Archive for December, 2009

Bullet Train Timetables Now Viewable in Google Maps

Monday, December 7th, 2009

Google Japan announced on their blog that bullet train timetables are now viewable from within Google Maps. I thought this was an interesting announcement so I decided to translate it into English. The original blog post can be found here: http://googlejapan.blogspot.com/2009/12/google_04.html. Bullet Train Timetables Now Viewable in Google Maps December 4th, 2009 Posted ...

Google Japanese Input Annoucement

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

Google announced and released their own Japanese input method software (often called an IME). This created quite a buzz on Twitter and I personally am pretty excited about it so I decided to translate the announcement into English. I'm not a professional translator (not even close) but tried to ...