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Comprehensive Japanese translation and interpretation services

From business documents to technical manuals, our professional Japanese translators and interpreters deliver accurate, culturally-appropriate translations across all industries and document types.

Spoken worldwide by approximately 127 million people, Japanese ranks as one of the ten most widely spoken languages in the world. Speakers of Japanese, however, are almost all native speakers, living either in Japan or in minority communities in the USA and South America. One of the great challenges in learning Japanese are its four different systems of writing: Besides a series of Chinese characters, or so-called kanji, there are also the hiragana and katakana scripts that derive from kanji. In addition, the Latin alphabet (Romaji) is also used. These various writing systems are applied in parallel for different purposes. Foreign words, for example, are usually written in katakana. For this reason, many businesses and institutions rely on professional Japanese translators and interpreters who can navigate these complex writing systems.

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Another characteristic of the Japanese language is that—unlike most Indo-European languages—it is an agglutinative language. The central feature of agglutinative languages is the use of affixes that are attached to terms and signal the particular grammatical function (i.e., case, number, gender) of a noun or verb. Unlike fusional languages such as German or Latin, agglutinative languages use one affix per grammatical category. As such, concepts that are expressed in a complete sentence in German can often be formulated in a single word in Japanese. This makes the role of experienced Japanese Translators and Interpreters Even more important when ensuring accuracy in legal, medical, or technical documents.

Because of these linguistic complexities, accurate communication often requires the support of highly trained Japanese translators and interpreters, who not only understand the language but also the cultural nuances that influence meaning.