Ki-84 Pilot's Manual - Translation Help Needed

[nrshida]

Thanks to the efforts of FTJR, we have a copy of the original Ki-84 Pilot's Manual. This was forwarded to him by the museum which now houses the only remaining existing aircraft.

Slight snag, it's completely written in Japanese (obviously).

We are wondering if there are any Japanese speaking (/reading) players, partners of players, associates or aquaintances, colleagues etcetera who would be able to help with a translation.

It would be quite a bit of work, it is 53 pages long including some diagrams.

I can use an OCR program to pull out the text as it is a bit messy. However the online translators are about as useful as you might expect:-



要 作全開
部滑ス 閉
下 油 ル / ェ
薗素 ゴ 五<
< . t . .
如 / ヲ ニ
シ主特操
う 宇キ聾胴琴2云奪 \雲滑 £重墓ぅ
d /` ニ \ だ / 二 聖 ざ
商 ・翼《竿華三琴と
岡荷 r ソ補/ U
; 全蔑茸高テ写> 葦
/ 閏 / 器ニ リ ム メ ニ
d ・ 開葎装 。被厚シ
火揖成器過滑
壁坤ル ・ 事油
前タ D配 : タ
方ン 管冷ン
ニ ク 等却 ク
7 ハ ヨ 器


Results in:-


Oil [ru] under main point work full opening section sliding [su] closing/[e] Sono element [go] five < < . t. 如/[wonishi] main special virtuous space/large house [ki] deaf torso koto 2 云 奪 \ cloud sliding POUND heavily grave d/`[ni] \ is,/two saintly [za] trade wing << the pole bloom three koto and Oka load r Soviet assistant/U; All the 蔑 mushroom high [te] copying > Reed/intercalary/vessel [nirimumeni] d opening 葎 equipment. [ta] D distribution before the suffering thick [shi] fire 揖 forming vessel passing sliding wall 坤 [ru] thing oil: 却 [ku] 7 [hayo] vessel such as [ta] one [n] tube cold [nniku


Hmm. Not so useful.


We thought about breaking the work into sections to minimise the effort if we found more than one volunteer. I'd be more than happy to do the typesetting and cleaning up the diagrams for an English version. Anyone willing and able to help with the translation?

[Bruv119]

Rolex or Mitsu spring to my mind regarding translations.   Maybe shoot them a PM regarding this thread.   

[pervert]

I read through them shida, its instructons on how to setup a Sony Bravia 

[nrshida]

Thank fellas, will send PMs.

That's good Perv, maybe it will also help me set the timer on my video 

All help appreciated. Volunteers could also PM me or FTJR if they wish to.

[Karnak]

Note, "Mitsu" and "Mitsu." are the same person, but I think he no longer had the password when he came back, so the current one is "Mitsu." with the period.

[nrshida]

Ah thank you, I sent the PM to Mitsu no full stop 

[Ruah]

is that how it was written?

I do a fair bit of translation and work with early 20th c. stuff a fair bit, but it seems a bit weird in the way its broken up.

and yah, the Kamikaze museum has some interesting archives.

[EagleDNY]

Just somebody please translate the part about what speeds the flaps can be operated at - and then get the data to Hitech!

[nrshida]

is that how it was written?

I do a fair bit of translation and work with early 20th c. stuff a fair bit, but it seems a bit weird in the way its broken up.

and yah, the Kamikaze museum has some interesting archives.

Can you help?

[pipz]

I read through them shida, its instructons on how to setup a Sony Bravia 

LOL!!!!!!! horrible 

[Mitsu.]

I can't read it, the letter is broken.

[Scherf]

The OCR has not given you the correct characters - there are a lot of garbage symbols in there with no meaning.

You'd do better to post scans of the actual pages, especially since 1940s-vintage kanji tend to differ from their modern counterparts.

At least post the first few pages, which will give you some idea of how the docco is broken up, probably no need to translate each and every character.

[nrshida]

Okay, I'll get to work. Hold the phone...

[nrshida]

First six pages:-













Are they too small?

[Rolex]

I see this thread now, thanks to nrshida's PM. I'll try to help with things if I have some time - a commodity I have a limited supply of right now.   

The second page is upside down but we can invert it after saving it. Not a big thing.

We can also Ctrl + to zoom in, but some of the characters get fuzzy doing that. As our good friend Scherf says, the old kanji is different and seeing the strokes of a kanji is important. (Trivia time: You look up Kanji in dictionaries by counting the number of strokes comprising the kanji, plus some other things like radicals, but the stroke count is important.)

I'm sure Mitsu san will help us with any mistakes. Onegaishimasu...