese “visual-kei” has similarities to “shock rock”(KISS, Lordi, Alice Cooper, etc ) … which I like.
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You have good taste in music then (: lol. Is visual kei popular in Japan?
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I wouldn’t say that visual-kei music is “popular”… but it has its fans.
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Wow! And he looks cheerful too. That’s great!
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Yes … he looks much younger than he is.
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That’s crazy. Just imagining all that he’s seen over the years…amazing!
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Yes … he’s seen more than anyone else alive today!
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