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 ...

Translation technology is advancing by leaps and bounds, leveraging the power of artificial intelligence. Japan's tourism sector is among those benefiting from AI. Seibu Railway has installed a device ...

Thanks to some severely poor planning, my trip to Japan last week ended up being one more day than I had expected. And so my friend and I found ourselves stranded in Nagoya, a city in the center of ...

Translator Yukio Kakuchi is seen in Tokyo's Kita Ward in February 2022. (Mainichi/Tadahiko Mori) TOKYO -- "Translations are original, independent pieces." So said Yukio Kakuchi, who for decades has ...

Japanese-Arabic translator Rana Seif feels driven to bring contemporary Japanese novels by women writers to readers in the Middle East, saying that the problems women face are similar in Japan and ...