Japanese-speaking
- adjective
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de habla japonesa
- The tour guide was Japanese-speaking, which made it easier for tourists to understand the cultural significance of the sites.
- Japanese-speaking people
Examples
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Chef Saito speaks a small amount of English and will do his best to communicate with each customer, but diners who don't speak Japanese are advised to reserve via a hotel concierge or another Japanese-speaking person.
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First of all, the draft proposed that the WRA make additional efforts to inform Japanese-speaking camp residents.
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One of its aims was to encourage the Japanese-speaking people to get involved in "constructive" activities such as agricultural programs.
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The order specifies "Japanese-speaking personnel."
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For one thing, they assumed that the Japanese-speaking people could do well without any native-language publications.
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To keep Japanese-speaking people informed of significant matters about themselves and to maintain their morale by preventing rumors in camps.
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As one principal JACL member explained, "rumors persist among Japanese-speaking groups regarding world news and the post-war situation."
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A Nisei researcher, Charles Kikuchi (1942), reported that the chief opposition to the paper has come from the Japanese-speaking group who feel they are being neglected.
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By the same token, experiences of Japanese-speaking camp inmates can further enrich the already voluminous scholarship of mass incarceration, which has been exceedingly English-centered, too.
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Okazaki, Kato, and Onizuka (1991) studied "palatalized articulation" in Japanese-speaking children.
Academic text (2012)
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Etymology
The word Japanese-speaking comes from two parts: Japanese and speaking. Japanese is Japan plus the ending -ese, the same ending as in Chinese, and it names the language, while speaking means 'able to talk'. So Japanese-speaking means someone who can talk in Japanese.