And here's one for those hoping to have the last word. A new edition of a best-selling Japanese dictionary has just hit stores. It contains entries that reflect the social trends of the past decade.
The seventh edition of Kojien has 250,000 words and names. About 10,000 of them are new entries.
The dictionary includes Internet terms or IT words, such as "sumaho," meaning "smartphone," and "apuri," meaning "app." It also includes the word "tweet."
Some new entries are linked to the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, as well as the nuclear accident in Fukushima. One example is "hairo." It denotes the decommissioning of a reactor.
The Kojien dictionary was first published in 1955. It was last revised in 2008.
◆denote意味する
◆decommissioning（原子炉の）廃炉措置
◆reactor原子炉
