Gigazine (jp) is now too much article translated from HN headline. It seems to re-translate to English. Not much worth to read. Its quality isn't good.

There's a disclaimer about the stories being machine translated, but I'd still like to know how "Elon Musk" became "Earon Mask."[1]

[1] https://gigazine.net/gsc_news/en/20230529-elon-musk-cut-twit...

Japanese is limited in what phonetic sounds can be written, so I'm guessing that's just a direct translation of what his name becomes in Japanese

Ah, yes that makes sense. I wasn't considering that the translation would have been from a completely different alphabet.

How popular is this website in Japan?