I discovered much to my surprise, that when I logged onto the Internet with my laptop, and google popped up, that everything was in Japanese. I had presumed that somehow my American computer would keep me hooked up with American websites. What a dork I am!
Anyway, after much trickery and thankfully some degree of being able to remember where certain options are on the page, I was able to guess click my way to some answers and finally was able to find and set as my default page, http://www.google.com/intl/en/ so that I can not only see the google homepage in English, but can also run my searches in English. Some things I found set my home page to English, but when I would go to my account, everything was in Japanese again... What a mess that was!
Anyway, the link which I'll put again should work for anyone who finds themselves in another country and suddenly your computer is speaking another language.
http://www.google.com/intl/en/
Anyway, after much trickery and thankfully some degree of being able to remember where certain options are on the page, I was able to guess click my way to some answers and finally was able to find and set as my default page, http://www.google.com/intl/en/ so that I can not only see the google homepage in English, but can also run my searches in English. Some things I found set my home page to English, but when I would go to my account, everything was in Japanese again... What a mess that was!
Anyway, the link which I'll put again should work for anyone who finds themselves in another country and suddenly your computer is speaking another language.
http://www.google.com/intl/en/
WOAH, Johnny! At least if it was French or Spanish, or something, you'd be able to kind-of recognize and translate it. Japanese looks... Wow. Difficult.
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