English vocabulary enriches Japanese language

English is now solidly entrenched in Japan, not only on TV but in stores, restaurants, magazines and so on, according to Marshall R. Childs, a Temple University teacher of English as a second language who has lived in Japan for two decades. English is not entrenched as a separate second language to be used according to its own conventions, he says. Instead, it ihas become a significant vocabulary that adds to the richness of Japanese. Read his commentary at Daily Yomiuri online.