Wishing you many happy events and happenings this year, I thought about the English translation of "Kagamiwari," a traditional Japanese event. Kagamiwari" is the breaking of the lid of a sake barrel with a wooden mallet at a feast. However, it is a figurative expression since the sake barrel is broken, not the actual mirror. So, "kagamiwari" = "sake barrel cracking. ...

As a developer of machine translation engines, we collect bilingual data in a number of fields. Recently, neural network translation engines, which are artificial intelligence (AI) systems, have become mainstream. By learning a large amount of bilingual data, translation engines can be developed to increase translation accuracy. To increase the accuracy of translation in the tourism field, bilingual data in the tourism field is required, and to increase the accuracy of translation in the legal field, bilingual data in the legal field is required...

Korean is said to be a relatively easy-to-understand language among foreign languages, with many similarities in word order and grammar to Japanese. 2020 is said to be the fourth Korean boom, and Korean is becoming increasingly popular among high school students. In this article, we would like to introduce some Korean words whose word order differs from that of Japanese kanji. There are many words in Korean that originate from Kanji characters. Examples of the same word order as in Japanese are 회...

Happy New Year! Our company started business today, Monday, January 4. We will continue to distribute our language-related BLOG and SNS for your enjoyment this year. For the first issue of 2021, we will start with a story about the Japanese language. While the number of tourists coming to Japan from abroad has decreased dramatically, there are still many students studying and working in Japan, so the theme of this issue is "Gai...