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INTERPRETERS

Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies / Regional voices: Chubu
Apr 10, 2020
As pandemic hits conferences, Aichi firm launches remote interpretation services
As the business environment continues to be affected by the spread of COVID-19, an industrial painting firm based in Anjo, Aichi Prefecture, has begun offering Japanese-English simultaneous interpretation services remotely using teleconference systems.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 9, 2020
Prefectures in Japan face lack of volunteer interpreters for disasters
Several prefectural governments around Japan have raised concerns about a shortage of volunteer interpreters and translators to support foreign residents and tourists during disasters, after making limited progress with addressing the problem, a new survey has shown.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jan 20, 2020
In first, Japan court uses remote link to sentence Philippine nationals amid decline in number of interpreters
A video link system between two different courts was used for interpretation for the first time in Japan on Monday, to hand down rulings to foreign defendants, in an effort to compensate as the number of court interpreters shrinks.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 4, 2019
One interpreter making a world of difference for Georgian rugby team in Japan
Interpreters have been provided for almost every team competing at the 2019 Rugby World Cup, but in a country with a very limited number of Georgian speakers, a 28-year-old man is supporting the squad all by himself.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Sep 8, 2017
Tokyo University of Foreign Studies to help Japan's prosecutors fill interpreter shortage
Japan's legal system is so short on interpreters that prosecutors have asked a Tokyo-based university to steer new graduates its way to help out.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jul 26, 2017
Japan's prisons set to upgrade foreign-language translation system for inmates
Non-Japanese prison inmates nationwide will soon have greater access to translation services with the launch in November of a system that uses video phones and smart tablets.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 20, 2017
Kansai's volunteer guides get language badges
A tourism board in western Japan has begun distributing badges to volunteer guides to indicate their foreign language capabilities to better serve visitors from overseas.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jun 2, 2017
Justice seen hamstrung as experts say Japan court interpreters should be licensed
Courts are supposed to be bastions of justice. But equal justice may be thwarted for some defendants owing to language barriers.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health / A MATTER OF HEALTH
Apr 19, 2017
Language barriers at Japanese medical institutions put foreign patients at risk: expert
Here's a little-known, unnerving truth about health care in Japan: for non-Japanese, the death rate is higher than that for Japanese.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 17, 2017
Japan’s interpreters struggle to make sense of 'Trumpese'
As political leaders in Japan pay close attention to how U.S. President Donald Trump will go in office, so, too, are interpreters who have had a nightmarish experience translating his disjointed speeches.
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Jan 23, 2016
Interpreters continue to play important role in NPB
If I had known then what I know now, I would have taken Spanish in high school instead of French. It is not that I remember any of the French (I failed the course), but there are very few — if any — professional ballplayers whose native language is Francais. Even a little Español would come in handy today in covering Major League Baseball or foreign players in Nihongo-land.
JAPAN
Jan 15, 2015
Trial classes for 2020 Games volunteers planned in Hachioji, Koganei
Tokyo will launch training seminars on a trial basis next month for volunteers interested in providing linguistic help to visitors at the 2020 Olympics.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 7, 2014
Interpreters with knowledge of Japan needed, Filipino caregiver says
Paladero Mon Angelo, a licensed Filipino care worker, won a Japanese speech contest this summer that emphasized the need for interpreters with a special knowledge of Japan's health care system.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Nov 14, 2014
Medical interpreters discuss goal for 2020 Olympics
Giving patients equal access to medical treatment is easier said than done, especially when foreign patients are involved. And with Japan set to host the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics in 2020, addressing the challenge has taken on greater significance.
JAPAN / Society
Jun 20, 2014
Language professionals call for court interpreter qualification regime
Legal and linguistic professionals think a qualification system is needed for court interpreters to weed out incompetent ones who might be doing more harm than good, a recent survey says.
Japan Times
JAPAN
May 28, 2014
Interpreter hopes to improve China relations
A Japanese interpreter who worked on a series of delicate Japan-China meetings says he hopes his language skills can help to improve relations at a time when bilateral ties are pained by a territorial dispute and by tension over conflicting readings of history.
JAPAN
Feb 7, 2014
Health minister looks to bolster hospital translation services
To make Japan's medical facilities more accessible to foreigners ahead of the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics, the health ministry is looking to bolster multilingual services at hospitals, an official said Friday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 26, 2013
Booklet portrays kids who serve as medical interpreters for parents
Non-Japanese children who served as translators for parents not so proficient in Japanese when it came time to communicating with doctors are the topic of a booklet compiled by Medint, a Kobe-based association and research group that provides medical interpretation services.
EDITORIALS
Apr 8, 2013
Court interpreting could be better
The conviction of a man from the U.S. for killing an Irish exchange student has put on trial the quality of interpretation for non-Japanese suspects.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Mar 22, 2013
Trial translation faults irk lay judges
The conviction in Tokyo of a U.S. minor for the slaying of an Irish woman once again highlights Japan's lack of a national accreditation system for court interpreters, after the lay judges complained about misinterpretations.

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