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Old Apr 7, 2012, 05:44 AM
Xenofan 29A Xenofan 29A is offline
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In Japan, they are taught that things written in katakana (the character set used to write foreign words, among other things) should be translated to caps, because katakana are also used for emphasis. That's probably part of it.
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