1. Click Edit > CSS

2. Add Meiryo (or the font of your choice) as the default paragraph font:

3. Highlight the text you would like to display as Meiryo and click "Normal Paragraph Text":

That is all you need to do. Once the default paragraph font is Meiryo, your document text will adopt it. You won't need to keep highlighting text and changing it to the normal paragraph font as once it is set, it stays that way until you change it to something else. You can also freely adjust the font size and the style will be maintained. Since Meiryo is a Microsoft Windows font, these instructions are specific to Windows but I'm sure they apply to Mac OS and Linux as well. You would just need to indicate the appropriate font in step two. Below are before and after shots of a sample document I created to show what a difference a nice Japanese font makes in Google Docs.

Before Customizing The Style Sheet:

After Customizing The Style Sheet:

I hope you've found this tip helpful. Thanks for reading.

Before the examples, I'd like to point out that I don't know how useful of a word なう is to the average student of Japanese. It is not something you would want to use in conversation and probably not something you would want to use in written Japanese either. I think the biggest value is simply knowing that it exists and being aware that it is very commonly used in Twitter. As I write this it is about 1:30 PM in Japan and I'm seeing about one use of なう per second. I used Twitter search to get this number.

The most common two uses I see of なう are to indicate where a person is or what a person is doing. Here are some actual examples from Twitter users.

Where A Person Is
@llpandall: 東京なう http://f.hatena.ne.jp/twitter2/20091116133300
"At Tokyo now."

@bonjin_p 新宿東口なう
"At Shinjuku east entrance now."

@kaduki_tomo 大学なう -in Lab-
"At college in the lab now."

@ko_no_tori 急にカレーが食いたくなったのでC&Cなう (Update Dec 6, 2009: I disabled the link. Looks like the user cancelled their Twitter account.)
"Suddenly got hungry for curry so I'm at C&C now." (Editor note: Looked up C&C, it's a curry shop http://www.res-keio.co.jp/c_and_c/)

What A Person Is Doing
@mofuku アキバのジョナサンで一人ランチなう。
"Having lunch by myself at Jonathan's in Akiba (Akihabara) now."

@srbook アリバイづくりなう
"Coming up with an alibi now." (Editor note: Ha ha..)

@seekingking ツイッター見てるなう
"Looking at Twitter now."

@maloreno うどん来た。昼飯なう。
"The udon arrived. Having lunch now."

These are just a few examples that I was able to collect very rapidly using Twitter search. It is pretty fun watching the uses of it fly by. Just as the word "now" is very flexible in English, it is also very flexible in Japanese. Where a person is or what they are doing are obviously not the only uses, just the ones I see most commonly.

Twitter is a valuable tool for studying everyday Japanese usage and for learning about the daily lives of Japanese people. I hope this explanation of なう will help further your studies.

In this scene, Tsuyoshi's friend Kane is giving the family tips on lowering monthly expenses. Dialog is read from right to left.

Japanese:
あとこの冷蔵庫かなり古いヤツよね
オレが生まれた時からあるんじゃないかな
今の冷蔵庫は節電タイプがあるから長い目で見たら買い換えた方が電気代が得ね

Romaji:
Ato kono reizouko kanari furui yatsu yo ne.
Ore ga umareta toki kara arun jya nai kana.
Ima no reizouko wa setsuden taipu ga aru kara nagai me de mitara kaikaeta hou ga denki-dai ga toku ne.

Vocabulary Listing (definitions are contextual)
あと - after; later
この - this
冷蔵庫「れいぞうこ」- refrigerator
かなり - fairly; pretty
古い「ふるい」- old
ヤツ - thing (katakana indicates emphasis)
よ - adds exclamation; tone of criticism
ね - right?

オレ - male informal "I"
が - subject marker
生まれた「うまれた」- was born (dictionary form: 生まれる)
時「とき」- time (生まれた時 "the time I was born")
から - from
ある - exist
ん - abbreviation of のだ - indicates an explanation
じゃない casual form of ではありません - "did not"
かな - particle combination - "I think"

今の「いまの」- today's; modern
冷蔵庫「れいぞうこ」- refrigerator
は - topic marker
節電「せつでん」- conservation of electricity
タイプ - type
が - subject marker
ある - exist
から - because (therefore)
長い目で見たら「ながいめでみたら」- if you look at it long term (dictionary form: 長い目で見る)
買い換えた「かいかえた」- if you purchase a replacement (dictionary form: 買い換える)
方が「ほうが」- In this context X 方が Y indicates "doing X will result in Y which is better than Z" where X is buying a new, energy-efficient refrigerator and Y is a lower electric bill. Z, keeping the old refrigerator, is implied.
電気代「でんきだい」- electric utility expense
が - subject marker
得「とく」- profitable (more economical)
ね - right?; don't you think?

Sources
This clip is from page thirteen of book four of Nagamatsu Kiyoshi's (永松潔) Tsuyoshi Motto Shikari Shinasai (ツヨシもっとしっかりしなさい) and was published in March 1994 by Kodansha.

Links
Tsuyoshi Motto Shikari Shinasai on Wikipedia Japan
Nagamatsu Kiyoshi's Wikipedia Japan page
Kodansha's Home Page

Japanese:
...この道昨日とは何かが違うような
何だろうこの違和感...

Romaji:
...kono michi kinou to wa nani ka ga chigau youna
nan darou kono iwakan...

