User:Manmaru

I originally joined to expand the Ise, Mie article, my "Japanese hometown", however most of my editing attention is now focused elsewhere...

I'm currently getting a lot of work done on translating articles from Japanese into English that deal with train lines, particularly Kintetsu lines. In addition to translating I'm creating a route diagram, service listing, and station table for each line article and standardizing these things as much as possible. I hope to cover every single Kintetsu article as well as some JR lines of interest to me. I also plan to translate a number of Japan-related articles about rivers, lakes, mountains, etc...

Todo List

Main page: Manmaru's Todo List

Background

• Born in Westerville, Ohio, USA (near Columbus)
• Raised in Centerville, Ohio, USA (near Dayton)
• Went to college in Kent, Ohio, USA (near Akron)
• Currently living in the city of Suzuka, Mie Prefecture, Japan

Education

• Graduated from Kent State University
  • Bachelor degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics
  • Certificate in TEFL

• Studied abroad at Technische Universität Dresden in Dresden, Germany

• JLPT Level 1

Occupation

• Worked as a computer technician in college
• Currently working as an English teacher (courtesy the JET Program)

Interests

• Japanese translation
• Public transport systems (in particular, the Japanese train system)
• Geography
• Civil Engineering structures (in particular, bridges and highways)
• History
• Linguistics (in particular, Japanese linguistics)
• Computer programming
• Computing and web standards
• The square root of five and the golden ratio
• TEFL theory
• Politics

Contributions

Milestones
1250	List of basic Japan topics	May 28, 2008
1000	Ise Electric Railway	May 09, 2008
900	Kintetsu-Yokkaichi Station	May 07, 2008
800	Kashiwara Station	May 01, 2008
700	Kintetsu Yamada Line	Apr 30, 2008
600	Kintetsu Shima Line	Apr 24, 2008
500	Kintetsu Toba Line	Apr 21, 2008
400	Akeno Station	Apr 17, 2008
300	Ōdai, Mie	Jul 17, 2007
200	Template:User Nagasaki Prefecture	Jun 28, 2007
100	Template:User Mie Prefecture	Jun 25, 2007
50	Minami-Ise, Mie	May 25, 2007
10	Ise, Mie	May 17, 2007
1	User:Manmaru	May 17, 2007

This user is a participant in WikiProject Japan.

This user is a member of WikiProject Trains in Japan.

These are articles to which I have contributed either most or all of the content, some of which were initially created by me. I actively watch, maintain, and guard them, I also perform small standardization-based edits whenever need be.

I believe this is called 自己満足

Geography

• Japan
  • List of lakes in Japan
  • Municipalities
    • Mie Prefecture
      • Ise • Matsusaka • Meiwa
  • Rivers
    • Kushida • Miya

People

• Masao Mukai

Railways

• Companies
  • Ise Electric Railway
• Lines
  • JR Central
    • Sangū Line
  • Kintetsu
    • Hachiōji Line • Shima Line • Suzuka Line • Toba Line • Utsube Line • Yamada Line • Yunoyama Line
  • Sangi
    • Hokusei Line

Userboxes

• Japanese Prefectures

Travel

Countries
USA 1982-11-07	Japan 2004-05-13	Germany 2005-05-16	Czech 2005-06-04	Denmark 2005-06-24	Sweden 2005-06-25	S. Korea 2007-08-22

US States
CO	FL	GA	IL	IN	KY	MI	MO
NC	OK	OH	PA	SC	TN	TX	WV

Japanese Prefectures
Tochigi 栃木県	Saitama 埼玉県	Chiba 千葉県	Tōkyō 東京都	Kanagawa 神奈川県	Nagano 長野県	Ishikawa 石川県	Fukui 福井県
Shizuoka 静岡県	Aichi 愛知県	Mie 三重県	Gifu 岐阜県	Shiga 滋賀県	Kyōto 京都府	Ōsaka 大阪府	Nara 奈良県
Wakayama 和歌山県	Hyōgo 兵庫県	Okayama 岡山県	Kagawa 香川県	Ehime 愛媛県	Hiroshima 広島県	Tottori 鳥取県	Shimane 島根県
Yamaguchi 山口県	Fukuoka 福岡県	Saga 佐賀県	Nagasaki 長崎県	Kumamoto 熊本県	Ōita 大分県	Miyazaki 宮崎県	Kagoshima 鹿児島県

German States
Bavaria	Berlin	Brandenburg	Hesse	Saxony

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Basic

NameThis user's name is Jeff.

42YThis Wikipedian was born on 07 November 1982 and is 42 years, 1 months, and 17 days old.

This user is married.

This user is from Earth.

This user is a citizen of the United States of America.

This user lives in Japan.

三重This user lives in
Mie Prefecture.

Education

This user is a Golden Flash of Kent State University.

This user has an academic degree in Computer Science.

This user has a minor in
Mathematics.

1級This user has passed Level 1
of the JLPT.

漢検
4級This user has passed Level 4
of the Kanji Kentei.

Language

enThis user is a native speaker of the English language.

ja-4この利用者は母語に近いレベルで日本語を使いこなせます。

de-1Dieser Benutzer hat grundlegende Deutschkenntnisse.

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əThis user has an advanced understanding of the International Phonetic Alphabet.

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該用戶認為漢字簡化破壞了漢字之美。
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$\pi \neq {\frac {p}{q}}$

This user can prove that $\pi$ is irrational.

(1), (n) → (n+1)

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One
RingThis user stole the Precious. It's ours and we wants it!

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Kill BillThis user owns a
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This user is a sumo wrestler.