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Strange English signs in China and Japan really hate vegetables, sometimes threaten to kill you

Casey Baseel

We’ve talked before about some of the reasons why bizarre English signage pops up in Asia. One of the most common causes is a fundamental difference in the way sentences are structured between English and other languages. Automated translations programs, which aren’t nearly as well sorted out as many monolingual users believe, are also among the usual suspects.

That said, looking at a flawed translation is sort of like performing an autopsy, in that sometimes there’s a limit in what it can tell you. Just like the medical examiner might say, “Well, all the baby spiders hatching inside the subject’s eyeball definitely killed him, but I’ve got no idea how the eggs got in there,” there are times like these when we look at some garbled English, and, just like we can’t stifle our chuckles, we can’t imagine why the translation went flying off the rails, or if it was even on them to begin with.

54.5 Percent of Japanese husbands who say they do at least one hour of housework on their days off, according to a survey by watchmaker Citizen Holdings

$8.6 billion Estimated amount Boeing will pay Tokyo-based Toray Industries to supply carbon fiber for its 777X and 787 Dreamliner passenger jets

68.4 Percent of Japanese college seniors who have secured employment offers—the fourth consecutive year the figure has risen—according to government reports

BE AFRAID: BE VERY AFRAID

• Members of a government advisory panel have endorsed a plan to shift the focus of Japan’s space program from “social infrastructure” to “security.”
• Lawyers for a 53-year-old graphic designer accused of producing illustrations depicting child pornography contend that “CG images are original creations and [thus] not illegal.”
• Scientists at Kyoto University say they’ve found a Japanese macaque suffering from a disease called progeria, which causes premature aging. The monkey is the first non-human primate to have been identified with the illness.
• A Tokyo-based travel company that also specializes in studio photography is urging senior citizens to “prepare portraits for their funerals while they are still full of energy.”

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Tokyo retains world gourmet crown, with most Michelin starred restaurants

REUTERS

Tokyo kept its crown as the Michelin guide’s gourmet capital with the most starred restaurants for an eight straight year, in the first guide released since UNESCO listed “washoku” (traditional Japanese cuisine) as an “intangible cultural heritage.”

Among the establishments that gained three-star ratings in the 2015 Michelin guide to Tokyo, which went on sale Friday, was one that specializes in fugu, the poisonous blowfish, and a traditional eatery whose chef at first thought his win was a joke.

The guide, which used to include the neighboring city of Yokohama and the coastal Shonan area, was limited to Tokyo this year to allow a wider listing of Japanese food in the Bib Gourmand section, which emphasizes cheaper restaurants, Michelin said.