TOKYO — Donald Keene, a longtime Columbia University professor who was a giant in the field of Japanese literature and translation, died Sunday in Tokyo, the city that he had made his home. He was 96.

Japanese-Arabic translator Rana Seif feels driven to bring contemporary Japanese novels by women writers to readers in the Middle East, saying that the problems women face are similar in Japan and ...

PITTSFIELD — Six years ago, Jenny McKeon entered an online contest that would jump-start her dream career as a Japanese manga translator. But, McKeon wasn't always quite sure where her love for ...

The Japanese government's intellectual property export strategy, known as the "Cool Japan" strategy, proposed its latest amendment in 2024. It identified translation as the primary obstacle in ...

Few topics are quite as divisive these days as trying to use AI to replace a human doing professional work. Some say taking carbon-based lifeforms out of the equation makes work processes faster, more ...