Roll call: who can read Japanese?August 20th, 2005 by Adamu |
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I’m just wondering how useful it would be for me to post Japanese-language links on this site. Take the following for instance:
Nippon News Network—Low-res videos of Japanese news stories. No ads, good selection.
Asahi Net News—Higher res, but the high res videos don’t seem to load well on my DSL.
The Diet NOW—A daily column by “citizen journalist” Hideo Hamada covering events in the Japanese Diet. His analysis has been indispensible for me recently as I try and understand developments leading up to the election.
Those are some things I’ve been reading. I’m interested to know how many people are out there who are like me (English native speaker who speaks/reads Japanese) and care about sites like that. Let me know!
August 21st, 2005 at 5:58 am
Three cheers for Japanese.
August 21st, 2005 at 9:46 am
I got your back too!
August 21st, 2005 at 9:47 am
By the way, what’s up with that photo? I don’t get the relevance.
August 21st, 2005 at 11:15 am
OK, let me explain about the photo: I did a Google Image Search for “Horie” thinking I might find a sweet caricature of the business-mogul-turned-politician to put on the site, but instead I came across this picture of Ms. Kanako Horie, who, while looking to be about 13, is actually a psychology student in New Zealand. I decided to use it in the post because a) She fits my target audience (English speaker who reads Japanese, presumably) and b) It’s a good photo of someone diligent in their studies, just the kind of person I want reading my site.
August 24th, 2005 at 11:00 am
don`t forget there are people like me who are foreigners to english and japanese, but can manage (to a certain extent) both. would love to read articles in japanese, too.