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 ...

The Word Lens feature of the Google Translate app now supports Japanese, allowing users to hover the camera of their mobile device over Japanese text and receive an English translation in return on ...

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, ...

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 ...

When Japan’s new National Stadium was unveiled last month, visitors were greeted with several examples of oddly worded English on the signage there: “Hello, Our Stadium,” “Joho no Niwa” and “Please ...

Google Translate. And it's not that it's poor, it's actually really quite amazing. Rather, it's just that English and Japanese are very far apart in how they are constructed, so it's hard to create an ...

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 ...

Comics 20 years into its run, hit manga Vinland Saga announces the publication date of its final chapter – and it's super soon Anime Shows I have a new top anime to watch in 2026 as the adaptation for ...

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 ...