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Title: Is he Onii-chan in Japanese version?
[picture of "big brother" from the movie 1984]
Text: In 1984, there is a character called "Big Brother". Did they translate it as "Onii-chan" or is there any other way of saying big brother?
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[–] 82 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (11 children)

Actually had me curious so I looked it up. The Japanese version of the Wikipedia page is titled ビッグ・ブラアー so it looks like they just transliterated the English term instead of translating it into Japanese.

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