Japanese

The degree of formality adopted in Japanese is extremely important: translators and interpreters should be made aware of the nature of the group/s to be targeted.

Transliteration: company and individuals names should be transliterated using the phonetic script Katakana. There may be more than one correct way of transliterating a name into Japanese.

It is often considered cool or modern to retain some English within Japanese translations. An editor should be allowed to exercise his/her discretion in this regard.

Japanese is written using Kanji (Chinese characters) and Hiragana and Katakana (the two Japanese 'alphabets').

Rubi is Hiragana written above/below or on the right of a Kanji character, as a guide to its pronunciation. It is often used for Kanji which are likely to be unfamiliar to the target audience of a publication. It is rarely necessary to use Rubi on localized materials.

Japanese may be written left-to-right or top-to-bottom. Newspapers and literature use the latter, and magazines may use either. Localised materials (excluding literature) should almost always be written left-to-right.

Graphic input requires Japanese Quark.

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