Atsi Otani

I'm Atsi Otani. I'm a Japanese/English translator that lives in Sendai, Japan. I'm also an amateur musician. I mainly play keyboards and electric bass, but I can pick up the guitar or bang on drums to a certain extent.

Resources

Japanese Wikipedians' Notice Board

Sendai

To do list for Sendai

Create "see also..." pages when necessary
Expand domestic sister cities
Create symbols
Put politics, wards, /symbols, and the two sister city sections under something like "politics and symbols"
Put geography and climate under something like "geography and climate"
Expand Education
Create performing arts under culture
Need images for wards, symbols, climate (temperature/precipitation?), demographics (population graph?). Need a lot of nice pictures.
Could do something about the city's expansion history. Maybe a good diagram?

ToDo

Fodera - well, if it survives the Vfd vote. Consider creating an Anthony Jackson page.

Survived Vfd vote. Need to research.

Matsudaira Katamori and Katamori Matsudaira. Quite a mess right now. Might want to work on the Boshin War and the Aizu War if I'm going to do this.

Merged both articles into Matsudaira Katamori. Currently searching for good references.

Date Masamune - the last time I looked at the article, it was absolutely horrible.

Got reference. Now reading.

Check municipalities in Miyagi. There's not much I can do to expand the articles, but checking can't hurt.

A lot are not titled "name_of_city, Miyagi" but "name_of_city". Should I create a lot of redirects?

They're all City/Town, Miyagi now. Someone changed 'em...-William McDuff 13:18, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

Figure out the proper licensing for the maps in the Japanese municipality pages. The ja.wikipedia's village pump indicates that the Japanese wikipedians actually are confused themselves. Could take some time.

Drafts

Articles that can be improved

Just notes to self

Pachinko - I rarely play pachinko, but I still notice some glaring errors in the article. The writers probably don't know hanemono or kenrimono, and probably have very limited knowledge of pachisuro. The article focuses on degipachi, the most popular form, but that isn't all there is.
Bullfighting - Could use a description of bullfighting in Japan.
Battle of Nagashino - Information is obsolete. As a result of modern research, the Takeda army is no longer considered to have posessed a killer calvary. Even worse, Nobunaga's volley fire has been essentially proved to be nothing but a legend.