I don’t believe that anyone could feel the way i do about this deal

English narration today at local broadcast company TSS 🎙️ So grateful to the TSS Archive Project for putting out English subbed and dubbed content about Hiroshima, hibakusha, and peace efforts 🔗 www.tss-tv.co.jp/web/archive_...

Great article on translation via the plagiarism algorithm, but especially this line: "An AI translation is fluff, it is slop and it is void." I need to put this on cards to hand out to Japanese publishing execs.

Good morning Tokyo. This little bird would like to remind you that Friday is a holiday.

Overheard in a coffee shop: “Let’s be alone, together” Ah, the human condition

Kinda in love with these tech logos redesigned with a 1980s look by Kostya Petrenko (@kxdgraphics on Instagram). He's got a bunch more, too: www.instagram.com/kxdgraphics/

Sakura season soon come🌸 gethiroshima.com/features/han...

This, absolutely. So many people think that translation is "just replacing words", but there's so much more to it. A translator translates meaning, not just words. AI doesn't understand meaning, it only recognises words.

Why pay for professional translation if you can get whatever this is for free...

mejiro with plums

In Long Beach promoting Hiroshima at the 2026 Travel and Adventure Show!

I am speechless and angry and unable to comprehend, so here are some cherry blossoms for it is all I can offer

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

What the actual fuck

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Hold On Tight

Fantastic thread that I want to scream from every rooftop

You wouldn’t translate a car’s ハンドル as “handle”. You wouldn’t translate a ハイタッチ as “high touch”. So why would you translate 「」 as “”? True facts: 99% of the time, you shouldn’t, and here’s why. Translation theory thread!🧵👇

Ume blossom in the snow. Shukkeien Garden, Hiroshima. February 8, 2026

In all my 18 years of living here, I have never seen so much snow in downtown Hiroshima City ❄️ It reminds of the nor’easters in Maryland that would swoop in and drop two or three feet of snow and cancel school for two weeks

Translator friends: Does anyone have any good resources for teaching newbie translators more about the importance of creative writing skills in general, and character voice in particular? And/or simple online courses they can take for this? I'm not a great teacher for this rn, so any help welcome! 🙏

I’m trying to collect a list for my college students of what working artists wish they had done and/or knew before post-grad or first year of really working as a freelancer or in-house artist If you feel like passing that on here I would love to see it and share with them later this year!

Today, I bought plates as a wedding gift for a dear friend. The shop owner knows me and not only gave me a discount for no reason, but also packed up all the plates so I could ship them. It’s nice to be reminded that kindness exists.

Heartbroken 💔

Ritual archery on Miyajima tomorrow (Jan 20) 🏹⛩️ gethiroshima.com/event/momote...

JLPP posted their translation competition for 2026. Submission window is in May. www.jlpp.go.jp/competition1...

One of the exciting points of Hiroshima KAGURA performances is the special effects & lightning fast costume & mask changes as explained by KAGURA insider Rachel Nicholson @hiroshimafoodsnob.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/u6ylV...

Fabulous talk last night about Hiroshima KAGURA cultural, creative & fun performing art in Hiroshima with insider Rachel Nicholson @hiroshimafoodsnob.bsky.social KAGURA performances every Wed night w English subtitles from April again #mustsee #japan Replays here: www.youtube.com/live/RtBo7iH...

Needed something light to make me chuckle today; thank you, Merriam-Webster

If you read a translated book, or poem, or anything, and the words move you or the prose excites you: remember the translator. Because those words are theirs. The original text is the plan. It lays out the structure and the goal, but the translator makes the choices that get you there.

Photography buffs will not want to miss this retrospective exhibition of work by pioneering photographer Ihei Kimura at the Hiroshima Prefectural Art Museum📷 gethiroshima.com/event/ihei-k...

Finally reading this great essay on what translators do and what language is! This part in particular hit home for me.

奈良まで向かいに行きたくるほどかわいすぎるアデリーくん、、！

Been awhile since we had a shakey-shake here in Hiroshima and I did not care for it

BREAKING: A magnitude 6.2 earthquake, measuring a strong 5 on Japan’s seismic intensity scale, struck Shimane Prefecture at 10:18 a.m. on Tuesday. There was no threat of a tsunami.

It is UNREASONABLE how good the food at Da Daico is, like it’s almost maddening to know that I can’t replicate it and you know what? I wouldn’t want to because his would still be better. Details in alt.

今年のカレンダーは @nankyoku-post.bsky.social さんの「世界の動物たちの国際デー」をテーマにしたカレンダー🗓️ ペンギンバザールをきっかけに、昨年から南極ポストさんの絵のタッチや世界観に惚れ込んで、元々好きだったペンギンがより好きになった🐧

Finished up my first translation of the new year and now finally getting to watch the Marvelous Ms. Maisel

Happy new year and 開けましておめでとうございます🎍Annual visit to local shrines, had some mochi, and a hōjicha latte. Also, first 大吉 in years!

2026🎠🎍

Annual end of the year pilgrimage to all my favorite places is progressing nicely (details in alt)

Last film (seen in a theater anyway) of 2025 did not disappoint: revenge, a kickin’ soundtrack, drama, awesome costumes, a little Knights Templar, and a satisfying conclusion

Time for the last #Japanese slang review of 2025! Click the link below to learn about... 微浮気 今国民が削減すべきと感じているのは議員の定数ではなく ぬるぽ (ガッ) ジバ オンカジ チャッピー アウトオブ眼中 思い出補正 見なよ…オレの司を グエー死んだンゴ wesleycrobertson.wordpress.com/2025/12/31/j...

I used to manage wine programs for movie theaters and I am in the extremely unique position to say with professional certainty that the answer here is a crisp Albariño.

That being said, Sinners, Substance, and One Battle After Another also blew my socks off. Such a good dang year for films.

Still the probably the best film I saw all year (meaning it resonating with me most). Saw it four times in theaters and debating a subscription to Mubi so I can watch it whenever I want

Finally saw all three hours of Kokuhō and like…yes, it was very prettily shot, but like, I’m not sure what the message was supposed to be? Main character made all kinds of hurtful choices and still got to be declared a living national treasure, and I dunno, my sense of justice didn’t like that.