北川景子の書いた物Kitagawa Keiko's writings

外見より中身! Best-effort English translation of Kitagawa Keiko's writings and related news.

News

Blog: The Mystery will be solved after Dinner Special
+ Mystery-D staff: Hurray! There will be a special!!
Blog: Back in Japan
Blog: Reebok
Cinema Today: Movie "Magic Tree House" Kitagawa Keiko exclusive interview

RSS Twitter Facebook

This site has two RSS feeds to alert visitors to changes, rss.xml, that is updated immediately in concert with the News box, and rss-blog.xml, that is carries the exact same information, but is only updated when there's a blog translation in the mix. Updates to this site are also announced on a Twitter feed and on a Facebook page. (Keiko herself only has her blog. Read this fraud warning if you think otherwise.)

Comments

You can leave comments with the newest entries, but please be nice. There's only a tiny chance of Keiko visiting this site, but if she does then we want her to enjoy it, don't we?

Official news & Drama ratings

To see either the News and Profile pages of KEIKO'S BLOG or the Audience Rating TV site translated, first add the bookmarklet Translate Kitagawa Keiko site to your bookmarks or favourites. (Drag it to your bookmarks bar, or right click and choose "Bookmark This Link" or "Add to Favorites".) Now when you visit these places you can run the bookmarklet on each page and it will be translated in place.

(The bookmarklet uses a handcrafted text replacement table that is updated around 20:00 CET if needed.)

Resources

The maintainer of this site would be lost without these:
Wikipedia - Keiko Kitagawa
ウィキペディア - 北川景子
The English and Japanese Wikipedia pages have some background info on Keiko and lists of her accomplishments.
keiko缶
The most active Japanese fansite.
Google News: 北川景子
Youtube: 北川景子
These Google News and YouTube searches list lots of eye-candy whenever there's a newsworthy event.
WWWJDIC
The wonderful free Japanese-English dictionary. I seldom need query it directly, because the tools I use most of the time have the WWWJDIC dictionary built in.
Rikaichan & Rikaikun
Extensions for Firefox and Chrome that do WWWJDIC lookups of Japanese words as you move your mouse over them. I've made a little example to show you their power.
SpaceALC
The online portal to the Eijirō database of English-Japanese translations. It contains 1.5 million entries of not just dictionary definitions, but also an enormous number of example sentences. It's a treasure trove for Japanese learners who want to know how a word is actually used. (Also for Japanese learners of English, as it works both ways.)
Japanese Grammar Guide
This guide made me really understand how Japanese grammar works, instead of making me learn lists like a dumb automaton.
Yahoo!辞書
goo 辞書
俗語辞書
Online Japanese-to-Japanese dictionaries, because no matter how good WWWJDIC is, the Japanese know their language best.
エキサイト翻訳
OCN|翻訳サービス
Yahoo!翻訳
Google Translate
I confess, when I'm at the end of my rope, I will even stoop so low as to use automated translators. Even if all four produce total gibberish, as they usually do, they may still give me a clue on how to decode something. (On the Japanese sites you need to select the 日⇒英 or 和英 option before clicking 翻訳.)

Copying

Just quote some key parts and add a link to the full text, please. All this is already an unauthorized derivative work of a copyrighted work, so I don't like to see it made worse by having copies all over the place. Contact me if you wish for an exception.

Contact

A translation error? Anything else? Please let me know!