Outdated teaching methods and the rise of language translation apps have made most Japanese less inclined to learn English, ...

TOKYO -- Japan's Pocketalk, a developer of mobile translation devices, is launching a smartphone-based service in February that simultaneously translates Japanese into as many as 75 languages ...

Artificial intelligence (AI), which is rapidly evolving, has also expanded into the field of foreign language translation. With the use of smartphone translation apps and portable speech translation ...

As languages grow further apart in terms of their similarities, translator systems often become less accurate in producing accurate and grammatical translations. An example of this is in regards to ...

The Japanese government's intellectual property export strategy, known as the "Cool Japan" strategy, proposed its latest amendment in 2024. It identified translation as the primary obstacle in ...

Translator can recognize a bevy of languages, but Japanese is only the 10th language its speech translation feature supports. That's right -- it now reads the resulting Japanese words or phrases out ...

On March 1, 2010, Hiroshi Mikitani, the founder and CEO of Rakuten, a Japan-based e-retailer, announced that henceforth English would be the official language of the company’s 10,000 employees.

“It didn’t matter if the sign said ‘flesh’ or ‘fresh’ or ‘meat,’” recalls Dougill, a professor at Ryukoku University, who has researched the use of English in Japan. “It was just there to catch people ...

Teaching English is a popular and relatively easy way for English speakers to move to Japan and many other countries. However, not just any native English speaker is qualified to teach English. Japan ...