Vocabulary Listing
この - this
道 「みち」- road
昨日「きのう」- yesterday
とは - compared with yesterday
何か「なにか」- something
が - subject marker (particle)
違う「ちがう」- differ; vary
ような - like
何だろう「なんだろう」- what is it
この - this
違和感「いわかん」- feeling of being out of place

Translation Notes
Toripan is an interesting manga series by author Torino Nanko (とりのなん子). It won first prize in the 17th Manga Open contest and was first serialized in Morning in issue number 21 of 2005. The primary themes are everyday life and nature mixed with a large dose of comedy. Toripan is known for featuring a wide variety of birds. More than 40 species are listed on its Wikipedia page.

Notice in the above clip that the storage unit in the scene is upside down. They had been bickering back and forth about how the previous night's wind had been strong but not strong enough to cause any damage.

Sources
This manga clip was scanned from the November 1st, 2007 issue of Morning モーニング. It is episode number 46. The image appears on page 133.

Links
モーニング　Morning web site.
Morning's Toripan home page.
Wikipedia Japan article about Toripan.
Wikipedia Japan article about Toripan author Torino Nanko.

Japanese:
社長今日の夕食はグルジア料理です （神奈川恵子）
食べることばっかりだなキミは （島耕作）

Romanized:
Shachou kyou no yuushoku wa gurujia ryouri desu. (Kanagawa Keiko)
Taberu koto bakkari dana kimi wa. (Shima Kosaku)

Participants Names:
神奈川恵子「かながわけいこ」Kanagawa Keiko [right]
島耕作「しまこうさく」Shima Kosaku [left]
* Last name followed by first name.

Vocabulary Listing:
社長「しゃちょう」shachou - company president
今日「きょう」kyou - today
夕食「ゆうしょく」yuushoku - dinner
グルジア gurujia - Georgia (the country)
料理「りょうり」ryouri - cooking; cuisine
食べる「たべる」taberu - verb "to eat"
こと koto - things; matters
ばかり bakari - only; nothing but (ばっかり bakkari is a colloquial form, see below)

Kana And Grammar Points:
- The の in 今日の夕食 is possessive, similar to an apostrophe s in English. It indicates "today's dinner."
- グルジア料理 - You would say "Georgian cuisine" in English. Initially I thought this was a typo and that they had meant "Greek cuisine" or ギリシャ料理 but comments convinced me it's correct as グルジア料理.
- ことばかり koto bakari - This may be the most useful portion of the dialog for learners of Japanese as this is a pattern that can be applied in many situations. This phrase usually follows the dictionary form of a verb and basically means "only doing <verb>" or "always doing <verb>" or in this scene's case "only thinking/talking about <verb>". As "eat" is the verb, Kosaku is basically saying "All you think about is eating." or "You are always talking about eating."
- Notice that in the manga, ばかり bakari is written as ばっかり bakkari. The second form is a colloquial or "relaxed" form. Another variation of ばかり is ばっか.
- だな dana - casual form of ですね "desu ne".
- キミ kimi - this is a casual way to say "you" and is written in katakana for emphasis. Since Keiko is Kosaku's secretary, he would naturally speak to her in a casual manner. As he is her superior, she refers to him as "shachou" which is polite.
* I'm leaving out the basic particles は, です and ね as I assume most students have a firm understanding of them already.

Translation Notes:
First a disclaimer, I am not a professional translator, I read Japanese for fun. I am posting this here as a way to share my interest in Japanese and manga, so please enjoy it and don't take it too seriously.

When it comes to translating, I believe there are two basic approaches - the first is more literal, the second is more artistic. I once heard the second referred to as something like "culturlation". I don't remember the exact term but the point is that it is okay to change the literal words to more closely match the natural way something would be said in the target culture. I believe this is particularly important in Japanese due to wide grammar and cultural differences. So my English translation is not 100% literal but if it were, native English speakers would probably not enjoy it. For example, I could have said something like this for Keiko's line:

Company president, today's dinner is Georgia cooking.

It would have been more literally accurate but it also sounds awkward. Nobody addresses their boss as "company president" in the USA. In fact, a secretary would probably refer to her boss as "Mr. Shima" or simply "Kosaku" if she knew him well enough. I chose "boss" because I thought it sounded the most natural in this situation. I guess this is where the "art" of translation comes in and it is definitely the part of translation I find most appealing. Where do we draw that line between literally correct and culturally correct? A translator that really made me aware of this is Alfred Birnbaum. He is one of the primary translators of Haruki Murakami's books. If you ever get a chance to read one, I'm sure you will thoroughly enjoy it and not have any idea that the original author is a non-native English speaker. Birnbaum is one of the best translation "artists" I know of. One of my favorite Murakami books is Hard-Boiled Wonderland And The End Of The World.

Source Of Material:
I scanned the image myself from a personal copy of the weekly magazine Morning モーニング. It appears in the 29th issue of 2009, dated July 2nd. Morning is published every Thursday in Japan by Kodansha and is a collection of approximately 25-30 single-episode manga targeted towards young adults. I do not have explicit permission from the publisher to use this scan but it is my understanding that I am covered by fair use law. The particular manga the above scene is from is called "President Shima Kosaku" 社長島耕作「しゃちょうしまこうさく」and appears on page 54. The author of President Shima Kosaku is Hiroshi Kenshi 弘兼 憲史「ひろかね けんし」. For more information, please refer to the following links:

講談社　Kodansha
モーニング　Morning
島耕作　Shima Kosaku
弘兼 憲史 Hiroshi Kenshi

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