pomme homme
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- 18 May 2014
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I'm posting this in the hope that someone on this forum can help me. But please allow me to explain my somewhat convoluted route to this forum and the nature of my request!
In the course of research for an article I'm hoping to write, I have been referred to a file of documents - from a Japanese consular source and now with JACAR - which may be relevant to that. However these documents were created in 1936 and a Japanese speaking, French friend, who I asked for help in translating the documents, told me that she cannot comprehend them because the majority are written in what she described as 'bad manuscript' and 'old Japanese' (which, she said, uses traditional Chinese characters). Thus I sought help from a Chinese speaking, English friend. He told me that he couldn't help because he was educated in the PRC which uses simplified modern characters nowadays. However he continued to say that in Taiwan and Hong Kong, traditional Chinese characters are still taught and used and so someone living or having been educated in either place should be able to comprehend the documents (at least to the extent of providing a general translation giving the gist of their content - which is all I really need at this stage). Thus I posted my request for help on Taiwanese and Hong Kong forums, only to be told that an educated, native Japanese speaker should have little difficulty in reading and translating the characters and thus the documents. Which is why, after a lengthy journey trough Europe and Asia, I've arrived here.
My research is into the life and death of a young Japanese pilot who, in 1936, was participating in the International Long Distance Flight, one of the aviation events which were part of the 1936 Berlin Olympics. In the course of that his aeroplane crashed, causing him injuries of which subsequently he died. The file of documents contains, I believe, mainly consular exchanges, between Japanese embassies in Europe and Tokyo. Assuming that I have been advised correctly, as to an educated, native Japanese speaker being able to comprehend the characters used in the documents and thus the documents themselves (there are about thirty pages), if such a person is reading this and feels willing and able to help me with a general translation of the documents - providing the gist of them, so that I can determine if they are relevant and, if so, which and to what extent (enabling me to focus upon obtaining a translation into English of these alone) - I shall be extremely grateful to that person.
May I offer my thanks in anticipation of someone on this forum being able to help me.
pomme homme
In the course of research for an article I'm hoping to write, I have been referred to a file of documents - from a Japanese consular source and now with JACAR - which may be relevant to that. However these documents were created in 1936 and a Japanese speaking, French friend, who I asked for help in translating the documents, told me that she cannot comprehend them because the majority are written in what she described as 'bad manuscript' and 'old Japanese' (which, she said, uses traditional Chinese characters). Thus I sought help from a Chinese speaking, English friend. He told me that he couldn't help because he was educated in the PRC which uses simplified modern characters nowadays. However he continued to say that in Taiwan and Hong Kong, traditional Chinese characters are still taught and used and so someone living or having been educated in either place should be able to comprehend the documents (at least to the extent of providing a general translation giving the gist of their content - which is all I really need at this stage). Thus I posted my request for help on Taiwanese and Hong Kong forums, only to be told that an educated, native Japanese speaker should have little difficulty in reading and translating the characters and thus the documents. Which is why, after a lengthy journey trough Europe and Asia, I've arrived here.
My research is into the life and death of a young Japanese pilot who, in 1936, was participating in the International Long Distance Flight, one of the aviation events which were part of the 1936 Berlin Olympics. In the course of that his aeroplane crashed, causing him injuries of which subsequently he died. The file of documents contains, I believe, mainly consular exchanges, between Japanese embassies in Europe and Tokyo. Assuming that I have been advised correctly, as to an educated, native Japanese speaker being able to comprehend the characters used in the documents and thus the documents themselves (there are about thirty pages), if such a person is reading this and feels willing and able to help me with a general translation of the documents - providing the gist of them, so that I can determine if they are relevant and, if so, which and to what extent (enabling me to focus upon obtaining a translation into English of these alone) - I shall be extremely grateful to that person.
May I offer my thanks in anticipation of someone on this forum being able to help me.
pomme homme
