January 16, 2003
The Bill of Rights... in Japanese
Thanks to Geeks with Guns for a pointer to the Jews For the Preservation of Firearms Ownership archival of several translated versions of America's Bill of Rights. I'm particularly pleased with what I can read of the Japanese version. The wording of the 2nd Amendment is a very close fit to that of the original.
10 years of Japanese study are paying off for me; speaking of which, looks like I need to go do the homework for that class... that's a major reason you're not seeing much blogging from me the last couple of weeks, since I'm back studying intermediate Mandarin and advanced Japanese.
The JPFO has a simplified character Chinese version of the Bill of Rights up on the site. Anyone care to take a crack at a traditional character version for the Taiwan and Hong Kong markets?
