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All of our Japanese Kanji videos can be seen on our YouTube channel Kanji Memories and its Learning Japanese Kanji playlist. Alternatively, there is a link below to the YouTube video for this particular Japanese Kanji. There is also an embedded copy of the video towards the bottom of the page, but that may not be available on your device for technical reasons. See also the text translations and the Kanji memories memory card.

This is the YouTube link to the Japanese Kanji for Year It is useful to see our video no. 55 for 'noon' first.


This is the Kanji Memories 'Memory Card'.


Year Memory Card


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These are the translations (English, with Kanji, just Hiragana and Katakana, Romanji) used in the video.

"This hotel welcomes old people."

このホテルは お年寄り を歓迎しています

このほてるはおとしよりをかんげいしています

Kono hoteru wa otoshiyori o kangei shite imasu.

"The people who lived in that age were fortunate."

あの 年代 に住んでいた人々は幸せだったな

あのねんだいにすんでいたひとびとはしあわせだったな

Ano nendai ni sunde ita hitobito wa shiawase datta na.