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Here are some thoughts to share from the daily life of a translator...

運営しているクリエイター: Translation Service S. Arai

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Some Thoughts on International Women's Day

The #translation #industry is one of the few trades to have a reverse #gender #gap. There are more women than men in our industry. The 2022 statistics from the Japan Translation Federation (sorry in Japanese only) also confirm this fact. B

Sometimes translators must play God

The best part of the book turned out to be the translator’s note. 📖 That’s what happened to me when I read “The Cat Who Save Books” by Sosuke Natsukawa translated by Louise Heal Kawai into English. Every now and then, I read English or Ge

Female Speech vs. Male Speech in Japanese

Striving for gender neutrality is becoming more and more in vogue. “Gender-inclusive language” is also a topic in Japanese. Spoken Japanese has both a so-called woman's language (on-na kotoba) and a man's language (otoko kotoba). With a ge

Quick Gender Transition through Googling

♂ What an unjustified complaint! The client wrongly accused me of translating Ms XX as Mr XX. My translation was Smith-sama (様). On top of that, the client expressed her concern that the address in the translation differed from that in the