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The Tokyo Olympics - Then and Now / 東京五輪 今昔物語

"Sazae-san” is a famous #comic series that began in Japan in 1946 (!) and it is still running on TV today. The everyday life of a Japanese housewife and her family is depicted with humour. You can take a time trip back to the hype days in J

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When You Wish Upon a Star…

In the middle of a year, do your New Year's resolutions seem to be a distant past? Well, we Japanese have a second chance: on Tanabata Day also known as the Star Festival. It’s a romantic legend – two star-crossed lovers, the Cowherd and th

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Free Online Course on Post-Editing

An associate sent me a few basic questions on post-editing (PE) after reading my last post on the Japanese translation market. Understandably, my associate seems to feel threatened by the growing use of machine translation (MT). But not al

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Overview of Translation Industry in Japan (Trade Survey)

A quick report on the webinar on 9 June 2021 by the JTF (Japanese Translation Federation) on their survey of the translation and interpreting industry in Japan conducted in autumn of last year: The survey comes in two parts: LSPs and trans

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