The YamaKiyo Press has gone into hibernation due my busy schedule. I may occasionally post during the next two weeks, but it will not be on a daily basis. I am still keeping up with recent import news, so if there's anything major breaking, I'll be sure to make some time to translate it and put it up.

I have also received my copy of the sequel to the popular brain training game, Motto Nou wo Kitaeru Otana no DS Training. I have been training my brain for the past 3 days, slowly unlocking the various training games including the Dr. Mario-like mini game. I plan to write up a review of the game including little mini-reviews for each training game that is included on the cart. Check back later for more.

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I have indefinitely killed the RSS feed to this site due to some technical issues. I am currently trying to create an excerpt-only RSS feed, but the question of when or if that will happen is still uncertain. Since this feature is not readily available with the software I am using, I will most likely have to modify the code myself, which honestly is not on the top of my "to-do" list.

If anyone has any experience with this and would like to offer their help, please contact me.

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The YamaKiyo Press has been in operation for a little over one month now. Since then, the visitor count has gone up and so has bandwidth usage. Although bandwidth has not yet reached the point where I would consider it to be a concern, I have decided to make a few small changes to the site.

First and most obvious is the change to the right side of the page: the Google Adsense ad space. I have placed these ads on the site in order to bring in ad revenue that will at least help pay for domain and server maintenance costs. Current statistics show that this particular site is responsible for over 60% of my total bandwidth usage. While I don’t expect the ads to generate a significant source of income, it will nevertheless be used to supplement the costs of running a site like this. If bandwidth usage continues to increase, I will seek out alternatives, but for the time being, I believe this will be an adequate solution.

Second is the addition of a domain name. When I started The YamaKiyo Press, it was an afterthought – a side-project of sorts. As things stand now, this site shows some promise of becoming something of its own. It is for this reason that I have decided to obtain a new domain name for this site: www.yamakiyopress.com. While the hosting will still be done by my main domain, www.yamakiyo.org, I will use the new domain to redirect traffic to this page. The new domain will serve as a more memorable and fitting portal to the site itself.

I thank those who have supported this endeavor, and I hope to continue to provide the community with quality news translations into the future.


Jon “yamakiyo”
Webmaster, The YamaKiyo Press

Posted by yamakiyo in General at 23:00

The Japanese Meteorological Agency today concluded on last December’s weather information: In low temperatures that have not been felt nationwide in 20 years, Eastern and Western Japan were the coldest since the gathering of statistical local averages began in 1946. The last time all four regions of Japan (North, South, East, West) were colder than the yearly average was in 1985.

Based on region, Toyama City, Mie Prefecture’s Yokkaichi City, Hyogo Prefectures Toyooka City, Miyagi Prefecture’s Nobeoka City, and 29 other regions have all set new low temperature records since observations began.


Translated by yamakiyo
Source: [Asahi Newspaper]

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