Japanese is the sixth most spoken language in the world: the population of Japan is about 120 million. But Japanese is not spoken outside Japan in any particular country or community except where there are concentrated Japanese-speaking communities such as in San Francisco, working there especially in software development, and in the film production industry in and around Hollywood. Also Japanese speakers occur in small pockets in the UK and across the globe mainly centred in and around Japanese car plants.
Given the different character set and unique pronunciation, the marketing of imported media assets domestically in Japan requires translation and often re-working. Likewise Japanese-sourced media assets have to be developed often in two versions, one for the domestic market and the other for export. The Japanese media sector has led the market: think Nintendo for software games. Japan has tended to concentrate on the hardware aspects and innovation by Japanese manufacturers is legend: Sony, Hitachi, Toshiba, NEC, and Mitsubishi. Through Sony, Japan has become one of the world’s leading movie-makers.
Total Language Solutions translates all types of media assets and related material in all types of software into or out of Japanese. Modern media is largely responsible for the disappearance of local spoken dialects after the second world war, as national television services made the language of Tokyo standard throughout the country.
Translation projects undertaken include web site content, sales and marketing material, documentation requirements for engineering and manufacturing into and out of Japanese as well as including media assets.
Total Language Solutions are translation specialists in DTP, print ready and electronic forms of material, integrating text and diagrams and more besides into and out of Japanese.
Total Language Solutions are translation experts in the relevance of text, drawings, colours and layout presentation and localisation to meet consumer expectations and norms, without causing offence.
Our language translation prices are from the translation service to or from English and is based on price per 1,000 words (pro rata).
| Albanian | £95 | Estonian | £95 | Icelandic | £98 | Norwegian | £95 | Swahili | £110 |
| Arabic | £110 | Farsi | £110 | Indonesian | £100 | Polish | £95 | Swedish | £95 |
| Bengali | £105 | Finnish | £95 | Italian | £85 | Portuguese | £85 | Tagalog | £105 |
| Bulgarian | £95 | French | £85 | Japanese | £105 | Punjabi | £105 | Tamil | £105 |
| Cambodian | £110 | German | £90 | Korean | £105 | Rumanian | £95 | Thai | £110 |
| Chinese | £95 | Greek | £100 | Kurdish | £100 | Russian | £95 | Turkish | £95 |
| Croatian | £95 | Gujarati | £105 | Latvian | £95 | Serbian | £95 | Ukrainian | £95 |
| Czech | £95 | Hebrew | £110 | Lithuanian | £95 | Slovak | £95 | Urdu | £105 |
| Danish | £98 | Hindi | £100 | Macedonian | £95 | Slovene | £95 | Vietnamese | £110 |
| Dutch | £90 | Hungarian | £90 | Malaysian | £95 | Spanish | £85 | Welsh | £85 |
Total Language Solutions Limited
Hampton House
23 Longbrook Street
Exeter
Devon EX4 6AD UK
Free phone 0800 6 121 151
Phone 01392 277882
Registered Number (England and Wales)
At the above address: 03933805
Special Introductory Offer To New Clients: 12.5% Discount (min. order £500)
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