An Australian man on trial for burglary, has used what the Sankei calls a soramimi (空耳) defence. He says the English he used to warn a householder of a fire risk was misheard as threats in Japanese. https://t.co/nYuDsThWB1
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Some Tokyo folks, it seems, are mixing up the train station names Hatagaya (幡ヶ谷駅) in Tokyo and Hatogaya (鳩ヶ谷駅駅) - an hour away from central Tokyo in Saitama Prefecture. It happens enough that Saitama Rail put up posters in Hatogaya warning ppl that they’re lost.