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The Public Phone
In last March, PJ Transervices was proud to be part of the SSFF&ASIA 2018 Short Movie Asian Festival representing Mr.Yurugu Matsumoto's short-movie called " The Public Phone / 公衆電話 " as the official localization service / support partner.
The Public Phone
The translation and localization industry has seen some impressive innovations over the past decade, but in many ways, it has remained stubbornly resistant to change.**
There are many different types of translation API options starting with the regular Machine Translation APIs being widely and constantly promotted and further improved in their core-substance in the digital market place.
This type of API is very limited to just one thing – enabling you to push content into an automatic translation tool, after which the translated content is pushed back to your target destination. For example, one may find that type of API being offered for Google Translate and Bing Translator (or even Weblio).
Indeed, I would then to agree with the idea that this kind of API is that it’s easy to access, widely used, and frequently updated. The bad thing about it is that it’s usefulness is very limited, because the quality of the output is usually so poor that it makes for a terrible user experience. Using machine translation is not only bad for human users. It’s harmful to SEO, because search engines view it as low-quality, computer-generated content.
So, think carefully before you show up with a “solution” to a translation problem that involves a machine translation API. You might be introducing more harm than good. However, if the content you’ll be translating won’t be published anywhere and is used for some other purpose (for example, getting a “gist” of a large amount of content), machine translation might be an option to consider.
Machine translation APIs are not appropriate for the majority of business translation needs. If they are used for corporate use cases, usually it’s in combination with a more robust enterprise translation platform API (see below). If you’re just doing a quick test or want to experiment, this might be an option. However, watch out for the SEO penalty, because it can harm traffic to your site even for your primary (source language) site.
In this new Disrupting Japan podcast # 86, Tim Romero sits with Jeff Sandford, co-founder of Wovn.io. The Wovn team has developed a way to take the pain out of web localization and translation. They promise to do it all with a single line of code.
Translation is a very complex process and humans play a vital role, despite the rise of software translation services, as well as a high demand for them.
“From the transistor radio to the Walkman to the Gameboy and the Playstation, Japan has always been both a leading force in hardware technology and a Mecca for gadget geeks.
Over the past ten years, however, Japanese dominance in consumer hardware has been slipping away. The falling price of not just computing, but of manufacturing and prototyping has resulted in some amazing connected devices appearing all over the world. But while Japan’s large corporations have been falling behind, Japan’s startups have been rushing ahead.”
Sumo is a traditional Japanese style of wrestling and is Japan's national sport. Six official tournaments (basho), which last 2 weeks each, are held every year: three in Tokyo at the Ryogoku stadium (January, May and September) and one in Osaka (March), Nagoya (July) and Fukuoka (November). But if you are not in Japan during one of these periods, you can still watch sumo wrestlers and catch one of their early-morning training sessions.
The Arashio Beya
Rakutabi, a brand new private guide service in Japan which provides fully customized and private escort guiding services, explains where and how to watch the “ sumotori “ practicing their masterful art.
At Rakutabi, we are not pretty far from believing that seeing sumo in action is one of the best cultural experiences you can have in Japan and watching a grand tournament should definitely be on your list. But we also think that there’s a way to experience this centuries’ old sport up close and personal – as in twenty feet away personal – by visiting a sumo stable and watching the morning training session, known as asageiko.
Travel serenely in Japan through Rakutabi private tour guides. They will accompany you for a first or umpteenth trip alone (e) or more, to discover more inevitable or unknown places.
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Uber and, to a lesser extent, Airbnb are failing horribly in Japan. There have been quite a few articles that have tried to explain what this is, and most of those articles have focused on why the market conditions in Japan make it hard for those companies.
Japan, however, has a much clearer understanding of what a rule is. Defying convention is viewed as risky, sometimes selfish, but — and this gives me hope for the future of Japan — it is increasingly admired. More and more, defying convention to pursue one’s dreams is seen as a positive thing. Startups who defy convention to introduce new ways of doing things are welcomed.
The hard and cold reality of Japanese hiring procedures.
Despite the embarrassing reality that English is endemically mis-used (as it happens most of the time), time to time some absolute priceless and well-spotted statements (which do not really need any further observation) erupt in your daily sky obscured by rather strange clouds . We are all Pink Floyds trying to escape that gloomy sky. Bingo.
Using OCR (OCR standing for "Optimizated Character Recognition") for translation processes is a bit like trying to make people realize that no plane allegedly crashed on the Twin Towers / Shanksville / nor the Pentagon (!!¡¡11) some 14 years ago as seen on your beloved teLIEvision. You're never quite sure how long it will take till things start to get a little "nasty". " I can't see what you're trying to say, WHAT'S THE POINT ??? ",eventually and endemically leading to " WHAT THE HECK IS WRONG WITH YOU, MISTER OCR ??? ". Indeed, chances that you keep a decent track of some sort of Optimal Cartoonesque Reality are actually quite slim, to say the least.
