| Japanese to English: Statue of the Colonel Back in One Piece | |
Source text - Japanese
NNN:３月１１日２００９年
カーネル人形、上半身と下半身が“合体”
８５年のプロ野球・阪神タイガーズ優勝の際、大阪市の道頓堀川に投げ込まれ、行方がわからなくなっていた「ケンタッキー・フライド・チキン」のカネールサンダース人形の上半身部分が１０日に見つかり、１１日の捜索で下半身と右手部分も引き揚げられた。また、上半身と下半身は１１日正午前に“合体”した。
上半身は１０日、投げ入られた地点から約２５０メートル下流で見つかり、下半身と右手は１１日午前９時前からダイバーが潜って見つけた。左手やメガネなどは見つかっていない。
阪神タイガーズの成績低迷は「カーネル人形ののろい」とまでささやかれてきた。「日本ケンタッキー・フライド・チキン」は「人形を阪神甲子園球場に設置してファンに見てもらえれば」と話している。
| Translation - English
“Statue of the Colonel Back in One Piece.”
(Nippon News Network 2009)
A statue of Kentucky Fried Chicken mascot Colonel Sanders, missing since being thrown into Osaka’s Dotonbori River in 1985 following a championship win by the city’s Hanshin Tigers baseball club, has been recovered. The statue’s torso was discovered on the eleventh, with subsequent searches leading to the recovery of its lower body and right arm on the 11th. As of the eleventh, the pieces have been “reunited.”
The upper body was found on March 10th, some 250 meters from the spot where the statue was originally hurled into the river. Divers located the right arm and lower body around 9am on the 11th. But the statue’s left arm and eyeglasses remain missing.
In recent years the statue has been at the center of whispers explaining the Tigers’ scattered fortunes as part of a “Curse of the Colonel.” Commenting on the statue’s recovery, a representative of Kentucky Fried Chicken of Japan suggested, “I think we’d like to see him in [Tigers Home Stadium] Koshien Park. That way all the fans will know he’s there.”
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