Anyone who travels frequently most likely encounters issues due to the language barrier that separates many countries from each other. While some languages are similar and you can “get by” with ...

Any fan of old-school RPG games will know that Japan has some of the best out there. There is, however, one small problem. Namely, that very few of them ever saw an official release in the West and, ...

Viz Media has unveiled a new manga reading app that aims to bring English translations of Japanese comics to readers the same day the originals are released in Japan with the intent of curbing online ...

Google Translate recently updated its iOS and Android applications, bringing Japanese-to-English and English-to-Japanese translation support to its augmented reality "Word Lens" feature. Thanks to the ...

Google Translate. And it's not that it's poor, it's actually really quite amazing. Rather, it's just that English and Japanese are very far apart in how they are constructed, so it's hard to create an ...

A new book is out that looks at the history of Japanese-to-English video game translations, from the early years of gaming to today. This Be Book Bad Translation Video Games celebrates some of the ...

This still drives me nuts. Companies are willing to spend thousands, if not millions of yen on large signs and upgrading websites etc, . . . . but not willing to spend significantly less than than on ...