Wait, we ALL thought that "post-modern artsy mosaics" were solely part of the adult movie world... :(
When one of our "local" client first introduced us to the effective use of OCR for translation purposes a few years ago, it was relatively rare in the world of commercial translation and too often incompetently performed, but most professional translation agencies had been using that technology in one way or another for a decade already. But in many cases, "standard" procedures for optical character recognition are simply not well suited for our purposes, so here we go, we just had a lot to learn.
Well, the basic idea is to avoid using OCR for anything OTHER THAN undertaking some word counting estimation or the like. Unfortunately few do so efficiently or even usefully. Depending on the source, estimating text counts for word quotation may be very accurate or only a rough count (if there are serious contrast problems that can't be compensated, for example). Most professional translators do this not only with PDFs and bitmap files such as JPEG or TIFF, but also with large, complex documents in other formats.
One cannot always rely on the counts from Microsoft Word itself or various translation tools for text counting. Embedded objects, even editable ones, are generally not included in the counts, we ALL know this but time to time fail to admit it (!!).
Using OCR to prepare translations is often straightforward, but there are a number of traps that people commonly fall into. Do not, under any circumstances, be seduced by the automatic conversion settings of any commercial OCR program nor by options to save with the "original formatting". This is nearly always a disaster when working with translation tools. Problems may include bizarre text changes, disappearing chunks of text due to text box sizing problems, a plague of tags and more.
OCR強迫観念、あ・ぶ・な・い！！！ Be safe !
““ 日本企業は、海外の企業と比べて長期的に従事することに大きな価値を見出す傾向があり、
書類選考の際も、ご経歴より先にまず求職者様の履歴書・職務経歴書の社数を確認し、合否を決められることが多々あります。
こういった日本企業の採用基準や、考えなどを事前にラベリ様にご説明できておらず、
書類選考結果について誤解を招くようなことがあったこと、深くお詫び申し上げます。
誠に申し訳ございませんでした。””
That is precisely the sort of leitmotiv your typical candidate will most likely hear whenever he or she will start looking for {what seems to be pretty legitimate elsewhere} "another job". Well, luckily for those candidates i.e. for US, things have gradually started to change and we can only hope this trend will keep going.
In this new Disrupting Japan episode, Tim Romero interviews Koishiro Yoshida, founder of CrowdWorks, who took CrowdWorks from idea to IPO in less than three years, and today both CrowdWorks and crowd-sourcing in general are seen as essential to Japan’s future economy.
“Of course, since so much of modern business culture in Japan is based on the idea of belonging to a specific company, the move to large-scale freelancing will lead to large social changes as well. Both good and bad.”
The Social Service : melodically warning you against that strange thing which we call "TV"...
Today,PJ Transervices is proud to celebrate the release of a very inspiring album produced by a band called "the social service" and led by one man, Simon Shack, who happens to be not just a friend of yours truly but who's also both a multi-linguist half Norwegian - half Swedish very talented musician and sound engineer (just to name a few of his many other talents), "Realitivity" is a very pleasant audio journey which will take you through great funky/ ethnic bass lines, very peaceful BUT extremely awakening lyrics (yes, one does not always need to scream it out loud to spread the message...), thus very well assembled compositions combining a wide-range of GOOD musical influences (Frank Zappa or Peter Gabriel), and by "good" we mainly mean the vibration that truly matters.
The Social Service's Realitivity very inspired art cover, a wall painting made by Hoi Polloi, a passionate and self-dedicated media fakery investigator (www.cluesforum.info). What may the well-known italian character Pinocchio have to do with the Twin Towers? hmm hmm.
“To me, music-making remains a wonderful ‘escape-road’ from this crazy world we live in, and this, in spite of all what I’ve learned over the years regarding the sadly corrupt / co-opted music industry (what with several of my former ‘youth music icons’ - the likes of Frank Zappa or Peter Gabriel to name but two) turning out to be fishy / dubious characters...
To be sure, I have long given up my youthful / wishful idea of making a living out of my music-making - but I can only wish and hope that some folks will enjoy what I now consider as a ‘soothing hobby’ of mine - and of our band (all members of which are non-professional / part-time musicians). Here follows a list of the various Social Service band members which have contributed to the above two albums (the latest of which also including a few drum & bass samples from creative commons material) “
Simon Shack, May 17th, 2015.”
Could media fakery be the ultimate medium and an absolute "weapon of mass distraction" to quote Simon's own words?. All roads seem to be leading towards that "direction" and while this both crucial and very urgent topic seems to be irritating the vast majority of people around, what other better way to spread the message while singing it?
Today, in our very first Video Blog series, we interview Ms. Yvonne Pang , co-founder of Doko.com and of another upcoming (and very promising) on-line token service called iPinguo aimed at bridging the gap between the increasing number of Apple users in China with affiliated on-line and physical stores via a "coupon / voucher " system.
