Comments on J-List side blog: How to Search Google in Japanese

Actually, Peter, Google Japan recently implemented...

2009-05-20T01:20:00.000+09:00

Actually, Peter, Google Japan recently implemented a feature that will sometimes allow you to search for Japanese kana or kanji terms in plain old romaji. For details, see the following post:

http://googlejapan.blogspot.com/2009/01/google.html

Good point! I'll remember that if I ever get one o...

2009-05-19T12:22:00.001+09:00

Good point! I'll remember that if I ever get one of those. I guess a gaijin would have difficulty using a Death Note against Japanese for that reason ^_^

Good point! I'll remember that if I ever get one o...

2009-05-19T12:22:00.000+09:00

Good point! I'll remember that if I ever get one of those. I guess a gaijin would have difficulty using a Death Note against Japanese for that reason ^_^

This is one bit that amused me in DeathNote. I be...

2009-05-19T05:23:00.000+09:00

This is one bit that amused me in DeathNote. I believe at one point they showed Light (?) trying out several different ways of writing a name before the bad guy buys it.

strange i only see four different ways to write ay...

2009-05-19T04:37:00.000+09:00

strange i only see four different ways to write ayumi in kanji. but thats just a tiny quibble. i did not know some people only spell their first names in hiragana only.

are there some japanese who only use katagana?

this brings up the artist formerly known (and now currently as well) as prince or that strange symbol... theres no way to type that into google

that does seem pretty tricky to do!

2009-05-18T23:29:00.000+09:00

that does seem pretty tricky to do!