Perception is based, to a very large extent, on conceptual models - which are always inadequate, often incomplete and sometimes profoundly wrong.

He is so mild in disposition that I have never heard him speak in a loud voice.

Cities are designated on this map as red dots.

In times like that when there were not even basic labor rights in Japan, the common people who struggled against hard suppression and living directed their anger to high-income people, especially rice marketers and merchants gradually.

After some manipulation he managed to get the bunch between the heels of his mittened hands.

The problem of faith brings us to the Thirties and the Western love-affair with communism.

It is absurd to believe that young children can run faster than policemen.

Recently my haemorrhoids, which I've had from before, are painful.

For the last 30 years, ad agencies would kill for a major tobacco account.

In 2008, triggered by the privatization of the postal system, new items such as carbon-offset New Year's postcards and New Year's postcards with cartoon characters were released.