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Translation specialists and software engineers working in tandem.

Software localization process requires both technical specialty and translation skills. To solve theses critical elements of localization, we separate the process into translation and review, and more than two specialists in different fields are always working together.

1. Based on the analysis of the whole documents, the assignments to each specialist are decided and the glossary is fixed.
2. The translators change the English documents into Japanese.
3. The software engineers review the translation.
4. The editor checks the whole, unifying style and terms and adjusting the form.

Skillful combination of translation and review creates a seamless recreation of the original, that reflecting the culture and business practices of the target market, and also enable rapid delivery to the clients.

Supported Software

• Microsoft Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP/Vista/2010
• Microsoft Word 97/2000/2003/2007/2010
• Microsoft Excel 97/2000/2003/2007/2010
• Microsoft PowerPoint 97/2000/2003/2010
• Microsoft Visio 2002
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2008
• Adobe FrameMaker 5.5.3/6.0/7.0/8.0
• Adobe FrameMaker+SGML 6.0
• Adobe InDesign 4.0/CS2/CS3/CS6
• Adobe PageMaker 6.5/7.0
• Adobe Acrobat 7/8/9/X
• Adobe Illustrator 9.0/CS/CS2/CS3
• Adobe Photoshop 7.0
• Just Systems Ichitaro 2008
• Macromedia FreeHand MX
• SDL Trados 2006 (Workbench 7.5.0.756, TagEditor 7.5.0.756)
• Alchemy CATALYST 8 Translator/Lite
• SLDX 2006
• Idiom World Server 9
• Logoport 2.79

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Discover why major venders have chosen us for their localization needs......

In technical translation, translators must be good at three areas; foreign language (English in this case), local language (Japanese), and technical knowledge (about computer). In general, people are apt to think foreign language ability is the most important in translation. Although it is indispensable, we think that more important for translators is to understand deeply about products to translate, and to explain it clearly with correct words of target language.

In translation between far different languages, such as English and Japanese, technical knowledge is especially important. Many sentences of natural language are ambiguous, even in technical documentation. If the translation is to be done between two similar languages, such as English and French, we can naturally preserve ambiguity of source language and yield technical judgement. But such way of solution is not available in English-to-Japanese translation. In latter case, translators are forced to choose one description from several mutually exclusive interpretations of source language, depending on their knowledge of target product. In fact, there are so many translation houses in Japan, but quite a few Localization houses.

So we recommend to select computer software company, such as Tama Software, to let translate computer documents.