Thread:Ragnarok6354/@comment-25689453-20141122065646/@comment-11148831-20141130024819

Eh. I've read in books that Katakana is specifically used to transcribe foreign words into Japanese and/or writing loan words. But yes. They also do use it for emphasis like you said.

And yea. I just said English because it's the most common language used over here.

But I don't know how this is going to help us here.

(Also, from what I know, "ペキン" or "Peking" is an older English spelling for Beijing and is still used for romanization of Beijing.)