User:Manmaru

I originally joined to expand the Ise, Mie article, my "Japanese hometown", however most of my editing attention is now focused elsewhere...

I'm currently getting a lot of work done on translating articles from Japanese into English that deal with train lines, particularly Kintetsu lines. In addition to translating I'm creating a route diagram, service listing, and station table for each line article and standardizing these things as much as possible. I hope to cover every single Kintetsu article as well as some JR lines of interest to me. I also plan to translate a number of Japan-related articles about rivers, lakes, mountains, etc...

Background

 * Born in Westerville, Ohio, USA (near Columbus)
 * Raised in Centerville, Ohio, USA (near Dayton)
 * Went to college in Kent, Ohio, USA (near Akron)
 * Currently living in the city of Suzuka, Mie Prefecture, Japan

Education

 * Graduated from Kent State University
 * Bachelor degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics
 * Certificate in TEFL


 * Studied abroad at Technische Universität Dresden in Dresden, Germany


 * JLPT Level 1

Occupation

 * Worked as a computer technician in college
 * Currently working as an English teacher (courtesy the JET Program)

Interests

 * Japanese translation
 * Public transport systems (in particular, the Japanese train system)
 * Geography
 * Civil Engineering structures (in particular, bridges and highways)
 * History
 * Linguistics (in particular, Japanese linguistics)
 * Computer programming
 * Computing and web standards
 * The square root of five and the golden ratio
 * TEFL theory
 * Politics

Contributions
These are articles to which I have contributed either most or all of the content, some of which were initially created by me. I actively watch, maintain, and guard them, I also perform small standardization-based edits whenever need be.

I believe this is called 自己満足


 * Geography
 * Japan
 * List of lakes in Japan
 * Municipalities
 * Mie Prefecture
 * Ise • Matsusaka • Meiwa
 * Rivers
 * Kushida • Miya


 * People
 * Masao Mukai


 * Railways
 * Companies
 * Ise Electric Railway
 * Lines
 * JR Central
 * Sangū Line
 * Kintetsu
 * Hachiōji Line • Shima Line • Suzuka Line • Toba Line • Utsube Line • Yamada Line • Yunoyama Line
 * Sangi
 * Hokusei Line


 * Userboxes
 * Japanese Prefectures