2009 Yokohama World Table Tennis Championship

If you are a table tennis fanatic you probably already know that the 2009 World Table Tennis Championship is being held in Yokohama Arena from Tuesday April 28th to May 5th in Yokohama Arena. More than a thousand people from 150 countries will be participating in this event which is being held in Japan for the 5th time since its inception. It is the first time to be held in Yokohama though.

If you are interested you can find out more details on the official web site which provides information in English too. When I say English, I mean that in the broadest sense of the word. Below is a little of what you can expect to read.

OK, so I picked out the worst of it but it does make for an amusing read.

About assistance by the auditorium

We decided about support regulation about everybody’s support of an audience in the hall of the world table tennis championship.
Please everybody who comes to the hall must understand this respect, and assist in the player hard.

* Protect rally sponsor’s corporate name and the notice right of the logo in the hall.
* Do suitable assistance for world championship.

1. The notice of the banner and the signboard is prohibited.
2. The use of assistance flag that a corporate name, the school name, and the group name in the seat enter is prohibited.
3. The national flag is prohibited from projecting. But, the flag shake it by the hand is not restricted.
4. The whistle and drum is not restricted. However, obey instructions obediently when judging the chief hearing examiner hinders the game, and noting it.
5. The stick balloon is not restricted. However, the one that corporate names other than the rally sponsor entered is not admitted.