Japanese verb tenses – the “past, present and future” can be confusing partly because standard explanations of even the English tense system is rather obscure and misleading.
If you’re reading this, then that probably doesn’t matter for you in English (though it confuses a lot of learners). But it muddies the waters of Japanese and makes the Japanese tenses seem more obscure than they need to be.
So how do we go about setting it all straight?
Easy. Let an android doll do it for you.
This video will make everything clear!