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Search and Search Tips
On each page of the Japan Guide, there is a google search box to help
you find information quicker.
To begin a search, enter a query into the search box and hit the "enter" key or click "Find". Google will return
only web pages that contain all the words in your query, so it is easy to refine or narrow your search
by adding addition descriptive words.
Choosing your keywords
When using the search box, please keep the following points in mind:
- Try alternative keywords, using the most obvious (to you) first.
For example if you are trying to locate a temple such as Hozo-ji enter
"Hozo-ji" or
"Hozoji" or "Hozoji temple".
- Terminology differs from place to place. Just as a Buddhist temple cannot by definition be a shrine (and
vice versa), you sometimes need to think about keywords. The file for Meiji Jingu for example does not include the word
temple anywhere in the text or meta-tags.
- Capitalization - Don't worry about it. Google will treat all keywords as lower case.
- "Americanisms" - The page is deliberately written to be dialect neutral - for example while the spellings
in the English language version have largely been converted to the North American usage, the grammar and terminology is
intended to be accessible to other native English speakers and to EFL/ESL speakers from other cultures. Similarly the
Spanish version is written with the objective of covering the regional variations in Spanish usage.ie: We have been
careful to define words that have different meaning depending
on your place of origin. Entering some British English spellings - for example "programme" instead of the American
"program" can be interesting - sometimes yielding a list of links to files in the German and French versions for
instance, but on the whole google is reasonably intuitive.
Of course, if you still can't find what you need, or have detailed questions not covered in the
FAQ, then its time to write to us. We have a
large team of caffeine fuelled humans here in Okazaki ready to assist.
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