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Junglecity Network, Inc. and Seattle Post-Intelligencer to Produce Mariners News and Features Online in Japanese
SEATTLE, April 6, 2004 - Junglecity Network, Inc., an online media company, and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer's seattlepi.com website today announced that the two companies are launching joint production of Mariners news, Q&A's and player profiles in Japanese.
Under the joint production, much Mariners news, most Q&As and many player profiles published on www.seattlepi.com are translated into Japanese and published by Junglecity Network, Inc. for www.seattlepi.com. To view the P-I's website in Japanese, click on the button in the upper right corner with Japanese writing at: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/baseball/.
"By teaming up with the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Junglecity.com can now deliver the latest and most detailed information on the Seattle Mariners to Japanese Internet users," said Takumi Ono, president of Junglecity Network, Inc. "Seattle Post-Intelligencer saw the need for it and quickly responded in the best way, which is launching this new Japanese website."
"It's great to work on this project locally with the talented and dedicated Mariners fans at Junglecity," Lee Rozen, general manager of seattlepi.com, said. gI really think it gives us a high quality translation and attention to detail in building the pages for the Web site."
The content on the Japanese pages is updated daily on weekdays.
For more information on Junglecity.com, please visit the following:
Junglecity.com: The No.1
resource on Seattle for Japanese Around the World
http://www.junglecity.com/english/index.htm
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, whose roots in Seattle extend back to 1863, is part of the Hearst Corp., one of the largest diversified communications companies. Hearst's major interests include magazine, newspaper and business publishing, cable networks, television and radio broadcasting, Internet businesses, TV production and distribution, newspaper features distribution, and real estate.
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Contacts:
Takumi Ono, 206-285-2054, press@junglecity.com
Lee Rozen, 206-448-8307, lrozen@seattlepi.com


