Day: May 25, 2022

All images from Wikipedia “Chiya Dam” Dams. Certainly not the most glamorous subject, but still quite the feat of engineering! This project saw me volunteer translate on Wikipedia an article about Chiya Dam in Okayama Prefecture, Japan. Lakeside perspective of the dam Who Gives a Dam? Dams are a new area of translating for me, and this …

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Image from Kogei Japan “Akazu ware (Akazu-Yaki“) Translation brings you down many interesting paths where you are encouraged, if not forced, to learn about a veritable cornucopia of different subject areas and disciplines. In this article, I discuss the process of volunteer translating a brief Wikipedia article on Japanese Akazu ware, a type of pottery located near …

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