I started translating it two weeks ago on the bus on the way home from a PHP conference in Kagawa. I had intended to publish it immediately, but I was busy with work last week and ended up making a lot of people wait.
The PHP Conference Kagawa, which will be held from today, will be held in the park of the Takamatsu Castle ruins. This building was once the residence of the shogun family that ruled Kagawa.
It's not uncommon for conferences to provide food and drinks to attendees, but PHP Conference Kagawa will be serving unlimited udon noodles. Udon is a common noodle in Japan, but the people of Kagawa are known to be particularly udon fanatics.
Why wasn't personal handy-phone PHP? That's because Konosuke Matsushita, a legendary businessman who is revered in Japan, published a magazine called “PHP”, so he refrained from using it.
As we all know, PHP:Hypertext Preprocessor became popular in Japan around 2000, so reservations became meaningless. 😜
Many people may have never heard of the place names Shikoku Island or Kagawa. Shikoku is the fourth largest island in mainland Japan. Kagawa is a prefecture located in the northeast. This area is especially famous for noodles called "Udon".
Is there anyone in Kobe/Osaka/Tokyo who can hook me up with a Rakuten Mobile physical or eSIM? Probably impossible since I don't have a Japanese ID card, but would be cool to test all four mobile networks here.
@ian@nauleyco@chatii@Girgias@tekimen@KentarouTakeda
Docomo and KDDI do not offer services for travelers, but several MVNO companies seem to sell prepaid SIM cards. These tend to be slower than the official services, but the network backend is the same.