Group PurposeEdit

• Provide a place to coordinate the romanization and translation of Japanese lyrics and provide a way to have peer reviews of both.
• Provide a way to pool resources such as CD booklet scans, websites, etc. to help with translations and romanizations.
• Provide a place for discussing Japan, the Japanese language and culture as it relates to lyrics and music.

General Group RulesEdit

• If you are trying to refer to a Japanese word, please use the kanji and provide a reading for it like this or something similar: 胸 (mune). Please don't use only romaji if it can be helped, it doesn't accurately describe the Japanese language.

ProjectsEdit

Organized efforts by the group will be coordinated from here.

Pages to UpdateEdit

• Help:Romanization - Currently a stub. Update to match results of discussions on talk page.
• Help:Contents/Editing/Formatting/Artists/Japanese is a stub. Is only linked from our talk page, needs to be incorporated into the help section.
• Help:Contents/Editing/Formatting/Songs/Japanese is a stub. Is only linked from our talk page, needs to be incorporated into the help section.
• Help:Contents/Editing/Formatting/Albums/Japanese. Needs to be written.

Where To Help Out Edit

• Requests For Romanization/Japanese (734 pages)
• Requests For Translation/Japanese (2,358 pages) Even a simple or partial translation will do
• Request Anime Page (213 pages)
• Hometown/Japan (1,044 pages)
• Anime Songbox (75 pages)

Artists to TargetEdit

Use the talk page to discuss who should be targeted by the group.

Useful TemplatesEdit

• {{Translation}} to line up Romanized Japanese next to a translation.
• {{TransTitle}} for songs with titles in Japanese.
• {{RequestTranslation}} to get translators' attention.
• {{RequestKanaKanji}} to get kana and kanji providers' attention.
• {{AnimeFeature}} for songs featured in anime series

Group MembersEdit

See members list. Add your name there to join.

ResourcesEdit

LyricsEdit

• AnimeLyrics.com
• "Anime Songu no Kashi nara Koko ni O-makase?"
• goo Music Lyrics Search
• Utamap Lyrics Search
• Uta-Net Lyrics Search

DictionariesEdit

• dictionary.goo.ne.jp - Japanese Only Dictionary
• lwjiten - Japanese/English Dictionary
• Rikaichan - In-browser Japanese-English Dictionary (Firefox)
• Nihongoresources - an online Japanese dictionary
• Excite (Automatic Translator) - similar to Babelfish
• Denshi Jisho - Excellent "Kanji by Radicals" search.
• nciku Japanese Dictionary - nciku, now for Japanese as well (Jap-Eng dictionary, kanji search, etc).