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Another Reason Not to Use Online Translators
Responses to my online translator post were mixed. Some people agreed, while others got defensive*. Past differences of thought aside, I found something today that argues unequivocally in favor of my point. It seems that Kosuke Fukudome, a right fielder for the Chicago Cubs, has some well-meaning but very Japanese-illiterate fans. At a Cubs game [...]
Continue reading...Tofugu’s Japan Week in Review 1: Fukuda, Elevators, & Mochi Death
5. January 2008
December 27, 2007 - January 4, 2008 Every week (i.e. whenever time allows), I’ll be doing a “Japan week in review.” These segments will cover smaller news articles from throughout the week that we don’t want to cover individually. Although these articles of news won’t necessarily be very important, they’ll surely be interesting instead. Included after [...]
Continue reading...Japanese Youtubers Part I: Moonkey4U
19. August 2007
When you’ve ridden the youtube village tricycle a few times, you’ll realize that there are a bunch of undeserving popular folks, and just as many talented unpopular ones. Moonkey4U falls into the latter category.Though Moonkey provides a variety of different videos, all of them are of high quality. Sometimes he just talks into the camera [...]
Continue reading...Japan’s Top Producer of Ugly Women: Gunma*
6. August 2007
*Paraphrased translation of 「ブスの産地」日本一は「群馬県」 from the Shukan Shincho website. According to a recent online poll conducted by Livedoor, a Japan-based internet service provider, the women of Gunma Prefecture (群馬県) are the most unattractive in Japan. Ouch. That’s right, out of Japan’s 47 prefectures, Gunma, located in the middle of the Japanese archipelago, placed dead [...]
Continue reading...Profile 1: Segata Sanshiro > Chuck Norris
25. June 2007
*This article marks the beginning of the “profile” section, which discovers fairly obscure Japanese people that should be ruling the world. The goal is to find someone new every week (or every once in a while), so saying that, we’ll be adding a “profile” category over on the right. Check it out for new people [...]
Continue reading...MoMu and Ultraman sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G
21. June 2007
First comes love, then comes–oops! Ah well, can’t get it right all the time. I’m referring, of course, to the July 17th wedding of Nozomi Tsuji, former Morning Musume (I only know her from this) and Taiyou Sugiura, of Ultraman Cosmos fame. Interestingly enough, their marriage was a “done-it marriage” (できちゃった結婚 or デキコン); at the time [...]
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3. June 2008