User talk:Michitaro/Archive 4

Thank You!
Thanks for editing the kanji on Yuya Yoshida. I don't speak Japanese, so feel free to correct or add the Japanese names for other Japanese judokas. Thanks a lot, appreciate it. Pink-seoul-judo
 * No problem. I try to patrol new pages on Japan and correct such issues if I find them. Michitaro (talk) 03:25, 26 February 2016 (UTC)

3RR
You made four revert on Ethnic issues in Japan. Please self-revert your last revert so that you may not be blocked for edit warring.―― Phoenix7777 (talk) 00:15, 7 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks for mentioning it, . It's been a while since I have dealt with a user like this. I have done what you requested, but my understanding is that WP:3RR is excused in the case of vandalism. While this may not have initially been intentional vandalism, the user repeatedly included false and misrepresented information even after I showed that it was false and asked for a discussion on the talk page. I guess the question is when vandalism is "obvious" or not. Thanks for correcting the page after my reversion. Michitaro (talk) 00:25, 7 March 2016 (UTC)

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Japanese Baseball Player Yuta Arakawa
Passes WP:NBASE Have appeared in at least one game in any one of the following active major leagues: Major League Baseball, Nippon Professional Baseball, Korea Baseball Organization or have participated in a major international competition (such as the World Baseball Classic, Baseball World Cup or Olympics) as a member of a national team. BlackAmerican (talk) 12:13, 2 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Who are you referring to? Michitaro (talk) 12:20, 2 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Yuta Arakawa BlackAmerican (talk) 12:26, 2 August 2016 (UTC)
 * OK, I see. The problem is that, as the JA Wikipedia page says, he never played a single game with the first team. I have consulted with the relevant wiki project about whether this passes WP:NBASE: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Baseball. Michitaro (talk) 12:32, 2 August 2016 (UTC)

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Your draft article, Draft:Gajirō Satō


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Kurogane kanji edits
Hello, thank you for reviewing the kanji and making corrections; as you might have guessed, I am using Google Translate and the recommendations may not be entirely accurate. I plan to translate more from Kurogane and their present company name articles on JW and place on EW, including the Kurogane Baby. As I progress, could I contact you from time to time to make sure the kanji is correct? Domo (Regushee (talk) 18:40, 23 December 2016 (UTC)) Hello, and thanks for the kanji proofreading assistance. This is from the JW article for Kurogane's previous name, Japan Internal Combustion Engine Company starting in 1917.
 * Feel free to contact me. I was trying to check on some of the kanji, but was not always successful. For instance, I don't see how 秀工舎 could be read "Hidenko" unless it was a nickname (it should be read Hide Kōsha or Shūkōsha). Also, while 黒金 is one rendering of kurogane, 鉄 is more common. And it seems the company didn't use the kanji and instead used the hiragana くろがね. There are still a number of things that need checking in that article. Michitaro (talk) 22:08, 23 December 2016 (UTC)

自動車技術者・蒔田鉄司(まきた てつじ 1888－1958)の手で1917年に設立された個人工場「秀工舎」が起源.

From what I've learned, 「」represents " ", it could be an error from the JW editor who created the article, which appears to have been back in 2008. This article looks like it doesn't get much attention. (Regushee (talk) 23:21, 23 December 2016 (UTC)) Hidenko is what shows up when Google Translate replaces the kanji, and I don't know if it's correct.(Regushee (talk) 05:20, 24 December 2016 (UTC)) Thanks for your edits; didn't realize "kurogane" means "iron", which is dark or black metal. From the stub articles on JW, it seems logical for the purpose of information consolidation to combine the former contributing companies into Kurogane, while leaving links to JW in the EW article, and I'm guessing most English readers will appreciate everything being combined into one page instead of stub articles to matching JW entries. I have suggested on JW for a merge for Japan Internal Combustion Co. into Kurogane, but it was reverted. There is also a lot of information for JW Ohta Jidosha that could be added to the EW article; found information that shows Ohta contributed to Prince Motor Company which was also eventually merged into Nissan. I had no idea Nissan had such a history of mergers and acquisitions, which is what Wikipedia is all about. Thanks!(Regushee (talk) 02:57, 25 December 2016 (UTC))
 * I do not dispute that it was called 秀工舎. That can be found in other sources such as this academic article, which uses the variation 秀工社. I just need to know where you got the reading Hidenko. Michitaro (talk) 03:34, 24 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Kurogane clean-up

Hentai Club
Actually, selling sex to foreigners wouldn't disqualify them from having an article here. "Wikipedia is not censored" is not 100% accurate - we won't have illustrations of child porn (so far as I know, not having looked - I think the WMF legal department would quickly step in there and take an 'office action'), for one thing - but if a business like this is notable there's no reason I can see for not having an article (other than promo or copyvio). This one was promo, and I added A7 lack of significance too. There are articles about some well known brothels in the USA past and present (List of brothels in Nevada for some current ones, but don't ask me for others...) and probably other places too. Peridon (talk) 16:18, 27 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the info. I figured that wasn't necessarily the case, but since this is an active club that may (or may not) be involved in activities against Japanese law, I wonder if there could be repercussions for essentially promoting it. Anyway, I went with lack of notability (which I think is obvious), but also noted the promotional aspect in my comments. Michitaro (talk) 16:25, 27 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Escort services are generally not illegal (except in the more religiously based nations). There can be problems with nannying software - I had great difficulty once on a school network trying to get info on a Ford Escort (car) - but not usually with the law. I would think that the mention in a reference of 'love hotels', and the 'escorting' not being done on company premises, means it's legal. (Technically and officially, the girl is there to stop a person being on their own in a strange place. Whatever methods she uses to make him feel not alone are up to them.) Illegality or immorality don't prevent notability, anyway. They can sometimes enhance it. Peridon (talk) 16:55, 27 February 2017 (UTC)

narifuri
Hello Michitaro! I have noticed that you have tagged in narifuri  article. I wish to solve the problems one by one, as I din in the original article in Japanese.

