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INTEREST: Nana Mizuki Teaches Us the Proper Way to Eat Eel

It seems that people visiting Nakau can expect Nana to be everywhere in the city for quite a while.

Nakau, a Japanese restaurant chain specializing in donburi (rice bowls) and noodles.

...and pudding (particularly "for well-composed, Kyoto-style women").

なか卯の店内は、京風の落ち着きがあり女性のお客様にも、おくつろぎいただいております。

Actually, the '京風の落ち着きがあり' (Kyōto-style quiet) part says that the inside of Nakau restaurants has a Kyōto-style quiet feel. The '京風の落ち着きがあり' (Kyōto-style quiet) part does not modify the '女性のお客様' (female customers) part.
If you think about whether 'あり' is an attributive form, you can easily find that the '京風の落ち着きがあり' (Kyōto-style quiet) part does not modify the '女性のお客様' (female customers) part.
The reason why Nakau takes the trouble to say so is that usually women tend to regard eating at cheap joints of that kind as uncool or not feminine. So, Nakau wants to attract female customers. (See Nakau also say, 'スイーツ' (sweets). スイーツ（笑）) It seems that women are less reluctant to eat at Nakau, in comparison with other eating joints of that kind, say, Yoshinoya, however.

Thank you for pointing this out. The article has been fixed.

In Arthur Waley: A Translator of The Tale of Genji, Dr Hirakawa Sukehiro has said that the peak of Japanology in the USA had been in the middle of the twentieth century. He may be correct.

So, Nakau wants to attract female customers.

Seriously, it may be better for anime/manga-related companies to think about what they will do when a 'having a smattering of Japanese' ani-ota gaijin whose proficiency in Japanese is in reality not enough pretends to be an expert in the Japanese language and things Japanese and applies for a job related to translation at them, if actually the executives and senior staffers in the companies are not fluent in Japanese and cannot judge whether an applicant's proficiency in Japanese is high enough.

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Seriously, it may be better for anime/manga-related companies to think about what they will do when a 'having a smattering of Japanese' ani-ota gaijin whose proficiency in Japanese is in reality not enough pretends to be an expert in the Japanese language and things Japanese and applies for a job related to translation at them, if actually the executives and senior staffers in the companies are not fluent in Japanese and cannot judge whether an applicant's proficiency in Japanese is high enough.

All of our translators are verified through their scores on JLPT and must meet a standard of Japanese language skills (N2 or better). This includes interns. The rest of your statement is entirely presumptuous, insulting: i.e. "ani-ota gaijin" and "pretends to be an expert," and is false.

This also seems to happen quite often for people who don't understand how our newsroom runs. Both of our senior staffers are fluent: Crystalyn Hodgkins & Egan Loo. Christopher MacDonald is our CEO. He does not edit any of the content on this site, although you keep referencing in your posts how his admittance of not being fluent in Japanese as some kind of proof that none of the senior staff is fluent.

If you think something like 'Those Japanese texts are difficult. They are too difficult to comprehend even for people who are fluent in Japanese. So, it was in the nature of things that Eric mistranslated them,' sad to say, it suggests that your abilities in Japanese are not very high.

Seriously, it may be better for anime/manga-related companies to think about what they will do when a 'having a smattering of Japanese' ani-ota gaijin whose proficiency in Japanese is in reality not enough pretends to be an expert in the Japanese language and things Japanese and applies for a job related to translation at them, if actually the executives and senior staffers in the companies are not fluent in Japanese and cannot judge whether an applicant's proficiency in Japanese is high enough.

Eric Stimson wrote:

...and pudding (particularly "for well-composed, Kyoto-style women").

Nakau wrote:

なか卯の店内は、京風の落ち着きがあり女性のお客様にも、おくつろぎいただいております。

http://www.nakau.co.jp/jp/campaign/2015/150603NANA.html

Actually, the '京風の落ち着きがあり' (Kyōto-style quiet) part says that the inside of Nakau restaurants has a Kyōto-style quiet feel. The '京風の落ち着きがあり' (Kyōto-style quiet) part does not modify the '女性のお客様' (female customers) part.
If you think about whether 'あり' is an attributive form, you can easily find that the '京風の落ち着きがあり' (Kyōto-style quiet) part does not modify the '女性のお客様' (female customers) part.
The reason why Nakau takes the trouble to say so is that usually women tend to regard eating at cheap joints of that kind as uncool or not feminine. So, Nakau wants to attract female customers. (See Nakau also say, 'スイーツ' (sweets). スイーツ（笑）) It seems that women are less reluctant to eat at Nakau, in comparison with other eating joints of that kind, say, Yoshinoya, however.
In Arthur Waley: A Translator of The Tale of Genji, Dr Hirakawa Sukehiro has said that the peak of Japanology in the USA had been in the middle of the twentieth century. He may be correct.　

Both of our senior staffers are fluent: Crystalyn Hodgkins & Egan Loo.