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28 Nov 2022: Translation. John How strange. Tadashi’s normally so punctualﾉ. Marie So he is. ... you Tadashi? Tadashi Yes, but it’s a path that you never tire of, no matter how many times you do it.

28 Nov 2022: Tadashi Ano toki wa Marī-san hontō ni taihen deshita ne. Marī Ē. ... omoshirokute, tōtō o-shimai made ikki ni yonde shimaimashita. Tadashi Sore wa yokatta.

28 Nov 2022: Tadashi Moshi moshi, Tadashi desu. Jon Ā, Tadashi-kun. O-genki desu ka. ... returns. Tadashi Kuniko, you’ve met my French friend Marie haven’t you?

28 Nov 2022: Do come in please. Tadashi Your place has a wonderful view hasn’t it? ... You’re already here. Tadashi No no, I’ve only just arrived too.

28 Nov 2022: okurete shimattan desu. Tadashi Demo sore wa shikata ga nain ja arimasen ka. ... an important meeting. Tadashi But there was nothing you could do about that surely?

A revised and expanded version of this paper has been published in The Spenser Review 49.2 (Spring-Summer 2019), together with a response by Professor Izumi Nemoto:

28 Nov 2022: Lesson 29 John, Tadashi and Marie go on talking in Marie’s flat. ... shigoto o tsuzukeru tsumori ni shite imasu. Tadashi Dare no shōsetsu desu ka.

28 Nov 2022: Tadashi Ē, nishūkan gurai mae ni Suginami-ku e utsutta no wa shitte imasu ga, denwa. ... John That sounds’s fine. I’ll see you then then. Good-bye. Tadashi Good-bye.

28 Nov 2022: Tadashi Sore de wa, muzukashii ten to iu no wa nan desu ka. ... John Tadashi, there’s something I just don’t understand about verb usage.

(1946) Alternative title: Stairway to Heaven