Wednesday, November 11, 2009

The Wall Street Journal will launch its Japanese site on December 15, 2009


The Wall Street Journal will launch its Japanese site on December 15, 2009, and it will be called "The Japan Wall Street Journal = JWSJ."
Until its debut date, it has already started to send out some news in Japanese at http://japan.wsj.com as a preview or trial version.

In Asia, the Wall Street Journal already has its site for China, which launched in 2002, and Japan is picked as the second country in Asia. At the web site, Japanese translators and reporters will pick up the Japan-related topics/articles that approximately 1800 reporters contribute from all over the world, and translate them, and post them on the web site.

Since the President Obama will officially visit Japan for the first time on November 13th, JWSJ staffs have been updating a couple of its related articles a day so far.

Even though some does not understand the purpose of having Japanese version of Wall Street Journal, I think it will become very useful site for Japanese business people who have business overseas if the articles will be translated correctly. I expect that JWSJ will stimulate other Japanese-English newspapers such as Yomiuri, Asahi and Japan Times to provide us the most current and correct information about the world.

http://japan.wsj.com
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