The bloggers and Twitter users and whatnot are up in arms about an affront to their 2010 sensibilities: Hayao Miyazaki Compares iPad Use To Masturbation. Kotaku delivers the goods in an article that covers a wildly popular animator, a wildly popular bit of new tech, and a wildly popular activity. Think of the page impressions, man! Now [...]
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You voted for who?
With the rising number of celebrity candidates in Japan’s Diet elections comes a rising number of possible ways to vote for them, according to this article: 「柔ちゃん」○「金メダリスト」×＝ニックネームで投票すると…―総務省・参院選. A hurried sort-of-paraphrased translation is below. Many candidates for the House of Councillors election taking place this Sunday] are famous figures from the sporting or entertainment worlds, and [...]
My bookshelf
Like the title says. These are some of the paper references I use in my work as a translator and editor. (The links take you to amazon.co.jp pages on the things.) Of course I do plenty of research and look up lots of terms online, but Wikipedia and Google and so on have yet to [...]
Japan Echo Web
My company’s latest project, Japan Echo Web, went online this afternoon. (It will do the same in Chinese in a couple days.) Here’s a post to mark the occasion and to give an overview of what has happened over the last year or so.
Studying Japanese
I think back on the days I spent studying Japanese. My copy of Nelson’s open on my desk, a notebook beside it, row after row of handwritten kanji. An article from the satellite edition of the Asahi Shimbun that Professor Gessel photocopied for us and a Kenkyusha dictionary of some sort to dig up new [...]
