The Mainichi News in Easy English
The Mainichi News in Easy English publishes short news stories about Japan written in simplified English by The Mainichi, the English edition of a Japanese national daily founded in 1922. A story appears every two or three days on subjects such as business, work, education and daily life, and each one links to the full English article and to the original Japanese report it was written from.
100% Free (unlimited): Every story in the section is free to read without an account, and so are the links each one carries to the full English article and to the original Japanese version, together with the six pages of earlier stories kept in the archive.
How It Helps Your Business English
The page lists the section's stories, newest first, with the opening lines of the latest one and six pages of earlier stories by date. A story runs to a few hundred words in short, plain sentences, keeps the place names and figures of the original report, and carries links to the full English article and to the Japanese version it came from.
You read a short report on Japan in plain English, then open the full English article to see the same story told at normal length, which shows you how the simpler sentences were built. You can follow the section every few days for new stories, and use the Japanese link when you want to set the two versions side by side.
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