"Mainichi Daily News, the Mainichi Newspapers' English language website, contained a corner called WaiWai that attracted criticism for such things as being too vulgar and debauching Japan by sending around the world information that could be misunderstood. In the wake of this criticism, we decided to end this corner."
(Only good-news items about kimono dressing and cherry blossom from now on.)
"While explaining the process in both Japanese and English and apologizing, the Mainichi is poised to severely punish the head of the Digital Media Division, which is responsible for overseeing the site, the manager responsible for the corner and the editor involved with the stories."
(Tickets for the public seppuku go on salenext week...)
-- Jim Breen http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/ Clayton School of Information Technology, Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia ジム・ブリーン@モナシュ大学
> "Mainichi Daily News, the Mainichi Newspapers' English language website, > contained a corner called WaiWai that attracted criticism for such > things as being too vulgar and debauching Japan by sending around the > world information that could be misunderstood. In the wake of this > criticism, we decided to end this corner."
> (Only good-news items about kimono dressing and cherry blossom from > now on.)
> "While explaining the process in both Japanese and English and > apologizing, the Mainichi is poised to severely punish the head of the > Digital Media Division, which is responsible for overseeing the site, > the manager responsible for the corner and the editor involved with the > stories."
> (Tickets for the public seppuku go on salenext week...)
> -- > Jim Breen http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/ > Clayton School of Information Technology, > Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia > ジム・ブリーン@モナシュ大学
Hi,
Let 'em do their worst. The Mainichi newspaper sucks, not only on that corner but also almost all other columns in Japanese. My family had been subscribing only that newspaper for very long time because my grand father strongly did not allow for our family subscribing other news papers. The reason why we should read the Mainichi was that the paper is the very paper which our Emperor was reading also. The Mainichi had changed. The headquarters building is located just across the moat of the Imperial Palace but some of the corres of that company is against the Emperor system, a few years ago, a Korean-Japanese corres acted extremely rude to the Emperor family. Sad but true story.
> "Mainichi Daily News, the Mainichi Newspapers' English language website, > contained a corner called WaiWai that attracted criticism for such > things as being too vulgar and debauching Japan by sending around the > world information that could be misunderstood. In the wake of this > criticism, we decided to end this corner."
> (Only good-news items about kimono dressing and cherry blossom from > now on.)
I liked the comments on Japan Today: the only reason for ever reading Mainichi on-line just went away.
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In article <72bd0d6e-d9d5-41c9-907d-ebfe38bdc...@s33g2000pri.googlegroups.com>,
japanolo...@gmail.com wrote: >The Mainichi had changed. The headquarters building >is located just across the moat of the Imperial Palace but >some of the corres of that company is against the Emperor >system, a few years ago, a Korean-Japanese corres acted >extremely rude to the Emperor family. Sad but true story.
I wonder what he did? Fail to use the correct version of keigo?
In sci.lang.japan Jim Breen <jimbr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> (Only good-news items about kimono dressing and cherry blossom from > now on.) > (Tickets for the public seppuku go on salenext week...)
It was surprising to me that something as blatantly sleazy as WaiWai was being published on the Mainichi news site in English & I did wonder how long it was going to last.
On Jun 25, 3:42 pm, benkasminbull...@gmail.com (Ben Bullock) wrote:
> In sci.lang.japan Jim Breen <jimbr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > (Only good-news items about kimono dressing and cherry blossom from > > now on.) > > (Tickets for the public seppuku go on salenext week...)
> It was surprising to me that something as blatantly sleazy as WaiWai > was being published on the Mainichi news site in English & I did > wonder how long it was going to last.
It was one of the few items on the website attracting any traffic. No wonder it lasted a while.
I don't think its so unusual. Compare the main page of most broadsheets, with the corresponding frontpage of their website. The website version invariably has a somewhat tabloid skew.
On Jun 25, 2:48 am, Declan Murphy <declan_mur...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I don't think its so unusual. Compare the main page of most > broadsheets, with the corresponding frontpage of their website. The > website version invariably has a somewhat tabloid skew.
Are you implying that Japanese housewives aren't prostituting on the side? Not only did my one reason to read Mainichi go away, I also now lost one reason to go to Japan.
Wonder if Ryan O'Connell is now unemployed; had some good email correspondence with him a few years back. Seemed like a nice guy.
> I don't think its so unusual. Compare the main page of most > broadsheets, with the corresponding frontpage of their website. The > website version invariably has a somewhat tabloid skew. >Are you implying that Japanese housewives aren't prostituting on the >side? Not only did my one reason to read Mainichi go away, I also now >lost one reason to go to Japan.
>Wonder if Ryan O'Connell is now unemployed; had some good email >correspondence with him a few years back. Seemed like a nice guy.
>John W.
I found it pretty wacked and did not read it.
OTOH they have a right to say what they want and we have the right to read or not to read.
On Jun 25, 12:30 am, pellicleund...@hotmail.com (obakesan) wrote:
> Hi
> In article > <72bd0d6e-d9d5-41c9-907d-ebfe38bdc...@s33g2000pri.googlegroups.com>,
> japanolo...@gmail.com wrote: > >The Mainichi had changed. The headquarters building > >is located just across the moat of the Imperial Palace but > >some of the corres of that company is against the Emperor > >system, a few years ago, a Korean-Japanese corres acted > >extremely rude to the Emperor family. Sad but true story.
> I wonder what he did? Fail to use the correct version of keigo?
Maybe he asked one of those questions about history that I bet the Emperor doesn't like having to answer.
Tony Bryant (former poster here) said an interesting thing on TJP:
"Well, admission time.
When I was at the Mainichi, I was one of the two people responsible for the intro of WAI WAI to the paper. Of course, the Wai Wai was structurally very different and we were much more selective in content back in 1991. Basically, we took about half a dozen stories, condensed each one into one paragraph, and had a big section of topical Japanese newspaper and weekly mag comics with translation and cultural notes, etc. Basically, the Wai Wai page was "this is this week in Japanese pop culture."
Apparently, it's changed somewhat since Adam and I worked on WaiWai."
-- Jim Breen http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/ Clayton School of Information Technology, Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia ジム・ブリーン@モナシュ大学
> Tony Bryant (former poster here) said an interesting thing > on TJP:
> "Well, admission time.
> When I was at the Mainichi, I was one of the two people responsible for > the intro of WAI WAI to the paper. Of course, the Wai Wai was > structurally very different and we were much more selective in content > back in 1991. Basically, we took about half a dozen stories, condensed > each one into one paragraph, and had a big section of topical Japanese > newspaper and weekly mag comics with translation and cultural notes, > etc. Basically, the Wai Wai page was "this is this week in Japanese pop > culture."
> Apparently, it's changed somewhat since Adam and I worked on WaiWai."
> -- > Jim Breen http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/ > Clayton School of Information Technology, > Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia > ジム・ブリーン@モナシュ大学