In Japan, books are windows to the world

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Osaka, in Japan, is Japan's second city but its biggest bookstore dwarfs anything in Chicago or in New York or Cambridge. The ground floor of the store is filled mangas, the Japanese comics that have incredible claim on the reading public and the second floor is filled with endless shelves of popular culture, books on films, theatre, pop star of every kind and Japanese fiction.

Criticism and interpretation, Japanese fiction

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Translation and 'true language.'(book translation and international understanding)

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The process of waiting for a book to be translated into another language can be frustrating slow, but it is a difficult process. The translator must find a universal meaning that can be comprehended in the new language. This understanding of the meaning of the words comes close to a true international language.

Social aspects, International aspects, Language and languages, Globalization

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Thoughts on translation

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A Japanese novelist expresses her appreciation for the slow pace of translation. She appreciates the slow, careful work of translators of her novels from Japanese into other languages.

Personal narratives, Appreciation, Novelists, Translations and translating, Modern literature, Translators (Persons)

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