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まいあさ7じはんにおきます。あさごはんはいつもくだものとたまごです。はちじはんにだいがくへいきます。くじからごじいまでべんきょします。ろくじにうちへかえります。

I am studying Japanese for a number of reasons. I first became interested in Japanese history last year in a class called "The Economic History of Japan" which is offered by the Economics Department. In this class I became interested in studying the major political and economic transformations of the Meiji Restoration. Over this past summer I worked at the University of Tokyo with an economics professor from Columbia University to measure changes in income after the Treaty of Kanagawa. This year I would like to study the economic policies of the Meiji government specifically focusing on state sponsored factory building in the 1870s. In order to complete this research it would be helpful to be able to read primary source documents from the 1800s. Additionally, I am currently taking a course at Columbia in the history department that focuses on the Tokugawa bakufu. I would really like to delve into the historical literature of this period and also read Japanese historiography....

はじめまして。わたしはマーコーンザッカリー です。にじゅういっさいです。コロンビアだいがくのがくせいです。よねんせいです。ニューヨークからきました。どうぞよろしく。