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The Japanese translator of Harry Potter series who's been translating it from the beginning and publishing it through her own company was accused yesterday of tax evasion over the past three years that amounts to around $35,000,000. The news came out yesterday in Japan, but it was only today that the English versions of not all but some of the Japanese newspapers reported it on their Web pages. CNN. com seemed to have reported it earlier than they did. Why they are always so slow in providing the latest news is beyond me. All they've been doing since they started their own websites is just reporting what we already knew the day before. Is it that it takes them that long to do the translations? As far as I'm concerned, I don't care if I can't read about what happened today in Japan in English, but I'm wondering what people around the world, including those now staying in Japan, who cannot read Japanese yet desire to get information about Japan, think about this tardiness, in this age of the Internet.

World Cup 3

I was watching one of the quarter finals kick off when they got the British captain reading out something about fight against racism before the game. I wonder whether the other game today between France and Brazil will start off with the same thing. Every time I see the French team playing, I can't help but wonder why there is not a single player who looks like real French people (not legally, but ethnically speaking.)
The reason I say this is because last month I saw a TV documentary that gave a sense of how prevalent and socially structured racism is in France these days, especially in terms of job opportunities. If I give credit to it, the toll racism takes on minorities in the country is so devastating that it's no wonder that racial turmoil erupted there recently. The irony is that the French team seems to consist almost exclusively of players of the races that are discriminated against.

However, that's absolutely none of my business.