Yeah, it would revive traditional roles, but suddenly nobody would be able to support a family anymore (not those first few years, at least), because life's too expensive for just one breadwinner.
Suddenly games wouldn't see a localised version anymore. To play anything that requires language comprehension, you'd have to study the source language.
This thankfully doesn't impact me personally, but people would lose out on some cool content. Not everyone finds it fun to spend years to acquire a language to the degree some games require.
I don't like this guy, but he's right. Japan still has ex-PM Taro Aso in a ministerial position, and the guy has been a mummy for decades and can barely walk in a straight line.
The US really need an alternative to this guy. If a private person with zero democratic legitimacy can influence wars in which the USA have picked a side, and support the enemy, mechanisms are needed.
Absolutely. The problem arises when the source material then gets translated from English, which already suffers from losing nuances.
It's also often debatable if something counts as liberty or is really a lazy shortcut, when it's clear that something could have been done in better ways.
I don't think it's possible to get close to the original other than learning the original source language. I'd think this goes for English books/movies translated to Japanese, too.
Many European language versions of anime and games are being localized not by translating the original Japanese, but the English.
Lots of translators also seem to use Google or DeepL, which makes the issue even worse.
The English language version often don't even translate, they write their own version, calling it "creative liberty". This leads to a completely different version than what was intended, with others, such as the German or Spanish version, being even further from the original.
That's why claims of people of having "learnt Japanese from anime" are dubious in the best of cases.
Source: Am Japanese, working in game translation in Tokyo. I'm also trilingual, which makes it even worse to watch this. Ignorance is bliss.
It absolutely is sexual assault. Hope he gets his just punishment. If you do that, say, on the street, you'll get arrested and sued. Time to treat public persons accordingly.
Imagine Mexico having a female president in a timeline where America elects Trump again. Then imagine the overwhelming amount of cringe coming out of the White House that'll make American people look like backward hillbillies, reinforcing all the already existing stereotypes.
This guy really doesn't know when and how to shut up.