TsukuBlog | Around Mitsukaido Station, Its Not Arigato- Its OBRIGADO !
TsukuBlog Around Mitsukaido Station, Its Not Arigato- Its OBRIGADO ! 16 June, 2014 Takara`s Brazilian Mall is located just next to Mitsukuaido Station (on the Joso Line- if using TX, change in Moriya) The Japanese word ARIGATO and the Portuguese word OBRIGADO, which both mean THANK YOU in their respective languages, can often sound uncannily alike. And since Portugal WAS the first European country to have made contact with Japan ( in 1543), and DID in fact leave several linguistic traces of its presence (not to mention the introduction of Christianity and firearms, among o...