diff --git a/translators/Japan Times Online.js b/translators/Japan Times Online.js
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+{
+	"translatorID":"b56d756e-934e-4b46-bc58-d61dccc9f32f",
+	"translatorType":4,
+	"label":"Japan Times Online",
+	"creator":"Frank Bennett",
+	"target":"^http://(?:www|search)\\.japantimes\\.co\\.jp/(?:cgi-bin|gsearch|features|entertainment|sports|life|news)",
+	"minVersion":"2.0b7",
+	"maxVersion":"",
+	"priority":100,
+	"inRepository":true,
+	"lastUpdated":"2009-01-23 02:17:09"
+}
+
+// #################################
+// #### Local utility functions ####
+// #################################
+
+var itemRe = new RegExp('^http://search\.japantimes\.co\.jp/cgi-bin/[a-z]{2}[0-9]{8}[a-z0-9]{2}\.html');
+
+var getResolver = function (doc) {
+	var namespace, resolver;
+	namespace = doc.documentElement.namespaceURI;
+	if (namespace) {
+		resolver = function(prefix) {
+			if (prefix == 'x') {
+				return namespace;
+			} else {
+				return null;
+			}
+		};
+	} else {
+		resolver = null;
+	}
+	return resolver;
+};
+
+var getTagContent = function (txt, attribute, value) {
+	var ret, m, rex;
+	ret = false;
+	rex = RegExp("<[^>]*" + attribute + "=\"" + value + "\"[^>]*>([^<]*)<");
+	m = rex.exec(txt);
+	if (m) {
+		ret = m[1];
+	}
+	return ret;
+}
+
+var getTagsWithAttributeAndContent = function (txt, tag, attribute) {
+	var ret, pos, len, lst, m, tagsrex, attribrex;
+	ret = {};
+	tagsrex = RegExp("(<" + tag + "(?: [^>]*>|>)|</" + tag+ ">)");
+	attribrex = RegExp(' ' + attribute + '="([^"]+)"');
+	lst = txt.split(tagsrex);
+	if (lst.length > 1) {
+		len = lst.length;
+		for (pos=1; pos < len; pos += 4) {
+			if (pos < (len - 2) &&  lst[pos + 2] == ("</" + tag + ">")) {
+				m = lst[pos].match(attribrex);
+				if (m) {
+					if (!itemRe.exec(m[1])) {
+						continue;
+					}
+					var title = lst[pos + 1];
+					title = title.replace(/\|.*/, "").replace(/<[^>]+>/g, "");;
+					ret[m[1]] = Zotero.Utilities.unescapeHTML(title);
+				}
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	return ret;
+}
+
+// #########################
+// ##### API functions #####
+// #########################
+
+var detectWeb = function (doc, url) {
+	if (itemRe.test(doc.location.href)) {
+		return "newspaperArticle";
+	} else {
+		return "multiple";
+	}
+}
+
+var doWeb = function (doc, url) {
+	var type, nsResolver, availableItems, xpath, found, nodes, headline, pos, myurl, m, items;
+	nsResolver = getResolver(doc);
+	type = detectWeb(doc, url);
+	if (type === "multiple") {
+		availableItems = {};
+		if (url.match(/\/gsearch\//)) {
+			//
+			// For Google SafeSearch.  Thanks, guys, it was an entertaining afternoon.
+			//
+			xpath = '//iframe[@name="googleSearchFrame"]';
+			var iframe = doc.evaluate(xpath, doc, nsResolver, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null).iterateNext();
+			var address = iframe.src;
+			var page = Zotero.Utilities.retrieveSource(address);
+			availableItems = getTagsWithAttributeAndContent(page, "a", "href");
+		} else {
+			xpath = '//a[contains(@href, "cgi-bin")]';
+			nodes = doc.evaluate(xpath, doc, nsResolver, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null);
+			found = nodes.iterateNext();
+			while (found) {
+				if (!itemRe.test(found)) {
+					found = nodes.iterateNext();
+					continue;
+				}
+				headline = found.text;
+				//
+				// Some headlines have a weird structure that yields two
+				// entries, the second of which is blank.  Nothing is lost
+				// by this construct.
