Fishing for shinko, which are baby ikanago sand eels, began in the Harima-nada Sea in Hyogo Prefecture on March 12. Shinko, ...

Eleven approximately 8-meter-long kagotaimatsu torches made an appearance in the omizutori ceremony to herald the arrival of ...

Saito Mariko, received the Yomiuri Prize for Literature, announced the Literature Translation Institute of Korea on Thursday.

Japanese translator Saito Mariko has won the Research and Translation category at the 76th Yomiuri Literary Awards for her ...

A Japanese company called Logbar has created a gadget that translates your words instantly so it could make travelling the world much easier. The device is called "ili" and at the moment it only ...

March 3 was Girl's Day in Japan. At the World Heritage site Shimogamo Shrine in Kyoto, there was a doll floating event. It is ...

At NHK STRL, we have been researching and developing a Japanese-English AI (artificial intelligence) translation system for news in order to support the production of English news for NHK’s ...

This eleven-part series excavates, examines, and explains dozens of tiny nuanced differences between the game's first English translation and its original Japanese script. This is not a ...

Researchers in Japan said they'd developed an AI system that could understand the emotional state of chickens. The study, which was led by University of Tokyo professor Adrian David Cheok, has yet ...

Manga is a 14 billion-dollar industry for Japan, but it would be even bigger if it weren't for online sites offering stolen versions of the comics. A Tokyo start-up hopes artificial intelligence ...

An automatic translation machine that can handle 12 ... we have had trouble dealing with inquiries about lost items from non-Japanese passengers” along the Oedo Line, said a station staff ...