Where can I buy the Japanese version and a Chinese version of Microsoft Vista Business online for use in the United States? Media and license. [more inside]
posted on May 1, 2008 - 4 answers

What language should I study? [more inside]
posted on May 7, 2007 - 25 answers

What does this Chinese/Japanese (?) sign mean? It's in big print on a good looking second hand t-shirt I just bought. I hope that after you all-knowing people have translated it for me, I'll feel more comfortable wearing it.
posted on Apr 23, 2007 - 19 answers

Please recommend me some recent masterpieces of Asian cinema. [more inside]
posted on Mar 19, 2006 - 37 answers

A friend of mine and I were wondering today how encryption was done in character-based languages like Chinese and Japanese before the advent of computerization. Whereas all kind of substitution and transposition ciphers come to mind immediately for letter based languages like Latin, it isn't obvious how you could use them for a language with many thousands of distinct characters.
posted on Dec 5, 2005 - 9 answers

Japanese/Chinese/Korean T-shirt question.
posted on May 13, 2004 - 20 answers

I just watched The Chinese Connection for the first time in a long time. There is a scene where Bruce Lee sees the nipples of his kung fu school's cook. (Lee walks into the kitchen and the camera does a tight shot on the man's exposed nipples.) Somehow, the nipples are evidence to Lee that the cook is in fact Japanese, not Chinese (and therefore the likely murderer of the school's teacher.) Is there any rational reason for this?
posted on May 9, 2004 - 12 answers