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TsukuBlog Around Mitsukaido Station, Its Not Arigato- Its OBRIGADO ! 16 June, 2014 Takara`s Brazilian Mall is located just next to Mitsukuaido Station (on the Joso Line- if using TX, change in Moriya)     The Japanese word ARIGATO and the Portuguese word OBRIGADO, which both mean THANK YOU in their respective languages, can often sound uncannily alike. And since Portugal WAS the first European country to have made contact with Japan ( in 1543), and DID in fact leave several linguistic traces of its presence (not to mention the introduction of Christianity and firearms, among other things!) which continue to live on in Modern Japanese, including the words for bread- PAN, button- BOTAN, cape- KAPPA, alcohol- ARUKORU and even the word TEMPURA, it is not surprising that there are MANY who assume that ARIGATO is also a word of Portuguese origin.

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