Writer, poet, and JP/EN translator based in Nagasaki. "On Japan" article series now available on Substack. Hebrews 4:14-16
Nagasaki-shi, Nagasaki
Joined May 2019
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For anyone who didn't see the first post, I started a Substack this month. I plan on posting weekly articles about Japan, as well as news posts on current happenings for paid subscribers.
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I'm currently in a situation where I hear the Japanese theme song *far* more than the English version, and the funniest things about it are that the clips make far more sense aligned with the Japanese lyrics and the English version is just straight cooler.
The original POKÉMON theme had millions of kids ready to leave home, travel across the world and become the very best. Jason Paige sang like winning the Pokémon League was a matter of life and death. An all-time childhood anthem. ⚡️
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The original POKÉMON theme had millions of kids ready to leave home, travel across the world and become the very best. Jason Paige sang like winning the Pokémon League was a matter of life and death. An all-time childhood anthem. ⚡️
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The search for the next James Bond is over. Bone. Wishbone.
ALT A debonair Wishbone wears a white dinner jacket and bow tie.
There's something loathe in me to actually pay money for the premium version of this platform, but another part of me wonders how much of an impact boosting posts about my Substack articles might have.
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I really can't ever get over the fact that Nintendo ads internationally are pretty muted in tone and design, but Nintendo ads in Japan pretty much always use some big celebrity out-of-pocket. It always gets a laugh out of me.
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I'm going to be that guy; Kyoto (京都) and Tokyo (東京) are named as such because "Kyoto," which literally means "capital city," was Japan's capital for centuries. When the emperor moved to Edo in 1868, they renamed it "Tokyo," or "eastern capital," to designate his presence.
It's a bit of a hot button issue these days, but the thing that effectively killed my attitude that the closer the translation the better was actually becoming a JP/EN translator and realizing just how little a 1 to 1 translation would actually work.
Check out my Substack if you want more pieces on Japan! The fastest article is on the tourism industry, with a new post every Friday!
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This isn't to say that you can or should add your own meaning to translations, but there's a lot of nuance that gets lost if you just use one-to-one wording.
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The desire to translate something online from Japanese to English because you understand the source text is inversely proportional to how good at Japanese you are.
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People in the comments are saying things like, "We should bring this back," but I'm pretty sure this is why paintball and airsoft are still popular to this day.
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