About seiyaku.com

What is seiyaku?

What is 'seiyaku'? Well, it's just the Japanese word for 'vow' or 'oath'; an earnest and solemn promise we promise never to break.

How is	Sei	ya	ku pronounced?
Like this:	Sei as in 'Say that you love me.'
		ya as in 'Yahoo!'
			ku as in 'That's cool.'

This site was launched in 2002 and contains an eclectic collection of articles we've felt like publishing. More and more original articles are coming in from people all over the world. We're sifting through these and adding them to the site as quickly as possible.

So bookmark the home page, check back from time to time, and see what's new and what's updated.

Who are we?

Seiyaku articles have been contributed by numerous authors from around the world. The editor is Paul Harding. Validation and research is conducted by Sarah Boynton. The webmaster is Gerald Harding.

Where are we?

Our contributors are truly from all over the world and yet we're as close to you as the screen you are looking at now.

Contact us

We welcome comments, requests for additions, modifications and deletions. We normally reply within a day of your email. Criticism is also welcome, if helpful. (Trolls will not be fed.) If you use a spam-filter, please permit emails from seiyaku.com before you email us

Sources

All sources are mentioned when known. If you own copyright to anything on this site and are not acknowledged, please contact us.

Articles

Articles are published on this site in good faith and we take no responsible for their accuracy. We will, however, correct any errors or omissions that are pointed out to us.

Anyone may submit articles for publishing on this website but we reserve the right to edit and modify articles. For example, duplicated or redundant text may be removed.

See Publication guidelines.

Writing style

We try to be consistent.

For example, we spell "internet" with a lowercase "i". We no longer capitalise "email" or "french fries", and big as it is, "the sky" is not capitalised either.

Yes, we spelt "capitalise" with "s". This site has an international readership so we bow to the majority native-English speakers in the world and mainly use British English.

Citations

You are welcome to cite any page on seiyaku.com but you may find referencing this site as your only source is not acceptable for your institution. They may rule it does not qualify as an academically valid source.

Each page on this site is subject to continual change with the aim of improving usefulness and verifiability. Consequently, at any one time there can be no guarantee of the content's accuracy. Facts do not change, but interpretations and opinions are bound to be modified as the site matures.

You are advised not to depend on this website as your sole source of information.

Searching this website

If you cannot find what you are looking for using the Google search box at the top of this page, try our deeper search.

Advertising

We do not endorse any product or service that might be advertised on this site.

With the exception of Google ads, the general site policy is to not carry direct advertisements (commercial or non-commercial) or URL links (one-way or reciprocal). If you write to us asking to place an advert or link on this site, you will probably not get a reply.

If you don't like a particular advert on this site

We have a little bit of control over the advertisements that Google selects for this site. If you don't like a particular advert, let us know, and we can probably prevent it from appearing again.

Donations

We do not solicit donations. However, from time to time people have asked how they could send a small contribution for website maintenance, and we've opened a PayPal account for this purpose. See supporting seiyaku.