Greetings my fellow Japanese-English speaking/reading/writing friends. I suppose I should do a short self introduction before I get into anything of any real substance. I am a fresh out of college (a year ago) girl (woman?) who moved to Japan last year to become an English "teacher" at elementary schools and junior high schools in Japan. Due to the ( Read more... )

I'm translating a text for university and got stuck on this paragraph that I find somewhat hard to understand. The text is from 1938 so the style is pretty old-fashioned (many bungo forms and so on). The following paragraph is about the importance of education for an aspiring world power country like Japan in the early Showa era.

この際世界各国人の必要とすることは、 ( Read more... )

この空がつなぐ世界で ( Read more... )

If I'm not bothering anyone, could you please help me with a few translations ( Read more... )

Before, I posted in Japan Forums asking for a translator who was fluent in Japanese who would be willing to work for free to help me translate some doujinshi because I have never taken a class and is self-taught; I got flamed for it because the members there believed that if they are willing to sacrifice their time to translate something as ( Read more... )

I was wondering if anyone could translate the song "Psychoanalysis" by Ego Wrappin'.

Lyrics can be found here, and the music can be heard on youtube here.

I create fanvids and would like to know if I could use this song for anything, hence my request for a lyric translation.

(posting here in the hope of getting a bit more input...)1. which sounds better ( Read more... )

Just a note:
There seems to have been a virus or hacker around LJ affecting communities, you can read about it here:
ご注意ください：いろいろのコミュニティーでウイルスとかにされていたかもしれない。情報はこちらへ：　
http://upstart-crow.livejournal.com/346623.html

If something like that happens here, rest assured nejypoo and i don't plan on ( Read more... )

I humbly ask for help in translating this phrase...
( 天衣無縫 )

Hello I am new to this community and new to learning Japanese. I've barely completed my first semester and am working hard at learning the language. I like to watch j-dramas and have recently joined a fansub group as an uploader, since I'm not that helpful in the translation part yet ( Read more... )