Suddenly, have you heard of the "Tombori River Cruise"? If you visit Dotonbori in Minami, Osaka, you may have seen the yellow boats coming and going in Dotonbori. (Our company headquarters is also located in Osaka City ^ ^) This tour allows you to enjoy the view from the Dotonbori River, starting from Tombori River Walk and cruising through 8 bridges from Nihonbashi to Dotonbori Bridge, and then to Fukasato Bridge. Now, Osaka tourism...

Introduction Since 2015, with the development of technology neural networks in the AI industry, a new automated machine translation called Neural Machine Translation (NMT for short) has emerged. Although NMT is only a few years old, it is a newer technology than the traditional Rule Base Machine Translation (RBMT) and Statistical Machine Translat...

Before coming into contact with another culture, we are often anxious and sometimes have preconceived notions about it. However, when we are exposed to a new culture, we may have a moment of doubt and think, "Oh, really? and you feel the joy of having gained knowledge of a different culture. It is important to seek encounters in order to be exposed to different cultures with different values, traditions, and customs, and to respect each other, and to be blown by such a refreshing breeze. Japan is known as a globalized society. ...

With the increasing number of foreign visitors to Japan, multilingualization of websites is becoming an essential tool to attract foreign tourists. I am in charge of the development and technology of "My Site Translation," an automatic website translation service at Kodensha. In this blog, I would like to introduce the higher version "My Site Translation Premium," which was press-released in the summer of 2018, with some development secrets. My Site Translation" and "My Site Translation...