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Why is Japanese-English translation more difficult than other language pairs?

Industry trends, Japan, Native speakers, Translation /

People unfamiliar with the Japanese language (or with the translation industry in general) often tend to assume that translation between any two languages poses roughly the same degree of a challenge to the translator. This is far from being the case, however, and the Japanese-English language pair must rank as one of the most difficult […]

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The good, the bad and the ugly—ensuring quality in Japanese‑to‑English translation

Checking, Industry trends, Japan, Native speakers, Quality assurance /

In Japan, with its huge Japanese‑to‑English translation market, the caveat that a translator should only translate into his or her own native language goes largely ignored, and a huge volume of Japanese material ends up being translated by native speakers of Japanese—often with dire results.

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