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!
Three cheers for Japanese.
I got your back too!
By the way, what’s up with that photo? I don’t get the relevance.
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.
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.