1: in what part did you decided to have this tag? 2: Could you please tell me or correct the specific typos and grammars in the article to be a proper English? 3: Could you volunteer to this article to have it corrected and untagged?

Thank you very much. Hoping to hear from you soon.

Mangorecorder (talk) 22:20, 24 March 2017 (UTC)

Your interest in Yamamoto
Recently I placed the film Ran (film) for GA assessment and thought to ask if you might have a glance at the article given your interest in Kurosawa's mentor Yamamoto to see if you or someone you might know among the editors might take an interest in possibly assessing this article for Wikipedia. JohnWickTwo (talk) 18:46, 26 June 2017 (UTC)

Toyoyi Aihara
Hi Michitaro. I don't know if you saw my reply on the talkpage. I'm happy to move it (the article, that is, not my reply...) Thanks.  Lugnuts  Fire Walk with Me 11:46, 4 August 2017 (UTC)

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富田林寺内町について
こんにちは. Days for archaeologyと申します. Tondabayashi Jinaimachiの編集について、一点確認させてください. 英語ですと上手く説明できないと思いますので、日本語で失礼いたします.

冒頭文の"It is one of the Important Preservation Districts for Groups of Traditional Buildings in Tondabayashi-shi Tondabayashi (富田林市富田林重要伝統的建造物群保存地区)."の箇所ですが、「in Tondabayashi-shi Tondabayashi」とした理由を教えて下さい.

私は「富田林市富田林として(as Tondabayashi-shi Tondabayashi)」としました. これは、富田林市富田林重要伝統的建造物群保存地区という名称は、他の伝建地区の表記に合わせたものだと考えているからです.

本文に書きましたように、現在の富田林市に富田林という行政界は存在しません. 北西部は、かつて富田林村(一里山町・会所町・富山町の一部)でしたが、現在は本町に属します. また、伝建地区は一部で土居の下まで含んでいるため、南西部の亀が坂と向田坂に挟まれた部分は、現在は富田林町に属しますが、かつては毛人谷村もしくは向田村の一部でしたので富田林村(西林町)には含まれていません.

富田林市富田林もしくは富田林寺内町とされている伝建地区の範囲は都市計画決定に基づくもので、近世の富田林村、近代の富田林町大字富田林、現代の富田林市富田林町のいずれとも微妙に異なっていると認識しています. 私の認識はご説明いたしましたので、これ以上リバートするつもりはありません. --Days for archaeology (talk) 09:34, 18 June 2018 (UTC)


 * メッセージありがとうございます. 日本語はできますが、英語で書いた方が早いですので、英語で返事させていただきます. First, "as Tondabyashi-shi Tondabayashi" is grammatically incorrect in this sentence. If you want to preserve the meaning "として", "as" does not work here. You have to make it something like "It is one of the Important Preservation Districts for Groups of Traditional Buildings in the Place Known as Tondabayashi-shi Tondabayashi (富田林市富田林重要伝統的建造物群保存地区)." Also, my original edit did not only change this but made other important edits such as inserting spaces before parentheses (not including a space is a mistake many Japanese make). Please do not revert all these edits if you only have a problem with one edit. Michitaro (talk) 11:53, 18 June 2018 (UTC)


 * Sure. I'm terribly sorry. Thanks for your advices and emendations. --Days for archaeology (talk) 12:26, 18 June 2018 (UTC)

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Kinema Junpo
Hello! I saw you had participated in editing the page for Kinema Junpo, and I was wondering if you know of any way to access old articles from the magazine? I have been trying to improve some of the articles on Japaneses cyberpunk films, and it would be really helpful to have some critical reviews from the year that the films came out. For example, I'm working on Burst City right now, and I can see here that there are multiple articles from 1982. The big problem is that I don't know any Japanese, so I have been using Google Translate which only gets me so far. If you have any tips, let me know! Thanks! --Secundus Zephyrus (talk) 04:24, 30 July 2018 (UTC)


 * Glad to hear you've been working on those articles, but I am afraid there is not much you can do other than just getting the magazine at a library, scanning it with OCR, and trying to use Google translate. Kinema Junpo is not available in digitized form anywhere. Depending on where you live, a local university library might have the journal: see here. Michitaro (talk) 11:54, 30 July 2018 (UTC)
 * That's very helpful, thank you!! --Secundus Zephyrus (talk) 17:35, 30 July 2018 (UTC)

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Happiness of Us Alone
Dear Michitaro! Can you make an article about old Japanese movie Happiness of Us Alone (名もなく貧しく美しく) which remade in Hindi Koshish? If you make this article I will be grateful! Thank you! —-178.66.108.215 (talk) 08:46, 22 February 2019 (UTC)

Tokyo
I am not aware where A Page of Madness was shot. I merely added the Tokyo category because the production section covers its screening there: "The famous benshi Musei Tokugawa narrated the film at the Musashinokan theater in Shinjuku in Tokyo." Dimadick (talk) 18:34, 30 March 2019 (UTC)


 * Thank you for the explanation, but by that logic, any film made in Japan in the 1920s could fit in that category because every film showed in Tokyo. Even foreign films shown in Tokyo could be put in this category. A definition of a category that is so expansive loses meaning. Michitaro (talk) 22:18, 30 March 2019 (UTC)

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The Group 1965
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