Osaka

Osaka is a Japanese big city, the third biggest after Tokyo and Yokohama. (For a long time Osaka used to be the second biggest.) Osaka locates mouth of the rivers that go through Kyoto, the old capital of Japan locating inland, thus Osaka became important trade, merchant, industrial city.
Osaka, Kyoto and Kobe are close each other and they consist hubs in Kansai region. They have distinctive dialect slightly differ from standard Japanese but that is cherished in Japan.
Osaka is also famous with various inexpensive foods and comedies.

I go to Osaka today and watch a comedy show and afterward eat there.

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omedetou

A Japanese word meaning Congratulations.

Omedetou for your success.
Just married? Omedetou!

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ai

Both in Japanese and Chinese, ai means Love.
Pronouce as "I".

In English, people may be calling oneself "Love" by saying I (ai). Let's return to Christian spirit.

I(ai) love you, may mean Love loves you.

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sukiyaki

1. A Japanese food. Cooked in a pot with sliced meats and various vegetables. Mostly several people eat together like fondue while cooking or heating.
2. An old Japense popular song in 1960s. The music became world wide popular and became one of the standards. The name "sukiyaki" is nothing to do with food but at the time used as a symbol of Japanese.

We love sukiyaki in winter time.
It's cold today, which food shall we cook, sukiyaki or fondue?

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ohayou

Japanese word meaning Good morning.
Derivatives, Ohayou, ohayo, ohayou gozaimasu (polite).

Ohayou, it's a wonderful morning.
Ohayou sounds like OH.

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aho

A japanese word meaning idiot, fool, stupid and (Japanese word) "baka". "Ahou" somewhat stronger in sense.
This is a kansai (Kyoto, Osaka region) dialect.

Aho, don't say such a stupid thing.
Our current president is an Ahou or Baka, damaging everything.

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kamikaze

Japanese word "Divine wind".
In Japanese history, Japan had only a few crises to be invaded by foreign forces, twice by Mongolians and once by the USA.
When the Mongolian empire was at peak, Fubirai Kahn, a grandchild of Genghis Kahn, attempted to conquer Japan in 1274 and 1281 with massive forces. In both occasions, divine force, perhaps typhoon, destroyed Mongolian forces at sea. Since then, there was a belief that Japan was protected by divine force.
During the World War II, when Japan was loosing, Japanese air force adapted desparite suicidal attacks and named kamikaze after the divine wind.

Kamikaze was a crazy strategy.
At the time, Kamikaze was like guided missiles, and feared by American soldiers.

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