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• 05.13.09
  The new GV Japan Team, Japan Times article   Blogging, Media, Translation (0)

  Wow, been behind in updating this blog, but quite a bit of news to report. The first thing (old news at this point, but important to mention anyway) is that as of April 1st I am no longer co-Japanese language editor at Global Voices. I’ve been replaced in that role by former Tokyo Art Beat [...]

• 01.29.09
  NHK starts 24-hour English-language service   Events, Media (1)

  Haven’t written much here lately, but this news is big: NHK announced on January 28th (at a press conference which I attended) that it will begin a 24-hour global English-language TV service starting on Monday.

• 11.06.08
  Waiwai from the inside out   Blogging, Media, Translation (1)

  A quick follow-up post to mention that Adam Richards from Mutant Frog Travelogue and I together translated an article posted in August at CNET Japan by Toshinao Sasaki about the now infamous WaiWai scandal.

• 11.06.08
  The day Japan’s netizens turned news on its head   Blogging, Media (2)

  Japan Inc. was nice enough to publish an article of mine about the use of net media in Japan in this month’s issue. The main thing I wrote about in the article was the live streaming of the Akihabara knife massacre on June 8th, a topic I’ve written about before for Global Voices and also [...]

• 10.18.08
  Television industry in Japan faces huge losses   Business, Media (3)

  Since I don’t see anyone writing about this anywhere else, I’m just going to jot down a few notes from this article in Japanese at r25.jp about Japan’s TV industry, which is apparently facing massive losses.

• 06.19.08
  Article in Translation Journal   Blogging, Media, Translation (0)

  An article of mine about translation in Global Voices and Project Lingua, titled “Translation and Participatory Media: Experiences from Global Voices“, has been published online at Translation Journal. In the article I outline how translation and languages fit into the day-to-day operations of Global Voices, and also try to situate the function of translation in [...]

• 05.16.08
  Kanaloco: the power of participation   Business, Media (0)

  I’m reading “Blog Journalism: Media for 3 million people” right now and stumbled on an interesting passage that I thought I would translate. The passage features the book’s three co-authors Yukawa Tsuruaki, Takada Masayuki and Fujishiro Hiroyuki discussing participatory journalism (Chapter 8, p. 129-130).

• 04.11.08
  Miete kita mirai   Events, Media (0)

  Ten years after the burst of Japan’s economic bubble, with the erosion of a common sense of values that had been shared for many years through an earlier period of strong economic growth, we face an era of confusion in which it is not even clear what we should believe in.
  That’s my rough translation of [...]

• 03.22.08
  Interviewed by Asahi’s Komimi   Blogging, Interviews, Media (4)

  The Japanese language team at Global Voices (myself and my co-editor) were interviewed by Asahi’s new Komimi online news portal, a new site created to “introduce original articles and conversations from across the country”. Both of us are really happy with the way the article turned out in the end, so to “give a little [...]

• 03.09.08
  WeMedia: Who are “we”?   Blogging, Business, Events, Media (1)

  Here it is a week later, and I can finally sit back for a second and reflect on my first experience attending We Media in Miami. (I’ve also posted a couple live-blogged point form summaries of talks here and here.)

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