Talk:Yakitate!! Japan

message: ' pan" is the Japanese word for "bread" (a borrowed word stemming from Portuguese "pão") '
"Pan" is spanish for bread too. 
-Passerby
===Why?===
Why is the etymology for the Japanese "Pan" attributed to the Portuguese "pao"?  Unless there is a specific Japanese-Portuguese cultural link, I would think that it would make more sense for pan to stem from the French word for bread - "pain".  Given the series' focus on France as the center of bread making  (even going so far as to parody the Coup du Monde de la Boulangerie), this would be a more precise attribution.
For reference
http://www.europain.com/fr/conferences_animations/coupe_du_monde.html
-Renn
:Answer: The Portuguese got to Japan first. 
:From Gairaigo: In the past, more gairaigo came from other languages besides English. The first non-Asian countries to have extensive contact with Japan were Holland and Portugal in the 16th and 17th centuries, and Japanese has several loanwords from Portuguese and Dutch, many of which are still used in Japan today.  See also:List_of_Gairaigo_and_Wasei-eigo_terms, History_of_Portuguese#Old_Portuguese:_Discoveries_Period and offsite Japanese => English Dictionary. --Kunzite 03:15, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Pan is Portuguese

message: Why is the etymology for the Japanese "Pan" attributed to the Portuguese "pao"?  Unless there is a specific Japanese-Portuguese cultural link, I would think that it would make more sense for pan to stem from the French word for bread - "pain".  Given the series' focus on France as the center of bread making  (even going so far as to parody the Coup du Monde de la Boulangerie), this would be a more precise attribution.
For reference
http://www.europain.com/fr/conferences_animations/coupe_du_monde.html
-Renn
:Answer: The Portuguese got to Japan first. 
:From Gairaigo: In the past, more gairaigo came from other languages besides English. The first non-Asian countries to have extensive contact with Japan were Holland and Portugal in the 16th and 17th centuries, and Japanese has several loanwords from Portuguese and Dutch, many of which are still used in Japan today.  See also:List_of_Gairaigo_and_Wasei-eigo_terms, History_of_Portuguese#Old_Portuguese:_Discoveries_Period and offsite Japanese => English Dictionary. --Kunzite 03:15, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Why?

message: I've added Kanmuri and Yuuichi Kirisaki, as I think they are important characters in later episodes of the anime and volumes of manga. Can anyone get their Japanese names?
Sastrawan 10:32, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Japanese Characters names 

message: This article is good, but still in need of some anime screenshots Raquel Sama 20:57, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I know it's an old comment, but I agree (sort of). Some pictures would be neat. Maybe a picture for each bread (on a seperate "list of Yakitate!! Japan breads" page maybe) or something to that effect. --CCFreak2K 07:42, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

text: We might be running into the "fair use" problems though. I guess some people just don't understand why images make things more clearer. Also character face pics would also be nice. not sure what the fair use rationale would hold up though.Noian (talk) 06:46, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Pics

message: "In Episode 25, during Kawachi's afro training, there's a parody of the famous novel, dorama and movie Sekachu, where Kawachi has a reaction and appears on top of a bread whose crust looks a bit like the Ayers Rock (this reasoning is backed up by the fact that there are kangaroos on the  crust), shouting "afro no chushin De ai wo sakebi" ("Crying out afro in the center of the world").
Shouldn't this be translated as "Crying out love in the [middle|center|heart] of the afro"?  Héctor at 87.217.177.234 00:47, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Comment on trivia

message: Although this list would seem revelent to the article, they have to be tidied up in some way to make sense to a non-viewer. Unfortunately, they would have long expositions how and why the bread works so I don't know how to explain it without making it really wordy and overly detailed. UnfriendlyFire 06:38, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: List of Ja-pan

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Yakitate!! japan volume 11 cover.jpg

message: The Main Characters section on this article contains almost exactly the same info as on the List of Yakitate!! Japan characters, it should be cut down in here, otherwise the list article is redundant.
I also removed the listings of the other characters, they're just summaries and the info can again be found in the list article. Ninja neko 18:45, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Characters here and the List of Characters 

message: No offense , but whoever did the Trivia section really has bad grammar. And you need to change it. You know who you are.-Zeta26 14:30, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bad Grammar 

message: The official English language release of the manga by Viz translates the phrase 太陽の手 (taiyō no te) as "Hands of the Sun" so this should be the translation used in the article as well.
You can see this for yourself by reading the English release, by reading the blurb from Vol. 3 found here http://www.viz.com/products/products.php?product_id=5988, or by reading about it in the following review
http://www.animeondvd.com/reviews2/manga/manga.php?manga_view=2336  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.28.6.245 (talk) 20:02, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: This is a translation problem, as the word "sun" can be translated into Japanese as 日 (hi), which also means day, and 太陽 (taiyō). When using the translation "Hands of the Sun," one may also translate this back to 日の手; whereas 太陽 (taiyō) may also be translated as "solar" when used as a "pronoun." --Chininazu12 06:25, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  As you have not replied, I'm reverting this back. By the way, considering your argument is correct, you should also change "Solar Gauntlets" and "Blizzard / Snowstorm Hands" in a similar manner. --Chininazu12 00:29, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Translation of 太陽の手, taiyō no te 

message: I noticed there's a game on Yakitate Japan. Should it be added to this article? (there is minimal connections to the actual manga's plot based on the IGN page information though) See: http://ds.ign.com/objects/755/755982.html
Noian (talk) 22:27, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Yakitate Japan Game? 

message: It was noticed that Azuma Kazuma often ends sentences with either "ja" or "inja" even when other Japanese people would not do it (just comparing way of speech to other personages in this and many other animes).
If anyone knows Japanese language enough, could you please tell if this is some specifics of his speech or not?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.122.111.177 (talk) 21:08, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Specifics of Azuma Kazuma Japanese spoken language 

message: Ja-pan #2 received a passing mention in a New York Times article on rice cooker versatility:
Ms. Tokuji has even baked a sweet, buttery loaf of bread in her rice cooker, based on a recipe from a popular television show about a superhero's quest to develop a "national loaf" for Japan. "It took all day, but it was very interesting," she said.
Flatscan (talk) 02:55, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ja-pan #2 mentioned in ''New York Times'' 

message: *CBB: manga vol. 24 manga #26
--KrebMarkt (talk) 22:15, 30 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Review(s)