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The Inaccuracy of Online Translation Sites
Have you ever tried translating a foreign language site using something like babelfish or the Google translator? Well if you had tried using them then I am sure you have already noticed the complete inaccuracy of these ...
Tags: japanese, people, live, foreign, online, language, wife, yahoo, google
What Japanese wants to watch on TV during summer
In answer to the poll "What foreign TV series do you want to view thoroughly this summer holiday?", in itself not such a strange question, there were some in my opinion highly unexpected results - please see below...
Tags: japan, japanese, korean, show, movie, tv, popular, series, summer, foreign, drama, sex, prison, heroes, tv series
Who exactly is ripping off whom?
Ran across some strange happenings in webdom the other day, something that really has us scratching our heads over here at the International JAPUNDIT Media Complex.
Tags: japan, japanese, people, tokyo, us, 2008, show, man, american, girl, media, english, international, foreign, language, celebrity, tour, otaku, restaurant, mobile, test, travel, probe
The essay is by Ann Condi who has extensive experience working inside Chinese state media. You can read a previous essay by Condi on Danwei: Self-censorship: the 2,000 pound rhinoceros on the dining table.
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NOVELIST AND AUTHOR Mark Mordue has some discouraging words about the Beijing Olympics in an op-ed piece appearing in The Age (of Australia) titled Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon:n(T)hese Games are about symbolically ...
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Japan FM to visit China over dumpling scare
Japan's foreign minister said Sunday he would visit China during the Olympic Games to press Beijing to speed up a probe into a health scare involving Chinese dumplings.
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The Myth of Chinese Gold in the Economic Development of Taiwan
It's quite common for the ignorant, duped, and malicious to claim that Taiwan got rich because Chiang Kai-shek looted all the gold from China, and that gold then formed the financial foundation for Taiwan's development.
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Louisiana School Board Considers English-Only Grad Speeches
Vietnamese students provoke potential policy nIn Louisiana's Terrebonne Parish, Ellender Memorial High School co-valedictorians and cousins Hue and Cindy Vo delivered graduation speeches on May 19, unaware that...
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The Way Home Otherwise Know As Jibeuro
I strongly recommend that all y'all go watch this movie. Then call your grandmothers and grovel a bit. Give her money too darnit!
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1 out of 30 Japanese babies has a Non-Japanese parent
Though this is not considered an Otaku-like news. I nonetheless found this interesting and decided to share this with all of you. This contains some interesting facts that has changed how I ....
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Ninja Training for Tourists in Japan
Foreign visitors have always flocked to traditional tourist spots in Japan like Kyoto, the Sapporo Snow Festival, hot-springs baths and Mount Fuji.
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1 out of every 30 babies born in Japan in 2006 had at least one non-Japanese parent
Some interesting statistics that reflect changes in Japan: Around 19,000 of the babies had non-Japanese fathers, 26,000 had non- Japanese mothers, while both parents of 9,000 originated abroad, according to the survey.
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Few foreigners in Tibet despite re-opening after riots
BEIJING: Foreign tourists and reporters are still few and far between in Tibet, witnesses and hotel employees say, even though China lifted a ban on foreigners visiting the Himalayan region a month ago.
Establishing Trust with the Chinese
Longtime Washington and US government China policy analysts Richard C. Bush and Jeff Bader are out with an all-too Establishment piece that seems to live in its own dreamworld on US-China relations, calling on Obama and ....
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Book collector Yuan Shang enjoys accumulating foreign language dictionaries. "By reading dictionaries," he says, "we can see how western ideas were accepted by the Chinese people."
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Jet Li and Michelle Yeoh: From 'Tai Chi Master' to 'The Mummy'
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, the third in the popular franchise, pretty much follows the same plot as the previous films: Mummy comes to life, wants to take over the world and is eventually defeated by Brendan...
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The 2008 World Cosplay summit will be taking place this weekend in Nagoya, and senior vice foreign minister Itsunori Onodera (pictured above) has been meeting with cosplayers to promote the event...
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The nascent Japanese eco-skepticism
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace in a continual state of alarm (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing them with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
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The New York Times recently reported on a new trend in Japanese tourism, both those visiting Japan and Japanese going abroad. While fewer Japanese are traveling outside the country, more foreigners are visiting; most of whom ....
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More on the Busan - Takeshima paradigm
HERE ARE THE Joongang Daily's headlines for today's lead story on its Internet edition:nU.S. agency joins fray over DokdonChanging its designation of islets indicates sovereignty is in dispute...
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