The word 'anime' (アニメ) is a Japanese shortening of the English word 'animation', a gairaigo, or foreign loanword.
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The word 'anime' (アニメ) is a Japanese shortening of the English word 'animation', a gairaigo, or foreign loanword.


Imamura Shoten
Imamura Store
There is an elderly woman who has run a store in a Japanese town for sixty years. She marries into the Imamura Store and cares for the shop by herself, as she lived each day as the present. 1st Year Work 2011 by Aya Tsugehata, Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation. (Source: Geidai Animation)
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