日本人の中には自分達の国が外国人の眼にどう映るのか気にする者がいる。

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English Translation

Some Japanese are concerned about how their country looks in the eyes of foreigners.

Furigana

日本人(にっぽんじん)の中(なか)には自分達(じぶんたち)の国(くに)が外国人(がいこくじん)の眼(め)にどう映(うつ)るのか気(き)にする者(もの)がいる。

Romanji

Nipponjin no nakani wa jibuntachi no kuni ga gaikokujin no me ni dō utsuru no ka ki ni suru mono ga iru.

Words

日本人 (にほんじん、にっぽんじん)

Japanese person; Japanese people

の (の)

indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; (at sentence-end, falling tone) indicates a confident conclusion; (at sentence-end) indicates emotional emphasis; (at sentence-end, rising tone) indicates question

は (は)

topic marker particle; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis

国 (くに)

country; state; region; national government; central government; home (i.e. hometown, home country); province (of Japan); land; earth

が (が)

indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; still; and

外国人 (がいこくじん)

foreigner; foreign citizen; foreign national; alien; non-Japanese

目 (め)

eye; eyeball; eyesight; sight; vision; look; stare; glance; an experience; viewpoint; stitch; texture; weave; ordinal number suffix; somewhat; -ish

に (に)

at (place, time); in; on; during; to (direction, state); toward; into; for (purpose); because of (reason); for; with; by; from; as (i.e. in the role of); per; in; for; a (e.g. "once a month"); and; in addition to; if; although

如何 (どう、いかが、いか)

how; in what way; how about

映る (うつる)

to be reflected; to harmonize with (harmonise); to come out (photo); to be projected; to be displayed (on a screen)

か (か)

indicates a question (sometimes rhetorical); or; whether or not; some- (e.g. something, someone); indicates doubt, uncertainty, etc.; emphatic prefix; suffix forming adjectives or adverbs; in that way

気 (き)

spirit; mind; heart; nature; disposition; motivation; intention; mood; feelings; atmosphere; essence

為る (する)

to do; to cause to become; to make (into); to turn (into); to serve as; to act as; to work as; to wear (clothes, a facial expression, etc.); to judge as being; to view as being; to think of as; to treat as; to use as; to decide on; to choose; to be sensed (of a smell, noise, etc.); to be (in a state, condition, etc.); to be worth; to cost; to pass (of time); to elapse; verbalizing suffix (applies to nouns noted in this dictionary with the part of speech "vs"); creates a humble verb (after a noun prefixed with "o" or "go"); to be just about to; to be just starting to; to try to; to attempt to

者 (もの、もん)

person

居る (いる)

to be (of animate objects); to exist; to stay; (after the -te form of a verb) verb indicating continuing action or state (i.e. to be ..ing, to have been ..ing)