Talk:J. Osawa

How to source a Japanese wiki page information?

Not much but it is something, a start. I found that wikis in different languages will more information than the same in English.

In this case the English page mentions that Osawa was major distributor, but page in Japanese ( trans. via Google Translate ) states that it was a major shareholder. The translated section of the Japanese page states

"However , 1984 February 29 , the principal at the time of Mamiya shareholder is a camera sales have been dealt with in overseas Osawa Shokai virtually bankrupt. Mamiya also received the tilt, the same year March 5 to the Corporate Rehabilitation Law have started the reorganization proceedings based on. In this process, the withdrawal from Mamiya ZE series is a 35mm film camera equipped with a miracle mount. It was decided to specialize in the manufacture of medium-format camera is a specialty."

I'm not sure I'd rely on the result of a Google-translation for such an important detail, especially when the auto-translated text is so incoherent. Also, if the writer was writing about the history of Mamiya (not of Osawa), they might not have been too worried about exact details where Osawa was concerned. We do have some Japanese speakers among our less frequent editors; you could leave a link to the untranslated text here, and someone might work on it. Cheers! --Dustin McAmera (talk) 12:50, 14 September 2015 (CDT)

I was not planning to, I presented it as example to showcase how a page in a different language can present different information. Google Translate gives a usually rough translation when doing whole page ( which is where that section came from ); it is usually better to do by section as it then provides alternate suggestions. Also even as bad that translation was, it does present an interesting angle. Link might not take but the page is <<https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%83%9F%E3%83%A4%E3%83%BB%E3%83%87%E3%82%B8%E3%82%BF%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A4%E3%83%A1%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B8%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B0>> looks that way because of the Japanese characters in the link.--Kometman (talk) 19:50, 14 September 2015 (CDT)

How to source a ad/article in the Google Books versions of a Popular Photography/Science/Mechanics article(s)?

Google books has searchable scan copies of the above magazines. I found at two ads for Osawa products.