Aficionados poured in from as far afield as Peru and Tokyo for a weekend of live music and Beatlemania, which kicked off with 1631 people singing "Love Me Do" outside the city's central Liver Building.

In Japan, however, people work about 2,159 hours a year.

然而，日本人每年大约要工作2159小时。

The custom is partly a result of how commitment to a job is judged in Japan, says Dr Brigitte Steger.

布里奇特-斯蒂格博士说，这种习惯部分出自于日本人如何判断工作是否投入。

According to the Talent Education Research Institute, an educational organization founded by Mr. Suzuki, about 400,000 children in 46 countries are now learning to play musical instruments the Suzuki way.

铃木镇一创办了才能教育研究会（Talent Education Research Institute）。该教育机构的资料显示，目前在46个国家有40万儿童正在铃木教学法的帮助下学习演奏乐器，其中仅有2万儿童是日本人。

Many corporate methods have been adopted by American managers in imitation of Japanese practice.

美国的管理人员效仿日本人的做法，采用了很多经营公司的方法。

Asking unmarried people about a spouse or childless people about children may embarrass a Japanese person.

要是向没有成婚或没有生养的人问侯匹俦和孩子会让日本人感想难堪。

Loneliness has long been an issue in Japan, often discussed alongside "hikikomori," or people who live in extreme social isolation.

长久以来，孤独一直是困扰日本人的问题，经常和生活在极端社会隔离环境中的“蛰居族”一同被讨论。

The Japanese are expert at lowering manufacturing costs

日本人在降低制造成本方面很在行。

When the Japanese meet new people, they like giving business cards-but you should read the card carefully, not just put it in your pocket.

日本人遇到新朋友时喜欢发名片——但你应该认真阅读名片，而不是直接揣进兜里。

Next month, 40 years to the day after that short-lived boast, a very different Japanese Prime Minister will arrive in manila.

下个月刚好是日本人夸下那句昙花一现的海口后40年，一个迥然不同的首相将要访问马尼拉。

The Scottish Tourist Board said 33,000 Japanese visited Scotland last year.

苏格兰旅游局宣称去年有33,000名日本人到苏格兰旅游。

One scientist says the Japanese and Israelis have different opinions of failure.

一位科学家说,日本人和以色列人对失败有不同的看法。

It is common knowledge that Zhang Zoulin was murdered by the Japanese.

尽人皆知，张作霖是被日本人谋杀的。

The Japanese, Americans, and even the French and Germans, judge economic policies by results.

日本人、美国人，甚至法国人和德国人，都依据结果来评判经济政策的好坏。

From a very young age, the Japanese are already taught how to survivethem.

日本人在很小的时候就已经学会了如何生存。

Objective: In order to explain the distribution of polymorphism gene.

目的：为了研究日本人群β-链基因AvaⅡ酶切位点的遗传多态性以及该位点等位基因频率的分布。

Then, many Japanese went there. It is said that this is because of the honesty1 of a small boy.

后来，许多日本人到这里观光旅游，据说，这是源于一位少年的诚信。

Or to help you understand even better; if everybody lived like the average Japanese person, we would need about 2.4 Earths to sustain our way of life.

或者，为了便于理解，可以这么说，如果每个人都像普通日本人一样生活，我们将需要约2.4个地球来维持我们的生活方式。

Parasite singles are often blamed for a large number of problems in Japan, ranging from a decline. Some social scientists have attributed long hours of a traditional Japanese workplace.

有些社会学家认为单身寄生族增多是因为日本人更喜欢社区式生活，同时，人们不愿意保持一段长久的恋爱关系，而是选择将更多精力放在工作和日本广为诟病的加班方面，这也是单身寄生族增加的原因之一。

The Japanese can't directly confront disagreement.

日本人对不同意见是不会直接抗争的。

In1998 the television spot won the second annual primetime Emmy Award for best commercial from the Academy of Television Arts& Sciences ( ATAS). The ad also won a Belding, a Silver Lion at Cannes.

1998年，这支电视广告赢得了电视电影学会（ATAS）授予的第二届年度黄金时段艾美奖之最佳广告奖，以及贝尔丁奖及戛纳银狮奖。