So the moral panic du jour is mobile-phone-enabled cheating by kids sitting the entrance exams at major universities. One test-taker posted various questions to Yahoo’s “Chiebukuro” Q-and-A website. Now it’s come to light that someone “helping” him with an English question was just feeding his Japanese text through an online translation tool. He copied that [...]
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Microbrew event in Tokyo
On Monday, March 14, the DIJ (German Institute for Japanese Studies) Business and Economics Study Group is hosting a presentation titled “Putting the ji in ji-bīru: Policy, deregulation and entrepreneurship in the Japanese microbrewery industry.” Sounds like it might be a good one if you’re interested in government policy and its impact on our favorite [...]
Mishima article
I went ahead and scanned the Japan Echo piece I mentioned in my last post. You can go grab it here: Mishima_dialogue.pdf It weighs in at more than 6 MB, so don’t click it if you’re on a slow connection.
Ishihara on Mishima
I was looking through back issues of Japan Echo and found a 1995 dialogue between Ishihara Shintarō and Nosaka Akiyuki. Since the Tokyo governor has been in the news lately for his views on homosexuality, I found this part fascinating: ——— I was reading Mishima before I met him, from around the time I was [...]
Literary translation contest
The Japanese Literature Publishing Project is running a literary translation competition “with a view to discovering and fostering brilliant translators who can help introduce and spread modern Japanese literature throughout the world.” It’s the first such contest run by the JLPP, and it seems to be similar to the Shizuoka International Translation Competition, sadly no [...]
