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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 East


This is the Kanji Memories 'Memory Card'.


East Memory Card


... and here is our new video for the JLPT N5 Kanji 東 'east' for teachers of Japanese.#japanese #kanji #jlpt #japan pic.twitter.com/qOn7YmrbKP

— Kanji Memories (@kanjimemories) July 14, 2023

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

"Tokyo has a larger population than London."

東京 の人口はロンドンよりも多い

とうきょうのじんこうはろんどんよりもおおい

Toukyou no jinkou wa Rondon yori mo ooi.

"The east of Japan is beautiful in Spring."

春になると日本の 東部 は美しいです

はるになるとにほんのとうぶはうつくしいです

Haru ni naru to Nihon no toubu wa utsukushii desu.