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Portugal Pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka
The 37th World Expo is currently being held in Osaka (大阪), Japan, from April to October this year. This is only the fourth World Expo to...
Spencer Low
Aug 10, 20253 min read


How Portuguese "soap" became Japanese "cactus"
A golden barrel cactus, known in Japanese as キンシャチ (kinshachi) or 金鯱 in kanji As the first Europeans to make contact with the Japanese,...
Spencer Low
Apr 20, 20252 min read


Weirdest Japanese word borrowed from the Portuguese
As the first Europeans that the Japanese encountered, the Portuguese made a deep cultural impact on the Land of the Rising Sun. Many...
Spencer Low
Feb 23, 20252 min read
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