Japanese translation...

Friend-of-a-friend Mary Jacobi writes, after translating that Japanese web-review of Barry Trotter and the Whatever-They're-Calling-It-In-Japan: "Oh the people in Japan like it a lot, some of them read it on the bus, others read it tateyomi (standing and reading in bkstore) Japan's national pastime, and they all said that it was omoshiroi (funny, interesting) and they laughed (warai) a lot!" Of course I'm very pleased--I have always considered myself a humble soldier in the service of omoshiroi.