Japanese translation service

We translate over 80 language combinations, including Japanese to English and English to Japanese. In fact, English to Japanese translations are among our top 14 requested language services. Our Japanese translation service is engaged by Government agencies, businesses and individuals across Australia and worldwide.

Japanese is spoken by the 120 million inhabitants of Japan and by people of Japanese origin living in Australia, Hawaii and North and South America. The Japanese language is written with a combination of three different types of scripts: modified Chinese characters called kanji, and two syllabic scripts made up of modified Chinese characters, hiragana and katakana. The Latin alphabet is also often used in modern Japanese, especially for company names and logos, advertising and when entering Japanese text into a computer.

Numerous Japanese dialects are spoken throughout the four main islands, the smaller islands of Okinawa and other Japanese islands. Some dialects are virtually incomprehensible to the speakers of other dialects, requiring the use of the standard dialect for communication. The two dialect families with the largest number of speakers are the dialect spoken in and around Tokyo, which is equivalent to the "common" dialect, and the dialects of the Kansai region spoken in western Japan, in cities such as Kyoto, Osaka, and Kobe. Due to the spread of the common dialect through television and radio, most Japanese outside the Tokyo region speak the common dialect as well as the dialect of their area.

We have at your disposal a team of highly qualified, experienced and specialised Japanese translators. We offer a comprehensive Japanese translation service, covering a variety of specialist fields including scientific, technical, legal, commercial and /promotional, etc. We also offer typesetting and printing services for brochures, Power Point Presentations and other professionally produced materials.

Our Japanese translators are located both in Australia and overseas. We assign projects to Japanese translators according to key factors such as accreditation, area of expertise and the translator’s country of residence, which is particularly important for commercial/promotional translations. We ensure that a Japanese translation will read as well or even better than the source document by carefully assigning the most appropriate translator to the project; fluency in the latest cultural and business terminology for your target audience is essential. All of our Japanese translators are certified in their native language and hold current membership of professional associations such as NAATI. Furthermore, all of our Japanese translations undergo proofreading to ensure accuracy.

Japanese to English and English to Japanese typesetting considerations

When translating from one language to another, the volume of text will either increase or decrease. This expansion and contraction will vary depending upon subject matter. English to Japanese translation often results in a 25-60% decrease in text. Accordingly, Japanese to English translations will decrease the volume of text by approximately 25-60%.

Japanese is traditionally written vertically, with the lines starting from the right side of the page. Japanese can also be written horizontally from the top left hand side, as with the English language. For the translation of promotional material, such as brochures, we tend to use horizontal copy flow. There are no other significant typesetting considerations to be made when preparing copy for translation from English to Japanese.

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