I've watched as much anime as the next guy, but even I need a Japanese dictionary to figure out what those crazy robots are saying sometimes. Enter Jisho, a Japanese/English dictionary for Mac OS X 10 ...

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 ...

The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation Translation Prize shortlist includes works by the writers Kawakami Mieko, Tawada Yōko, and Dazai Osamu. All the Lovers in the Night, the third in a well-received ...

Donald Keene, whose translations of Japanese literature into English and prodigious academic output helped define the study of the subject and made him a celebrity in Japan, died on Sunday in Tokyo.