[sustran] Carsharing in Japan - but for the truly curious only

[eric.britton at ecoplan.org]

Monday, August 16, 2004, Paris, France, Europe

 

Okay, carsharing in Japan.  How much do you now about it?  Even a bit
curious?  How is your Japanese? Not so good.  Hmm.  Well, try this.

 

1.	Go to  <mailto:s-ichimaru at ecomo.or.jp> ecomo.or.jp (The EcoMo
Foundation in Tokyo, Shimpei Ichimaru, Manager)
2.	Notice that it is in Japanese and start to give up
3.	Instead have the bright idea of calling up
http://babelfish.altavista.com/ and (a) pop
<mailto:s-ichimaru at ecomo.or.jp> ecomo.or.jp into the Translate Page
slot, and (b) tell Systran that you want to go from Japanese to English
4.	Note the fine abundance of programs that EcoMo is involved with
(BTW, Systran translates only text not images of course).
5.	Click into "
<http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_pagecontent?lp=ja_en&url
=http%3a%2f%2fwww.ecomo.or.jp%2ftopix%2fjouhounet02.html> Car sharing
case summary of entire country was published. (6/30) " and work your way
down the image menu in the center - the second of which tells us about
nine ongoing projects.
6.	You can then click through to find links in some of these cases,
as well as through the rest of the menu.

 

Wow. You now know a whole lot more about carsharing in Japan than you
did before.  And it cost you nothing.

 

Is there a lesson in this?

 

;-)

 

 

Eric Britton

 

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