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April 13
| Article | Characters |
|---|---|
| 米国自ら「海峡封鎖」、もろはの剣のリスク イランに譲歩させる狙い | 1900 |
| （天声人語）ピーナツコーラの妙味 | 600 |
Today, I finally made use of my Asahi Shinbun subscription for the first time this month 
The first article was about the current ceasefire between the US and Iran and US’s plan to block the strait of Hormuz
I also read online that the 天声人語 daily opinion pieces in the newspaper are supposedly a really good JLPT-esque reading practice, so I think I wanna keep reading them regularly for now. They are pretty short from what I could tell! The piece from yesterday about peanuts cola first introduced the readers to a Southern US tradition that has become somewhat of a trend in Japan after X / Twitter has introduced automatic machine translations of tweets. The author ponders about the implications that this change on the website could have; while Twitter executives tout it as the start of a great cultural exchange, the author also wonders if the negative effects of social media may be exacerbated by this new feature, like people making judgements on (potentially mis)translated headlines they see on the website
Besides my newspaper reading, I have also started a new novel today: 推し、燃ゆ of which I have read 30% today. It is really captivating and I want to keep reading before I talk too much about it, but I can already say that as someone who is not into Oshi culture at all, it has already opened up some new perspective on some things I have seen and heard of when I lived in Japan 
But I will write more about this in the future (though spoilers of the book will, of course, not be discussed outside of spoiler tags, don’t worry)