JREF re-recycled by Japan Today

[thomas]

Japan Today - a news source I usually visit in case of extreme boredom in order to skim through the mind-boggling comments of frustrated English teachers - recycled a warmed-over thread ("Changes to your lifestyle since living in Japan") right here from the forum, which has been translated by Madame Riri, a Japanese blogger. Not only do they seem to be running out of original topics, they did not even have the decency of quoting the original source.

環境が変われば生活も変わる。郷に入れば郷に従えという諺がありますが、海外に住む人は自分でも気が付かないうちに自然とその環境に合わせるように変わっていきます。それでは日本に住む外国人たちは日本生活でどんなところが変化するのでしょうか？日本好き外国人の集まるサイトJAPANREFERENCEより、『日本生活で変化したライフスタイル（Changes to your lifestyle since living in Japan）』を翻訳しました。

It is quite amazing to see how many Japanese bloggers refer to our threads, especially when blogging about foreigners' reflections on Japan. I found Japan Today's masterpiece courtesy of A Fish Out of Water.

 

[Mike Cash]

This is bizarre. It wasn't even a particularly interesting thread.

Perhaps most odd, though, is that it generated far more commentary elsewhere than we had in the original thread itself.