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Tomomi Sasaki

Japanese Language Co-Editor

About Tomomi Sasaki

81 posts · joined 2008-12-22

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.

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Stories

November 16th, 2009

East Asia , Americas

Anpontan's post about the word “obamu” (オバむ) , a Japanese word play that's a verb form of “Obama”, was picked up by James Fallows at the Atlantic and is making its way across the blogosphere, although very few Japanese people actually seem to have heard of the word, as Daniel Krieger at cnngo reports.

East Asia

The Kirai blog describes what happened at his company after an employee caught a case of H1N1: “Notice that from his perspective, he is NOT a victim, he is the culprit of having caused so much trouble to the company: because he couldn’t work for one week and we had to wear a mask and worry about our health.“

Japan: In a World with Automatic Translation

A small portrait of the translator Tomomi Sasaki · 02:26 · East Asia
lingua → es · fr
In a post titled "I especially want to read 'trivial information", Japanese blogger Chikirin gives a fresh perspective on what's important or not and why in automated translation of the Web. 9 comments  · read »

November 15th, 2009

East Asia

Ed Jacob posted an English translation of an article “about how there was pretty much no garbage in Japan’s Edo Period because almost everything got recycled“.

November 14th, 2009

East Asia , Americas

Teddy Jimbo has posted both English and Japanese videos of U.S. President Obama's speech on Asian policies, given in Tokyo today.

November 12th, 2009

Sub-Saharan Africa , East Asia

“Information that you'll never find in guidebooks!” Emi, a Capetown resident that works in tourism, celebrates [ja] the launch of a Japanese portal for information about Capetown called “ケープタウン新聞 (Capetown News)”.

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