Sayonara, Mata Ashita

___I think WordPress is the best blog ever I have used. It is really easy to understand how to use many functions in the blog system. And among other things, it is also good that number of bloggers is displayed in the top page. Today, it is 1,586,192, which is a quite big number and means so many people are gathering here. It is really important to show how many people are using the blog system, because people do not want to use unpopular blog site. But as to showing the numbers of bloggers, WordPress is not the first blog site which started this. In any Japanese blog sites, participant’s number has been displayed since their openings. I remember each Japanese blog site had 300,000 or more bloggers several years ago. Compared to these numbers, it seems that the WordPress’s number is quite large. And I just wondered how many Japanese blogers exist in Rakuten, Yahoo Japan, FC2 and so on, so I tried to check the number out. But oops, I couldn’t find the numbers. I guess, Japanese blog sites have already got so huge numbers of bloggers so that they don’t think it is worth showing the number.

___Recently I have heard that there are almost the same number of blogs written in Japanese as that of blogs written in English in this world. Some guy said like; “Japanese like writing something”. And the other guy said that “If web-translation will be enhanced, what is written in Japanese blog would become widely known into the outside world”. I don’t agree the latter opinion so much. The first reason is that Japanese language is really complicated, hard to understand. So no matter how an web-translation would be enhanced, it never be understandable to Native English speaker. Perhaps an web-translater can translate formal Japanese sentences in English well some extent, but in the case that blogger writes spoken Japanese, moreover, conversations which is only for their small groups, web-translater is sure to become dysfunctional. The second reason is that foreign people are hardly interested in what Japanese are writing. I guess outside world never think there might be something useful, valuable, worth of knowing things exist in Japan.

___Because of different language, country, habit, way of thinking and so on, I think exchanges across the border are always prevented. When the internet was started, I had expected that if the web technology be going ahead, so many “walls” that dividing languages and nations might be broken away. But it is not true. It seems like that “walls” is still existed and rather, becoming higher than before and people are just getting along with each other inside the wall.

___I usually write a post in English. This is my exercise to write English. But not only for that, I wish my English writing might make the “walls” lower a little bit. Though numbers of viewers are a really small number for my blog, I will really be happy if someone who haven’t known me at all would get to know me through my postings. So far I have posted 71 times and got 667 views. This means that one post was read by 9.4 times. Ah…mine is quite unpopular. How can I do for that? Is it better to put many tags?

___Today’s photo is the Blue Roof Tile Building (but not present president’s office) in Seoul, South Korea