Thanks to the simple instructions here:
Japan It Up! WordPress in Japanese and English
I ws finally able to mix up Japanese and English on this blog. My other blog BigDaddyJapan uses a Japanese version of WordPress so mixing English and Japanese is no problem. Now both blogs can have bilingual elements so I’m pretty happy about that.
Thanks a lot to Japan It Up.
So I bought myself about 33 liters of gas today for about 122 yen per liter. That’s a pretty good price for today, and an amazing price for tomorrow. The newspaper’s warning us that prices might go up to 160 in some places. Prime Minister Fukuda even came on air to apologize and thank the…
A student killed himself in a bathroom at school. Everyone around him seems to think it was “bullying” or ijime in Japanese, but the school will never admit it. If it’s determined that the cause is ijime, the school, teachers, guilty students, parents of the guilty students, and all the levels of school boards up…
I don’t know if the writer agrees with me completely, but in this article, “Warm Reception May Not Await iPhone in Japan“, a Japan Times journalists voices a lot of the sentiments I wrote about in my blog entry titled “The iPhone in Japan?” last year. I’m still using my trusty Toshiba W52T pictured below…
The headline reads “Group with Google and others building cross-Pacific Broadband cable”. The important point though is who the “others are” in this case. One “other” is Bharti Airtel Limited, an Indian integrated telecom services provider. Others are various asian communications and mobile products companies… however one of the group which calls itself “Unity”… is…
Here’s the story that caught my eye today… “Students use mobile phones over an hour a day for e-mail, Net surfing” (Japan Times) Point one: This headline is misleading because it includes elementary school kids. If you looked at the average times mentioned at the bottom, the average for junior and senior high kids is…
This according to an article in CNET Japan. There are three major mobile phone providers in Japan. AU KDDI, Docomo, and Softbank. Softbank is owned by Yahoo Japan. There were tons of rumors that the iPhone would come to Japan with Docomo. Softbank Mobile today announced that it would be releasing the iPhone within the…