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Sites and apps for reading or comparing Japanese newspaper editorials - Sebastian - 2012-11-11
Looking for newspaper editorials to read in preparation for this year's JLPT, I discovered some very interesting sites where they compare editorials from different Japanese newspapers, and thought probably some people here would find that interesting too.
Some even compile editorials according to date and topic, so you can see the stance of each different media and compare them.
Here is one example, where they even put different editorials side by side, so the comparation is easier:
社説比較くん
I didn't know that there are even apps for mobile devices to read editorials from different Japanese newspapers. For IOS I found "たてコラム" and "社説リーダー", which lets you save articles to Evernote or open them in your browser, where you can use a service like Pocket to save them for offline reading (which works better, since you can't zoom or select text within 社説りーだー).
Do you have other interesting resources for this kind of text?
Sites and apps for reading or comparing Japanese newspaper editorials - chillimuffin - 2012-12-14
The website seems to be dead.
Does anyone know what happened to it? Did they move somewhere or just disappeared completely?
Sites and apps for reading or comparing Japanese newspaper editorials - nwperson - 2012-12-16
It's not dead.. I just visited there.
A great resource - thanks!!!
Sites and apps for reading or comparing Japanese newspaper editorials - Sebastian - 2013-08-17
Bump.
Just because 社説 (editorials) in general and 社説比較くん deserve it.
Has any of one spent some time reading 社説? What do you think of them?
Sites and apps for reading or comparing Japanese newspaper editorials - Sebastian - 2014-11-17
chillimuffin Wrote:The website seems to be dead.I and many people get a "503 Service Temporarily Unavailable" error for some misterious reason, but the site itself is actually up and many people can see it normally.
If you want to confirm whether the site is actually up, you can check on Down for everyone or just me.
I found a workaround by looking the site on Google and loading not the site itself, but Google's cache version of it. There's also a convenient bookmarklet that lets you see Google's cache version of any site you are currently trying to load, in case anyone wants it: [url=javascript:location.href='http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:'+window.location.href]Google cache Bookmarklet[/url] (just add this link to your bookmarks in Firefox, assign it a keyword, and then you can type that keyword on the address bar and load Google's cache version of the site you are at).
About 社説 in general, in Android I like 社説う. From there you can select the text and send it to Jade Reader, which is similar to Rikaichan, just without the need to use it from Firefox.
Sites and apps for reading or comparing Japanese newspaper editorials - Ash_S - 2014-11-17
I started getting the 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable thing just recently too :/
Sites and apps for reading or comparing Japanese newspaper editorials - Sebastian - 2014-11-17
Does Google's cache work for you?
BTW, I failed to mention that sometimes the cached version contains incomplete articles, but in those cases you can take the titles and look them up in your favorite search engine, which will take you to the original articles.
Sites and apps for reading or comparing Japanese newspaper editorials - Ash_S - 2014-11-17
Sebastian Wrote:Does Google's cache work for you?It works though like you said they seem to contain incomplete articles.
BTW, I failed to mention that sometimes the cached version contains incomplete articles, but in those cases you can take the titles and look them up in your favorite search engine, which will take you to the original articles.
For now I'm just using the various newspapers' websites:
http://www.asahi.com/paper/editorial.html
http://mainichi.jp/opinion/editorial/
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/editorial/
Sites and apps for reading or comparing Japanese newspaper editorials - drdunlap - 2014-11-17
Sebastian Wrote:Bump.社説 are good samples of intelligent writing that are easy to access. They're quite a bit harder than the average news article, though. My reading class at Kobe University used them exclusively and I've been reading one or two a day every day since then (~3 years?)! Japanese high school students also often use them as practice for the short essay portion of their university entrance exams.
Just because 社説 (editorials) in general and 社説比較くん deserve it.
Has any of one spent some time reading 社説? What do you think of them?
Good stuff. But difficult to break into, I suppose.
Sites and apps for reading or comparing Japanese newspaper editorials - Inny Jan - 2014-11-17
drdunlap Wrote:社説 are good samples of intelligent writing that are easy to access. They're quite a bit harder than the average news article, though.Let me paraphrase what you just said - 社説 is what an intelligent adult should have no problems with understanding.
Sites and apps for reading or comparing Japanese newspaper editorials - drdunlap - 2014-11-17
お、おう。
Sites and apps for reading or comparing Japanese newspaper editorials - z1bbo - 2014-12-01
thank you very much for the 社説比較くん recommendation, it's truly great. I hate the japanese newspaper websites because they are all full of annoying shit other than the text.
I cant get the version4 to load, but the version 3 is always online for me: http://massacre.s59.xrea.com/othercgi/shasetsu/index.xcg
pretty funny reading goverment predictions from 2007 that there will no more new debt by 2011... and without tax increase
Sites and apps for reading or comparing Japanese newspaper editorials - Sebastian - 2014-12-01
You're welcome z1bbo.
BTW, using this proxy did the trick for me, and now I can 社説比較くん again:
http://www.untracer.com/
After loading 社説比較くん, I just added the resulting address (seen via the proxy) to my bookmarks and added a keyword to it in Firefox, and now I can see it just typing "shasetsu" in the address bar.