User blog comment:Turambar1/Volume 1 English Translation/@comment-3301441-20110120001534

Kohta Hirano - Kouta Hirano was probably a bad choice.

Self-Defense Force - Special Defense Force? Whaaaa? It's the SELF-Defense Force. This is just outright wrong.

Sojutsu Club - Spear Club gets no complaints from me, because sojutsu is just the Japanese style of spear fighting. It's highly unlikely any other specific style will ever come up, and I doubt most people even know what sojutsu is anyway.

Wakisaka's teaching subject can actually be translated to something like "national language teacher," so "grammar teacher" isn't so bad. I think the official anime subs translated it as "Japanese teacher," which is probably more in line with how an English speaker would call the subject. It doesn't matter so much though.

Saimon - Zaimon uhhh. The kanji used isn't actually a real name, so the pronunciation isn't definite. It's what's called an "ateji" meaning the kanji are chosen solely for their readings to match a word that otherwise wouldn't have kanji, IE for foreign words or words that only have hiragana. BUT in this case, since this is an obvious reference to the actor Simon Pegg, not some mystery man named Zaimon, we can safely assume that Saimon was likely the intended reading.