Japanese Translation Services

As a Marketing Manager, promoting retail products to the Japanese, I often look for Japanese translation services providers for my collaterals.  Over the years, I have come to know more about getting a good Japanese translation services provider as mention below.

My first assignment was to get “anyone who can provide good Japanese translation services”, said my boss. It sounded easy…but it was a real challenge to find such a person. I finally found a Chinese who said he could do Japanese translation services and convinced me that Japanese and Chinese were similar. Really? I later learnt that wasn’t entirely true at all. Although, the Japanese language uses Chinese characters, Japanese has different sets of grammar rules e.g. there are many types of conjugations for different types of verbs. As you would have guessed, the Japanese translation services were of poor quality and sounded unnatural to my Japanese customers.

For the following assignment, I thought I was better prepared. This time, I engaged a native to provide the Japanese translation services. That was also a disaster, he hadn’t the slightest clue as to what I wanted! After going through several Japanese translation services provider, I observed that most Japanese are not sufficiently proficient in English. This is simply because very few Japanese speak languages other than Japanese, even up to today! So, I decided to engage the professional Japanese translation services company. It was a relieved to hear from my counterpart in Japan that the Japanese translation services were well provided. He was also kind to add a few comments to help me understand why.

Apparently, the excellent quality of the Japanese translation services seems to suggest that thoughtful considerations were taken to include the context of Japanese culture in providing the Japanese translation services. I was also pleased to hear that the translation was flawless and the intended message was well executed by the Japanese translation services provider.

As the volume of work increased with our expanded customer base and widen marketing campaigns we continued to use our trusted Japanese translation services company in Malaysia. Here are some of the reasons.

Only a well established translation services company in Malaysia provide better Japanese translation services because they:

1)      have more experienced & English proficient Japanese translators

2)      have a larger pool of native Japanese translators

3)      have proofreaders and editors who are able to minimise translation errors

4)      can handle larger volumes of work

5)      can deliver express jobs

6)      can do other language pairs other than with English (including Japanese to Malay translation)

Engaging a Japanesetranslation services provider was a painful learning process for me and I hope that no one would have to go through the same situation that I had to.