About Japanese and Japanese translation

Japanese (日本語, Nihongo IPA: [nʲihoŋɡo] is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is related to the Japonic-Ryukyuan languages. Its relationships with other languages remain undemonstrated. It is an agglutinative language and is distinguished by a complex system of honorifics reflecting the hierarchical nature of Japanese society, with verb forms and particular vocabulary to indicate the relative status of the speaker, the listener, and a person mentioned in conversation (regardless of their presence). The sound inventory of Japanese is relatively small, and it has a lexically distinct pitch-accent system. It is a mora-timed language.

The Japanese language is written with a combination of three different types of scripts: modified Chinese characters called (漢字), and two syllabic scripts made up of modified Chinese characters, hiragana (平仮名) and katakana (片仮名). The Latin alphabet, rōmaji (ローマ字), is also often used in modern Japanese, especially for company names and logos, advertising, and when entering Japanese text into a computer. Western style Arabic numerals are generally used for numbers, but traditional Sino-Japanese numerals are also commonplace.

Japanese vocabulary has been heavily influenced by loanwords from other languages. A vast number of words were borrowed from Chinese, or created from Chinese models, over a period of at least 1,500 years. Since the late 19th century, Japanese has borrowed a considerable number of words from Indo-European languages, primarily English. Because of the special trade relationship between Japan and first Portugal in the 16th century, and then mainly the Netherlands in the 17th century, Portuguese and Dutch have also been influential.

Professional Japanese translations mainly include Japanese-Chinese translation, Japanese-English translation, Japanese-Korean translation, Japanese-German translation, Japanese-Russian translation, Japanese-Spanish translation, Japanese-Portuguese translation, Japanese-Italian translation, Japanese-Arabic translation, etc.

Why use Findhow for Japanese translation services?

Japanese translation is one of the key languages of expertise at Findhow.

* Our translators are professionally qualified linguists and have extensive experience in Japanese.

* Our translators work only in subjects relevant to their qualifications and experience and are rigorously tested.

* Our translators work exclusively into their native language.

* Japanese translation services can be provided in any document format including the Microsoft Office suite, Adobe FrameMaker, Quark XPress, Adobe PDF, Adobe Illustrator, XML, InterLeaf and PageMaker.

* Our use of translation memory software can guarantee consistency of terminology, reduce lead times and costs of your translation, as well as help build up a company-specific terminology list.

Our Japanese translation services are respected globally for tight turnaround times, accuracy and our professional experience in a wide range of software formats. Findhow has over 10-year track record in providing technical translation services in all major world languages besides Japanese, such as Chinese, English, Japanese, German, French, Russian, Korean, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Arabic, Hindi, Thai, Vietnamese, Dutch, Burmese, etc.

We can provide professional Japanese translation and intepreting services in many countries or cities worldwide such as Hongkong, Beijing Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Changchun, New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Tokyo, Seoul etc.

We specialise in providing Japanese translation services in a range of technical fields such as Aviation translation, Biological translation, Chemical translation, Construction translation, Electrical translation, Energy translation, Engineering translation, IT translation, Machinery translation, Medical translation, Patent translation, Pharmaceutical translation, Steel translation, Telecom translation, Textile translation, etc.

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