another reason to learn Japanese
That's also amusing, EIJIRO is the most comprehensive computer Japanese to English dictionary.
=> The story behind Eijiro: the most popular Japanese/English dictionary on the net | Japan: Stippy
Eiji means next son, the reason why Eijiro is a very common boy's name in Japan.
Hierarchy was of such importance back in the old days of Japan that children were actually numbered : Ichiro is 1st son (Ichi is 1), Jiro is 2nd son, Saburo is 3d son (San is 3), Shiro, Goro, Rokuro, Situro, Hachiro, Kuro, Juro, etc etc.

aboutI found that the easiest way to buy Japanese magazines (if not in Japan) is through CDjapan. Few days ago I received my first MJ and I can't understand a word, but the pics are beautiful.
ABBYY FineReader Adds Support for Chinese, Japanese, Thai and Hebrew
I read:
ABBYY, a leading provider of document recognition, data capture and linguistic software, today announced the newest release of its FineReader 9.0 optical character recognition (OCR) and document conversion application with added support for Chinese (both traditional and simplified), Japanese, Thai and Hebrew languages. ABBYY FineReader now recognizes a total of 184 languages and provides the broadest language support combining European, a range of Asian, African and Middle East languages in a single package.
“With the inclusion of support for these additional languages, ABBYY FineReader has now become available to nearly two billion more people from all over the world,” said Sergey Popov, director of the FineReader product department. “We are proud to offer our new customers a language-enriched product that delivers the traditionally high accuracy of ABBYY’s proprietary OCR technology, even with complex languages and writing systems.”
ABBYY FineReader 9.0 has been enhanced to accurately recognize both horizontal and vertical Chinese and Japanese script. Its user interface now includes intuitive options specifically adapted to handle and edit ideographic text (both horizontal and vertical). Its updated verification tool also allows users to easily verify recognized documents in Chinese and Japanese, with the ability to compare an uncertainly recognized character with its original image and to select the right character from a range of possible variants offered by the program. “Enabling recognition support for an ideographic language is a very challenging job for developers as it requires the creation of an enormous database of character patterns. For Chinese, we used millions of patterns to train FineReader to recognize tens of thousands of characters and their variants,” added Popov.
This means, after scan and converting the text in a DOC file, you can use google's language tool.
Now a "Off-Topic" question:
Who can post an early RCA advertisement about the first popular BjT power device "2N3055" ?
In the aera between 1961 and 1968 there must to find such an advertisement.
Unfortunately the exactly date of release I don't know - about
http://datasheetreference.com/2n3055-datasheet.html
there is only follow to read:
The 2N3055 transistor is a silicon NPN power transistor intended for general purpose applications. It was introduced in the early 1960's by RCA using their "hometaxial" power transistor process
Independend of this I am looking to an URL with a genuine RCA datasheet of the 2N3055; online unfortunately I find only newer datasheets from other manufacturers.
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