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, ...

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 ...

RetroArch is one of the most impressive tools for classic gaming. It is a front-end for launching multiple different emulators, but it has grown into so much more. A good example of that is the ...

Recent years have seen a proliferation of English-language announcements and signage in the Shinkansen trains and railway stations throughout Japan, in part due to rapidly growing tourisms from abroad ...

Considerable advances have been made in machine translation (see below) that utilizes artificial intelligence, to the point that it now, in some fields, provides the average English skill level of a ...

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 ...

Whether it be on shirts, official forms, or advertisements, Japan has plenty of examples of things getting lost in Japanese to English translation. While there's certainly nothing wrong with a ...

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 ...

As blogger Muzuhashi notes: rude words are funny... but for some reason, accidentally rude words are even funnier. Muzuhashi is an Englishman working as a teacher in Japan, and writes on his latest ...