Can anyone identify these 6 Chinese characters?

[zenonithus]

Hello,

 

I am trying to turn this image of chinese characters (I think it is a mixture of simplified and traditional) into text format. So far I have got good results with OCR. Though I am having trouble figuring out a few characters. Can anyone help with this?

 

接???品堂業部

東京都世田谷区玉?台

大阪            名古屋

?台                 ?島

 

Here is the image:

 

 

 

 

[skylee]

You do realise that this is Japanese, don't you (i.e. not a mixture of simplified and traditional Chinese characters)?

接着剤製品営業部

東京都世田谷区玉川台

大阪 名古屋

仙台 広島

[renzhe]

It is Japanese. 仙台 is Sendai, 広島 is Hiroshima. The missing characters are: 着剤製 川 仙 広

EDIT: skylee beat me to it

[zenonithus]

Oh really?? Ha! I had no idea! They look so similar, no wonder the OCR was having trouble. I better check my other translations. Thanks guys for clearing that up and filling out the characters

[Kobo-Daishi]

The giveaway that it's Japanese is 広. The variant for 廣.

 

Simplified Chinese uses 广 and traditional Chinese uses 廣. The Japanese have chosen the variant 広 as their standard.

 

Same with 営.

Traditional Chinese uses 營 and simplified Chinese uses 营.

 

Kobo.

[MPhillips]

Also, it appears that Chinese 接着剂 translates to English "adhesive", a slightly higher register term than the Japanese. In Jse it's the everyday word for "glue". One more really tiny difference-- the Japanese simplification of 劑 has two more strokes than Chinese Simplified(剂).

[zenonithus]

Thanks for explaining that Kobo. I was thinking some of the characters looked like Japanese like this 川. Interesting to know the differences between simplified and traditional characters

[renzhe]

川 is not simplified, it is an ancient character used in the name of the Sichuan province -- among others.