About Tomomi Sasaki
Systems engineer living in Tokyo. Former freelance translator and editor for Tokyo Art Beat. My personal blog is ripplet.jp [ja].
I'm the Japanese Language Editor for Global Voices with Scilla Alecci. I also translate for Global Voices in Japanese. Links and suggestions for post topics are always welcome.
Latest posts by Tomomi Sasaki
Stories
October 29th, 2009
Japan: When Your Wife is Sick
October 27th, 2009
East Asia
The Kininaruu blog is enthusiastic about Manga no Shinbun ('Manga Newspaper'), a new Japanese website that publishes news stories as manga illustrations. Boo-hee thinks it's a good medium in a world overflowing with information [ja]. Hiroshi Hara posted an image of a similar attempt in his high school years.
October 6th, 2009
Japan: Reactions to Tokyo's Olympic Bid (Part Two)
What does the Japanese blogosphere and Twitterverse have to say about Tokyo's bid to host the 2016 Olympics? Part Two introduces some reactions after Rio won the bid.
October 2nd, 2009
Japan: Reactions to Tokyo's Olympic Bid (Part One)
What does the Japanese blogosphere and Twitterverse have to say about Tokyo's bid to host the 2016 Olympics? Part One introduces some reactions before the announcements at the bid ceremony on October 2nd.
September 30th, 2009
Japan: Anime Character ‘Masuo-san' on Twitter
Sazae-san, a comedy chronicling the lives of the fictional Isono family, is one of Japan's longest-running and oldest comic strips and animations. The animated series first aired in 1969 and is broadcast every Sunday from 6:30 to 7:00. It's not much of an exaggeration to say that at some point ...
September 28th, 2009
Japan: Lessons in Communication from the Hatoyama Essay
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