NTT DoCoMo wants travelers to Japan to say more than just “sayonara” when they hear Japanese. The mobile carrier is introducing an app that can instantly translate spoken Japanese into English and ...

Google Translate could already translate Japanese text into English from a captured photo, but now the app skips a step, letting you point your camera at signs, menus and other things that might ...

Menu and prices hanging out from a Yakitori Bar in Ginza neighborhood, Tokyo, Japan. Learning a new language is hard. And if there’s a new alphabet involved—like there is with Japanese for ...

Anyone who travels frequently most likely encounters issues due to the language barrier that separates many countries from each other. While some languages are similar and you can “get by” with ...

Google Translate recently updated its iOS and Android applications, bringing Japanese-to-English and English-to-Japanese translation support to its augmented reality "Word Lens" feature. Thanks to the ...

The Word Lens feature of the Google Translate app now supports Japanese, allowing users to hover the camera of their mobile device over Japanese text and receive an English translation in return on ...

English-speaking travelers seeking speedy translations of Japanese text are in luck today, with the news that the Google Translate app for Android and iOS now lets you hover your smartphone in front ...

Google Translates’s augmented reality feature, Word Lens, now works with Japanese. As with other supported languages, you simply point your smartphone camera at a Japanese sign, notice, menu or ...

Japanese tech firm Mantra released an AI program that translates Japanese comics or manga into English. It aims to facilitate the distribution of manga titles worldwide by reducing translation time.