Jun Araki’s Blog

In Japan, most of schools and companies commence their new year on April 1st. So the Japanese often make a clean start and get a little serious on that day. Partially because of that, some Japanese people don’t recall that the day is April Fools’ Day.

But in other countries, particularly in the United States, there seems a stronger tendency that lots of companies publish their own April Fools’ Day news on the Internet, and people play them on friends and colleagues. For example, some of them compete with one another and give rank to those jokes on the Internet.

Some Google’s hoaxes sound funny, and I wonder if they really enjoy and only half believe those. I will write down a link to Wikipedia which I referred to.

• Google’s hoaxes – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I am Jun Araki from Japan, and have been posting blogs in Japanese for several months. I have now launched this blog in English, which is not just a translation version of my Japanese blog. In this blog, I would like to write about my random thoughts and some memos for personal use, regardless of the contents of the Japanese blog. I may write some articles with the identical contents in the both languages. I am not a very good writer in English yet, but hope to further improve my writing from now on.

If you want to see my Japanese blog, please access the following URL:
http://junaraki.net/blog . As for technical matters, I set up two WordPress systems for English and Japanese on one server and domain, sharing a single MySQL database.