In this article, several aspects to Japanese that act as stumbling blocks for achieving accurate machine translation, for examples, politeness levels, subject ambiguity, and culturally inferred meanings, are explained.

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This is an issue for the Japanese translator as it is often necessary to “Romanize” Japanese words when translating into English. This article looks at the key differences between the “Romaji” systems.

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There is often confusion regarding how to express numbers when translating into languages such as English in which numbers can be depicted both in numerals and words.

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Punctuation was not commonly used in Japan until the 19th Century, but is now an integral part of written Japanese. Find out how knowledge of Japanese punctuation affects the quality of your translation projects.

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That’s easy – The English Japanese translation of the product description was stilted and unnatural, so obviously it could not have been a local vendor. Japanese vendors would never use ‘good enough’ Japanese translation because they know they’d lose customers.”

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Part 3 of the article series Translation: Are You Costing Your Company Money? looks at what happens when companies over emphasize translation and localization costs.

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Myth has it Coca-Cola entered the Chinese market with “ko-ka-ko-la” which, amongst a number of things, also means “bite the wax tadpole”. The truth is somewhat less clear

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If you've undertaken a translation or localization project, even a small project, without the aid of a project management system, you may be guilty of contributing to translation errors that have cost your company in lost revenue.

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There really is no need for companies to lose revenue due to something that can be as easily eliminated as translation errors. Find out how right here!

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Did the US lanuch a devastating war that ultimately claimed over 1 million lives, based on faulty intelligence compounded by a series of mistranslations?

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