Wikipedia talk:Japan-related topics notice board/Jan-Jun07

Honshu
Hello. Should Category:Volcanoes of Honshu be moved to Category:Volcanoes of Honshū ? Thank you. - Darwinek 23:31, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Yes. I thought we took care of most of those last fall; but, I guess it fell through the cracks. Neier 00:55, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Jung Myung Seok
Some help resolving disputes concerning Jung Myung Seok would be appreciated. He's a Korean, but I know a few months ago he was all over Japanese news, and even a little bit in the last few days. Plus the Japanese Jung Myung Seok wikipage is much more developed than the Korean one. Since Jung Myung Seok is mostly unknown in the English speaking world, the article really needs editors who are familiar with the media overseas coming in to help out. Thanks. RB972 04:20, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

TfD nomination of Template:Disputed islands claimed by Japan
Template:Disputed islands claimed by Japan has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. --Endroit 17:43, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

eye exams
There seems to be a bit of misinformation here. Amusing, if I could read the smaller characters; but, not anything you would find at an optometrist. Since I'm not sure if hiragana are ever used (all I've ever done is left/right/top/bottom for the gaps in the circles; but, that could be a Sendai thing), I'll leave the editorial correction to someone with more of a clue than me. Neier 12:44, 2 March 2007 (UTC)


 * That's funny! Too small for my eyes, though. I put in a reply Fg2 22:52, 2 March 2007 (UTC)


 * I can't find the question, but can confirm from personal (incredulous) experience (i.e. "Original Research", so of course my confirmation is worthless) that hiragana are used. -- four eyes 10:32, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Here's the question, and answers. Mostly, the amusing part was the linked eye-chart.  A slightly larger format is here. Neier 10:51, 18 June 2007 (UTC)


 * Someone had posted an eye chart which was a joke: it asked the patient for a date. Japanese also use C-charts. See both at the link from Oda Mari's post at User talk:Fg2. Fg2 10:54, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

Technical question
Not Wikipedia related, but does anyone know with reasonable certainty whether UTF-8 is a widely acceptable email encoding in Japan (yet)? Most email has been iso-2022-jp for quite some time, but if someone sends UTF-8 do nearly all email clients render it properly? If anyone who knows anything about this is willing to talk with me about it, I'd appreciate it. Thanks. -- Rick Block (talk) 04:22, 15 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Sounds like a good question to post on the Talk page of the Japanese Wikipedia article on e-mail 電子メール Fg2 04:38, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Japan: Featured article candidate
The article Japan has been double-nominated for featured-article status. Its March 10 nomination was closed and the article not promoted, but it was renominated on the same day and many objections have been remedied. Please visit Featured article candidates/Japan and express your views on this article. Fg2 04:02, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Dissolved municipality cats
There has been some discussion about the categorization of dissolved towns, etc. Currently, most are still categorized in the Towns in XYZ Prefecture category along with current towns, and also in the omnibus. A proposal has been made to split that latter category, and create one new category per prefecture to hold all types of dissolved municipalities (no distinction between a dissolved village or dissolved town). Talk:List of mergers and dissolutions of municipalities in Japan is where the discussion started and has a few more details, but, this page has a wider audience. Are there any other suggestions? Neier 04:15, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Category:Images of Japanese people
FYI: You can now tag some of your images with Category:Images of Japanese people -- a subcategory of Category:Images of Japan and Category:Images by subject (which seems to be under construction and could certainly use some more Japanese subcategories). &mdash; Komusou talk @ 15:55, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

possible stealth vandal: asian characters expert
i don't know where else to go with this, so i'm posting here for assistance and/or direction:

has been making questionable edits to articles using asian characters. once such edit was made to the article Double Fifth, which i know to be incorrect, and quite possibly vandalism. i've reverted the changes on that page, but if there's someone who can and check up this dude it would be great. --emerson7 | Talk 01:41, 18 June 2007 (UTC)


 * Many of the edits deal with links to the Chinese-language Wikipedia. I don't read Chinese, so you might get more information if you can find a similar notice board or Wikipedia project page for China- or Chinese-language-related topics and ask there. But the edits I saw appeared valid. The one you saw might have been erroneous. Or vandalism. Either way, readers of Chinese might be your best help. Fg2 10:19, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

硫黄島
According to the NHK TV News today, the name of the island is now officially changed into Iwo shima tō, not Iwo jima anymore, by ex-islanders claim. --Oda Mari 14:08, 18 June 2007 (UTC) http://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/2007/06/18/d20070618000121.html http://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/2007/06/19/k20070618000121.html --Oda Mari 14:19, 18 June 2007 (UTC) 粗忽でごめん. 最近、謝ってばかり. I blame it on the heat.--Oda Mari 18:02, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
 * That would be Iōtō (いおうとう). It appears that this was the common usage before the war, but the Americans picked up on the Iōjima reading used by the Japanese Navy and that name stuck.  It appears that the article on Iwo Jima already notes the two readings.  I suppose we could mention that Iōtō is the official reading, but otherwise the facts appear correct. CES 14:27, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
 * ドンマイ！ Thanks for bringing this up, I didn't know that it was originally Iōtō to begin with. CES 21:48, 18 June 2007 (UTC)