OK, I whipped up a little page with the symbols and the Japanese version of
the Datsun logo I recreated from a photo from the 30's. Foreign words (and
those they want to look important like company names) are written in
katakana, which are phonetic symbols (and one of the three ways of writing
in Japanese - they don't make things easy for themselves!).
http://www.shiftco.com/datto/
Enjoy,
Leigh Brooks
BADROC
on 12/4/01 7:19 PM, Stephen McCartney at sgam@hotmail.com wrote:
> Actually, on that note, I was wondering if anyone had images of how "Datsun"
> and "Fairlady" look in Japanese?
>
> Cheers,
> Steve
> (no wonder their manuals make no sense!)
>
>
>> From: verio <shifty@best.com>
>> Reply-To: verio <shifty@best.com>
>> To: Roadster Listgroup <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
>> Subject: Re: <OT> Encyclopedia of cars
>> Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2001 18:53:44 -0800
>>
>> Some great books covering Japanese cars are the "Historic Car Grafitti
>> Catalog" series, published by Eichi Mook or Eichishuppan. If you have a
>> Japanese language bookstore, like Kinokuniya, they can order them for you.
>> I
>> have Volume 1 which covers 1950-1979, 'course its all in Japanese, but the
>> pictures are cool, and it's fun to puzzle out the katakana - fe a ra di =
>> fairlady, bu ru ba do = bluebird!
>>
>> Leigh Brooks
>> BADROC
>>
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