[Japanophiles] Weakening Dollar vs Yen

[Trading Department]

To all those interested in Japanese language and culture...

Kanji Wall Chart Prices
As you know, there is much talk about the economy these days, and not  
much of it good.  One aspect which we are concerned about at Rolomail  
Trading is the nearly 20% drop in the value of the dollar against the  
yen since our last major import of Kanji Wall Charts.  While the  
weakening dollar makes nearly everything we offer less expensive to  
people purchasing in Euros, British Pounds, Australian Dollars etc,  
when it comes time for us to purchase products actually made in  
Japan, the dollar's dilemma will make our costs significantly  
higher.  For that reason, if you have been sitting on the fence  
trying to decide when to buy kanji wall charts, I strongly suggest  
you do so now.  All of our charts are in stock, but when they have to  
be reordered, prices will almost certainly be raised.

http://www.rolomail.com/cgi-bin/home.cgi?wall_charts


New Stroke Order Diagram and Animation Licensees
The number of websites using our stroke order diagrams and animations  
continues to rise.  We would like to point out the websites using our  
diagrams under license or which have a license to use when they wish:

Norman Lin granted special license to use 4 Stroke Order Diagrams  
(SODs) in one chapter of a book on mobile learning systems, strictly  
for illustrative purposes.

Michael Hominick's RenShuu.org at Duke University's Dept. of Asian &  
African Languages and Literature.

Nicholaus Shupe's jTango for the Web.

Jarkko Huijts's Jarkko's webhoek (in Dutch).

Jim Breen's WWWJDIC in Australia.

Cyril Bele's KanjiRoushi Japanese Language Tools (in French and  
English).

Eloy Villasclaras's Hating Kanji Java based software package, which  
has a special additional license grant such that Eloy Villasclaras  
may use the SODs as a raw data for determining correct stroke order  
using machine logic in the Hating Kanji (ihatekanji) software  
package. He must maintain a notice that the SODs are used under this  
license for the purpose of calculating correct stroke order in the  
stroke order testing program's display.

Dana Contreras's jlex. Her version of Kanji Lookup-by-Multi-Radical  
is only the 3rd in the world, and has some unique innovations.

Paul Goins, in Hyogo-ken, Japan, is developing a free software  
packaged called J-Ben which would allow users to incorporate the SODs  
and SODAs.

Olof Sjobergh in Sweden has created a Swedish-Japanese dictionary  
site called Japanska.se.

Grzegorz Bober at the University of Warsaw Institute of Oriental  
Studies has developed Tangorin which makes use of AJAX and  
incorporates the SODs.

Professor Jouji Miwa at Iwate University in Japan is using the SODs  
and SODAs in his uPal project (United Portal for Advanced Learning).

Ted Cory has received a commercial license for his Kanji-A-Day site  
and Kanji-Mail email course. License grants permission to collect  
advertising revenue.

Howie and Akiko Hayman in San Diego have obtained a commercial  
license for their site Japanese Language Culture Food. License grants  
permission to collect advertising revenue.

Jan Kasprzak in the Czech Republic has obtained a license for his new  
Japanese learning project Zkoušení slovní zásoby (in Czech).

Links to these licensees in good standing can be found on the License  
Page:

http://www.kanjicafe.com/license.htm




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