PROGRESS REPORT AND ACCESS ANALYSIS

I would like to report the latest status of ongoing projects.

I, as a leader of French translation project, am devoting my maximal available time to the translation work into French.

Frankly, the pace of progress is relatively slow in recent days, but I am trying not to stop the continuous progress and I plan to make drastic progress when I have little more available time.

Meanwhile, I am keeping close contact with members of Shogi Association in France directed by Mr. Fabien Osmont and we could receive a candidacy from one of the members for the translation of one chapter. I will maintain this close contact with them and try to make progress on the project by team work.

Here, I would like to disclose the distribution of the accesses to the web releasing the translation into English (Yoshiharu Habu and Modern Shogi / FrontPage). The data consists of total 1878 accesses obtained by Google Analytics between 05/25/2009-06/15/2009. The result can be slightly different from your expectancy, so please give a glimpse.

As I am in charge of supervision on new project inauguration and its progress, I tried to find remarkable points from this point of view.
The first remark is that the Russian is the only language in top 10 countries with no ongoing project. As checked carefully the data from Russia, we notice the low rate of new visits and we can imagine that the same person interested strongly in this project frequents the site regularly. Then, I am confident that there is certain possibility of the inauguration of the translation project into Russian if I am able to contact the people like this person.
The second remark is Austria. The rate of new visits is also low for this country, so we can suppose the existence of a certain number of the fervent Shogi lovers. Thankfully, they access sometimes to this blog. I think that it will be a great support for translation project into German if I succeed to contact them.
The third remark is countries on or around African continent like Malawi, Seychelles. This phenomenon seems to be the outcome of the direct e-mail to these countries' government. Iam very glad of this outcome because, I am especially interested in promotion of Shogi (as Japanese culture) against small countries without great political and economic power. I have deep respect on local culture of these countries and I have strong intention of promoting cultural exchange between these countries and Japan.

The information circulation at international level seems to expand largely beyond our imagination by using our subtle handling, which is a very interesting phenomenon. From now on too, I plan to elaborate diverse actions to reinforce this information circulation at the international level.

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