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 The
best way to get up-to-the-minute information on Japanese
baseball is to go directly to the Yahoo Scoreboard or the Nikkan Sports Baseball
Scoreboard.
Assuming you have the right software to read Japanese
characters, you'll need to learn a little kanji and
katakana to understand the writing on the screen. Just
click through the links until you find something that
looks familiar.If you
don't have the right software, you still have a few
options. The best way is to get a computer that is loaded
with a Japanese operating system (windows, for example).
Japanese systems will display both kanji and western
characters. You can also run English language software
without any trouble on J Windows 95. The problem, of
course comes when you get an error or other message
window and can't read it. Gambatte!
Some
companies have developed programs that will not only
display Japanese characters on an English language
system, but will also translate them into English.
Amazing software like this, however, is also quite
expensive. NeocorTech is one of the top companies in
this field, but if you search the web, you may find
others. Incidentally, Neocor does offer J-TEXT, a
freeware program that lets you type kanji, katakana and
hiragana on an English system -- but it may not be useful
for reading Japanese web pages.
The
Netscape web site the lists a plug-in that will read
Japanese characters; the catch is you have to have a
Japanese operating system to use it. Not very helpful.
The folks at Microsoft may already be developing such a
program, but you'd never know that by searching their
convoluted web site.
But if
all the above suggestions are too much trouble, check out
the Nandonet SporstServer which posts scores of Japanese
baseball games in English -- though you might have to
wait a day or two to see the results.
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