Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - In this Dec. 28, 2015, file photo, Donald Keene speaks during an interview at his home in Tokyo. Keene, a giant in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Established by the Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper in 1948, the Yomiuri Prize is considered one of the most prestigious Japanese literary prizes. This year marked the event's 76th ceremony, and it ...

TOKYO — Finding a cab driver who speaks English here can be a challenge. Fortunately, there's an app for that. #TalkingTech is in Japan this week, where Google Maps and Translate apps have been ...

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 ...

The Japanese government's intellectual property export strategy, known as the "Cool Japan" strategy, proposed its latest amendment in 2024. It identified translation as the primary obstacle in ...