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==Welcome==
Hi. If you’ve come to this page, I imagine it’s because you were either interested or annoyed by something I wrote or a change I made—anyhow, that’s usually ''my'' motivation for visiting someone’s user page <g>.

I’m a [[translator]] working between [[Japanese language|Japanese]] and [[English language|English]], a profession I took up in 1984. I lived in [[Hachioji]], a city in west [[Tokyo]], from 1981 to 2017; since June, I live in [[Yamaguchi, Yamaguchi|Yamaguchi]], my wife’s hometown.

Before coming to [[Japan]] in 1981 I lived for nearly five years in [[Germany]], mostly in a town called [[Wolfenbüttel]] in [[Niedersachsen]], but also in [[Hamburg]] and [[Pforzheim]]. I grew up in [[Riverton, New Jersey]], a small town across the river from [[Philadelphia]] in the US.

My educational background is not very impressive: a vocational high school for grades 9–12, then an apprenticeship in Germany, where I trained (and then worked) as a [[:de:Konditorei|''Konditor'']], sort of a combination of [[confectioner]] and [[baker]] (''Konditor''s don’t do [[bread]]). I originally came to Japan to go to college, but dropped out after three years to pursue my career in translation. The impending arrival of our first son kind of helped me reach the decision, too.

My interests are just about anything to do with [[Japan]]; German history (particularly the [[Nazi]] and post-war periods); [[typography]], letter forms, and scripts; and [[language]]s; in my next life, I think I’d like to get into [[vulcanology]] or [[seismology]] and dispense with the [[cake|cake baking]]. Anyhow, these are the areas where I hope to be able to contribute to Wikipedia. I’m also quite interested in [[Buddhism]], particularly the [[Nichiren Buddhism|Nichiren]] flavor(s), and believe I can be of help with describing or explaining terminology and concepts from particularly the [[Nichiren Shoshu]] school’s perspective (for the record: I believe that whether that perspective is viable or otherwise is for the reader to decide: my intent is to explain it, not promote it <g>).

Anyhow, thanks for stopping by.

Jim [[Clan Lockhart|Lockhart]] 14:22, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC); updated 17 Jul 2017

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==Notes for self==
*<nowiki><span style='font-variant:small-caps'>Small Caps</span></nowiki> for <span style='font-variant:small-caps'>Small Caps</span>
*Here’s [https://www3.nhk.or.jp/sokuho/jishin/data/JS00cwA0190126141639_20190126142022.jpg a preliminary map] of [[JMA seismic intensity scale|JMA Seismic Intensities]] accompanying an M4.4 earthquake that took place at 26 Jan 14:16 JST at [[Nagomi, Kumamoto]] showing the distribution of intensities (note plural) across the affected area. The quake’s maximum intensity was a –5 (a “weak” or “lower” 5). As anyone with a functioning set of eyes can see, numerous intensities accompanied this quake: they vary by observation point; this is a good illustration of how a quake does not have “an” intensity, it has lots of them. [[User:JALockhart|Jim_Lockhart]] ([[User talk:JALockhart|talk]]) 07:34, 26 January 2019 (UTC)

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The first entry appears before the brackets, the second is the Japanese term in Kanji and Kana, the last is the reading in Hepburn romanization. The question mark ? is a link to [[Help:Japanese]].

Manual of style for Jpn articles: [[WP:MOS-JA]]

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