Tategaki vs Yokogaki

Japanese can be written horizontally as well as vertically. Traditionally, vertical writing (縦書き tategaki) was the standard format and it still is more common overall than horizontal writing (横書きyokogaki). However, with the recent increase in the use of computers and the Internet, yokogaki is fast becoming widespread nowadays, so younger generations in particular may feel like yokogaki is easier to read. Historically, Japanese used to be written only vertically, starting from to ..

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Teriyaki chicken recipe

Teriyaki chicken(照り焼きチキン) Teriyaki chicken is one of the many popular dishes from Japan. Teriyaki sauce is not only for chicken, and is actually very commonly used to cook fish like buri (鰤: amberjack). Teriyaki dishes have a gorgeous shininess or luster (照り teri) due to the sugary ingredients in the sauce and are simply cooked by frying (焼き yaki), as its name suggests. You can cook authentic Teriyaki chicken dishes with ingredients commonly available from big supe ..

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