I've gotta question for from any of you folks in a Japanese university.
Why is it standard for Japanese papers to have randomly numbered footnotes/endnotes?
That is, a page 1 the first footnote is [4] and the second footnote will be [6]. In front of me I have a paper to review/edit from Todai and the first page starts with [14], [16] and [17]. On page two [3] and [4] are mentioned but [1] is ofter never mentioned anywhere.
This happens to me on almost every Japanese paper in English I've seen in the past 20 years. WTF, is counting that difficult in Japanese!?
(I get a blank stare and No-Commento whenever I ask this question of the authors.)