+				//
+				if (!headline.replace("\n", "")) {
+					found = nodes.iterateNext();
+					continue;
+				}
+				headline = headline.replace("\u00a0", " ", "g").replace("\n", " ", "g");
+				headline = headline.replace(/^\s+/, "").replace(/\s+$/, "").replace(/\s+/g, " ");
+				availableItems[found.href] = headline;
+				found = nodes.iterateNext();
+			}
+		}
+		if (availableItems.__count__) {
+			items = Zotero.selectItems(availableItems);
+			for (myurl in items) {
+				if (items.hasOwnProperty(myurl)) {
+					scrapeAndParse(myurl);
+				}
+			}
+		}
+	} else if (type === "newspaperArticle") {
+		scrapeAndParse(url);
+	}
+};
+
+// ############################
+// ##### Scraper function #####
+// ############################
+
+var scrapeAndParse = function (url) {
+	var item, mytxt, m, val;
+	item = new Zotero.Item("newspaperArticle");
+
+	mytxt = Zotero.Utilities.retrieveSource(url);
+
+	item.publicationTitle = "Japan Times Online";
+	item.url = url;
+	val = getTagContent(mytxt, "id", "date");
+	if (val) {
+		item.date = val;
+	}
+	val = getTagContent(mytxt, "id", "headline");
+	if (val) {
+		item.title = val;
+	}
+	item.attachments.push({title:"Japan Times Online snapshot", mimeType:"text/html", url:url});
+	item.complete();
+};
diff --git a/translators/Mainichi Daily News.js b/translators/Mainichi Daily News.js
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+++ b/translators/Mainichi Daily News.js	
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+{
+	"translatorID":"b56f856e-934e-4b46-bc58-d61dccc9f32f",
+	"translatorType":4,
+	"label":"Mainichi Daily News",
+	"creator":"Frank Bennett",
+	"target":"^http://(?:search\\.)*mdn\\.mainichi\\.jp/(?:$|result\?|mdnnews/|perspectives/|features/|arts/|travel/)",
+	"minVersion":"2.0b7",
+	"maxVersion":"",
+	"priority":100,
+	"inRepository":true,
+	"lastUpdated":"2009-01-23 02:17:09"
+}
+
+// #################################
+// #### Local utility functions ####
+// #################################
+
+var itemRe = new RegExp('.*/([0-9]{8})[a-z]{1}[0-9]{1}[a-z]{1}[0-9]{2}[a-z]{1}[0-9]{1}[a-z]{2}[0-9]{6}c\.html');
+
+var getResolver = function (doc) {
+	var namespace, resolver;
+	namespace = doc.documentElement.namespaceURI;
+	if (namespace) {
+		resolver = function(prefix) {
+			if (prefix == 'x') {
+				return namespace;
+			} else {
+				return null;
+			}
+		};
+	} else {
+		resolver = null;
+	}
+	return resolver;
+};
+
+var cleanUp = function (str) {
+	var ret;
+	ret = str.replace("\u00a0", " ", "g").replace("\n", " ", "g");
+	ret = ret.replace(/^\s+/, "").replace(/\s+$/, "").replace(/\s+/g, " ");
+	ret = ret.replace(/\|.*/, "").replace(/<[^>]+>/g, "");;
+	ret = Zotero.Utilities.unescapeHTML(ret);
+	return ret;
+}
+
+
+// #########################
+// ##### API functions #####
+// #########################
+
+var detectWeb = function (doc, url) {
+	if (itemRe.test(doc.location.href)) {
+		return "newspaperArticle";
+	} else {
+		return "multiple";
+	}
+}
+
+var doWeb = function (doc, url) {
+	var type, nsResolver, availableItems, xpath, found, nodes, headline, pos, myurl, m, items, title;
+	nsResolver = getResolver(doc);
+	type = detectWeb(doc, url);
+	if (type === "multiple") {
+		availableItems = {};
+		if (url.match(/^http:\/\/search\.mdn\.mainichi\.jp\/result\?/)){
+			xpath = '//div[@class="ResultTitle"]/a[contains(@href, "mdn.mainichi.jp")]';
+		} else {
+			xpath = '//h2[@class="NewsTitle"]/a[@href]|//ul[@class="Mark"]/li/a[@href]';
+		}
+		nodes = doc.evaluate(xpath, doc, nsResolver, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null);
+		found = nodes.iterateNext();
+		while (found) {
+			if (!itemRe.test(found.href)) {
+				found = nodes.iterateNext();
+				continue;
+			}
+			headline = found.textContent;
+			headline = cleanUp(headline);
+			availableItems[found.href] = headline;
+			found = nodes.iterateNext();
+		}
+		if (availableItems.__count__) {
+			items = Zotero.selectItems(availableItems);
+			for (myurl in items) {
+				if (items.hasOwnProperty(myurl)) {
+					scrapeAndParse(myurl, availableItems[myurl]);
+				}
+			}
+		}
+	} else if (type === "newspaperArticle") {
+		xpath = '//h2[@class="NewsTitle"]';
+		nodes = doc.evaluate(xpath, doc, nsResolver, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null);
+		title = nodes.iterateNext();
+		if (title) {
+			title = cleanUp(title.textContent);
+			scrapeAndParse(url, title);
+		}
+	}
+};
+
+// ############################
+// ##### Scraper function #####
+// ############################
+
+var scrapeAndParse = function (url, title) {
+	var item, mytxt, m, val;
+	item = new Zotero.Item("newspaperArticle");
+	item.title = title;
+	item.publicationTitle = "Mainichi Daily News";
+	item.edition = "online edition";
+	item.url = url;
+	m = itemRe.exec(url);
+	if (m) {
+		var year = m[1].slice(0,4);
+		var month = m[1].slice(4,6);
+		var day = m[1].slice(6,8);
+		item.date = [year, month, day].join("-");
+	}
+	item.attachments.push({title:"Mainichi Daily News snapshot", mimeType:"text/html", url:url});
+	item.complete();
+};