==Kokkai== Reasoning for move (from Diet_of_Japan), we should call things by their Official name if possible and let redirects handle the other names. That's all. Emperorbma :I did the move because it's better than a cut and paste, but I disagree with the move; most English speakers do not know the term Kokkai. See also Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(use_English). - Hephaestos 05:07 23 Jul 2003 (UTC) ::Hum, I have already moved it. I feel that it should be at Kokkai since the system supports redirecting, and people will know that they are where they want to be. We should be as official as possible. Besides Duma and Knesset are in their own articles and most English speakers just call those the Russian and Israeli Parliaments respectively. Emperorbma 05:12 23 Jul 2003 (UTC) Google disagrees with that assessment; I know Google's full of misinformation, but it's good at telling "what people call things" (even if what they call things is erroneous) because after all that's exactly what it indexes. So I tried some searches with the "English only" option turned on. *"israeli parliament" (in quotes): 11,600; knesset: 83,800 *"russian parliament" (in quotes): 58,600; duma: 213,000 :on the other hand, *"japanese diet" (in quotes): 9,410; kokkai: 2,110 Hephaestos 05:25 23 Jul 2003 (UTC) : *Sigh* Oh well... you can't win 'em all... OK, I'll put it back. Sorry about all this. I don't suppose it'd hurt to leave it here? Emperorbma ::Actually I'd like to wait for an opinion from someone besides just the two of us; let's leave it here for the time being - Hephaestos 05:35 23 Jul 2003 (UTC) :::I have no problem with that. I am really sorry about all this anyway. I don't see how it'd hurt either way, I just feel it looks better in it's native tongue. ^_^;; Emperorbma :::I can think of another major arguement for Kokkai over Diet_of_Japan. Diet also means food, and some people could confuse "diet of Japan" with the "Diet of Japan". (Yes, it is a silly thing, but some people could) Emperorbma ::::Oh it's no bother really. And I got to thinking "Japanese Diet" comes up with hits on the more mundane English version of "diet" so that count might be way off. - Hephaestos 05:46 23 Jul 2003 (UTC) :::::4220 out of 5590 results pertain to food (I used "food" as an additional search word). Interesting, this doth a quandary pose. Emperorbma ::::::I'm tempted to go with whatever the Kokkai/Diet itself uses in its official English-language publications. I have no idea how to find out what that is though. - Hephaestos 06:01 23 Jul 2003 (UTC) :::::::The National Diet Library (English) says "National Diet" in it's title, but I am not sure that's what they use as an official name. :::::::Google turns up 14,300 results for "National Diet" -food (I looked through 5 pages, all were pertinent) I don't know but maybe "Japanese National Diet" or somesuch could work? Or we could keep it here. Maybe we should have a WikiVote from passersby to test the waters first. Emperorbma OK, I've searched and "Diet of Japan" still works (as a WikiGo to redirect) here, so for the time being we're safe while we poll the guests. P.S. "Diet of japan" didn't work, but that's to be expected since the 'pedia is case sensitive. Emperorbma 06:50 23 Jul 2003 (UTC) I don't know what's the matter here. Diet of Japan is an official name just like Self-Defense_Force is. Don't bother with ''Japanese'' official name since this is an English edition. -- Taku *OK, I concede that it is probably better to put the article here, but what happened to the Kanji in the article? -- Emperorbma 02:05, 20 Nov 2003 (UTC) :P.S. I like the changes... I readded the 国会, though. -- Emperorbma 02:13, 20 Nov 2003 (UTC) No idea what happend to kanji. I also changed the first sence a bit. We really don't have to say the title is an English and a translation from Japanese language because there is no alternative term for Diet of Japan in English language. -- Taku 03:16, Nov 20, 2003 (UTC) == German version == I decided to add a German version of this article, but I'm afraid my German has deteriorated more than I'd thought. The article's there, but it may not be up to par, so I'd appreciate any help that a more proficient German speaker could offer. :Well, as a German native speaker I might be able to help. My problem is, that the German Wikipedia contains maybe 20% of the material on Japan to be found in English Wikipedia. I don't know where to start translating. And I'm still busy with the Library of Congress material... it all depends how busy I'll be at university in the next months. -- Mkill 22:42, 25 October 2005 (UTC) ==Diet / diet / parliament== #why not call the article Parliament_of_Japan like others in Category:Parliaments_by_country . #shouldn't the term diet be lower case if it is standing alone? Tobias Conradi (Talk) 16:41, 24 October 2005 (UTC) :I would suggest just leaving the article where it is. Lots and lots of articles link to here, and unless you have a bot at hand, it's going to be a real hassle to update all the links. -- Mkill 22:42, 25 October 2005 (UTC)