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Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 03-03-2004, 01:47 PM:

Thought some of you would get a kick out of this ad for the Japan Maritime Self Defense Force, currently running 30 times a day on the Jumbotrons in Tokyo's Shibuya district:

http://www.jda.go.jp/JMSDF/event/cm_p/index.html

Would like to have been in on the meeting when the ad agency pitched this. In the navy... [Smile]

[ 03-03-2004, 03:15 PM: Message edited by: Paul Mayer ]

Posted by Carl Martin (Member # 1146) on 03-03-2004, 04:08 PM:

that's it. i'm joining up.

carl

Posted by Adam Martin (Member # 641) on 03-03-2004, 06:22 PM:

You may need your Windows install disc handy if you choose to install the language pack for that page.

Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 03-03-2004, 06:47 PM:

I guess I'm spoiled these days--Windows XP Pro and its versions of Office and IE include Japanese capability (Unicode is a good thing for us double-byte character set users). Shouldn't need it if one only wants to look at the 15 second spot, which plays automatically. Yeah, the rest of the page will display as ASCII garbage, but does it matter if one doesn't read Japanese?

Posted by Daryl C. W. O'Shea (Member # 1303) on 03-03-2004, 06:56 PM:

Why not just download the Japanese language pack... it's small.

Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 03-03-2004, 07:04 PM:

I thought it was an ad for the French Navy with Asian actors...too "swishy". [Razz]

>>> Phil

Posted by Adam Martin (Member # 641) on 03-03-2004, 08:58 PM:

I *did* download it (install on demand). And then XP Pro said it needed the install disc.

Posted by Daryl C. W. O'Shea (Member # 1303) on 03-03-2004, 10:13 PM:

Well there's your problem. Stop using XP!

Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 03-03-2004, 10:54 PM:

Ummm... OR get a legit version, not a bootleg...

>>> Phil

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 03-04-2004, 01:02 AM:

Japanese works natively in OS X. See?:

Posted by Daryl C. W. O'Shea (Member # 1303) on 03-04-2004, 01:31 AM:

Bloatware!

Posted by Michael Schaffer (Member # 1204) on 03-04-2004, 03:51 AM:

Paul, what does the announcer say at the end? My Japanese is getting really rusty.

Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 03-04-2004, 12:41 PM:

That's OK Michael, my Japanese is already rusty.

The announcer's last line is (I think) "Kaijou Jieitai" or Maritime Self Defense Force. The two previous short lines I can't make out at all (not enough listening skill or vocabulary yet, if I could make out the words I could look them up) [Frown]

Will have to run this ad by one of my teachers to see.

Posted by Rick Long (Member # 213) on 03-06-2004, 01:48 AM:

She was only an admiral's daughter, but she loved navel encounters with a great loss of seamen.