Doko.com 's landing page
Founded 2006 in Tokyo, Doko.com is a Swiss owned Internet marketing agency specialized in strategic planning, execution and ongoing optimization.
So far, Doko.com has helped a wide range of high-end clients across Asia, America and Europe to establish an online brand awareness and acquire customers.
Doko.com is committed to pushing technology and new features to the limits so that our clients can follow their aspirations.
Together with Ms. Pang, among various entrepreneurship related topics, we also address both the challenges and the difficulties of launching such a token service in mainland China especially in regards to the governmental regulations at work when it comes to developing an on-line service whose targeting audience is everything except small.
Guoquan | gwotʃuæn | which stands for "coupon" or "voucher" in Mandarin Chinese is what connects the Apple user to its local retailer. Together with the iPinguo App (almost operational at that stage but still in its Beta version), the user will simply follow the "Guoquan" to its closest local affiliated store during the redemption period. From there, the user will show the Guoquan to the store staff and ask for the 4-digit redemption code. The last step is rather simple, the user will simply have to tap the big blue "Redeem Guoquan" button, and enter the sent code in order to receive the offer.
iPinguo seems to be operating with the latest geo-localization technologies (though we are here dealing with Apple maps rather than Google Maps :) as the location service finds available "Guoquan" nearby matching the user's taste and style. Guoquan search results are based on the user's footprints "tracked" on iPinguo rather than on the "paid placements".
Connecting the Apple user with the token service affiliated stores via the iPinguo App.
Welcoming Ms. Yvonne Pang, COO of iPingo
Reviewing the main aspects of the soon to be launched iPingo new token service for Apple users in China.
* Forgive us for the rather sloppy (or shall we rather say "almost inexistent") video editing work, things will get better within the next episodes, hopefully !
Note : you need to have the latest Adobe Flash Player version installed on your computer in order to view the video blog episode.
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みなさんの住んでいる地域に、どれだけ素晴らしいところがあって、どれだけ素晴らしい人がいるでしょうか。
みなさんの地域の可能性を知ることができれば、生活がどれだけ豊かになるでしょうか。
みなさんが情報を発信したいと思ったときに、無差別に情報の海に垂れ流すのではなく、より確実に、より繋がりのある人々に伝えることが出来たら、どれだけ可能性が広がるでしょうか。
みなさんの地域における情報の相互流通を促すことで、地域のコミュニティが活性化され、より個性的な生活、より魅力的な社会が生まれてくることでしょう。
プラットフォーム仕組み
情報社会と呼ばれるようになった現在、情報は溢れるほど出ているのに、必要としている人に情報が届いていない、発信できる人の情報ばかりが出ているため、情報が偏在していることが地域情報の課題となっています。
また、市の情報発信は、その立場や体制から非常に制約が多く、決して効率的ではありません。結果、情報が乱立してしまい、情報技術を使える人と使いこなせない人で情報格差が生じています。
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Yoichiro “Pina” Hirano, founder of Infoteria.
What makes a world-class entrepreneur? Of course, there’s no cut-and-dry answer, but if you examine the backgrounds of some of the tech industry’s most well-known (perhaps even notorious) CEOs, some traits begin to materialize: computer-obsessed dropouts with passion that borders on hubris and the ability to convince people that what they are doing is the most important thing in the world.
In Japan, a country that beats conformity into the populace at a young age with such cautionary proverbs as “The nail that sticks out gets hammered down,” Yoichiro “Pina” Hirano had a lot more working against him than his western counterparts. His company, Infoteria, develops enterprise software – and while that’s definitely not as sexy as mobile apps or smart home gadgets, it bears mentioning that a homegrown company has triumphed over global giants in this sector like Microsoft and IBM.
Pina’s story is a special one – made even more unique against the backdrop of Japan.
Read the full story here
Gabacho Maroconnexion est un collectif de musiciens aux multiples origines et dont le talent n'est plus à démontrer, le groupe ayant jusqu'ici participé à de nombreux festivals de jazz et de musiques nouvelles avec notamment des dates en France, en Espagne, au Maroc, en Equateur...
La musique de Gabacho Maroconnection réunit un tronc commun de cultures et de genres et incorpore une pléthore d'influences de manière fraîche et nouvelle.
Dans le cadre de leur prochaîne tournée en Asie durant le mois de Novembre 2015, PJ Transervices est heureux d'apporter son soutien à ce groupe prometteur et fédérateur en tant que partenaire de liaison et interprète. A ce stade, le festival de jazz et de musiques nouvelles de Kathmandu a été confirmé et nous espérons poursuivre cette route asiatico-orientale lors de prochaînes dates à venir.
Today's new episode of Disrupting Japan focuses on how Japan went from being the world’s engine of disruptive innovation to being the developed nation most resistant to disruption.
The phrases “disruptive innovation” and “disruptive business” are thrown around far too often and far too loosely these days. Of course, at first glance, it would seem that the same charge could be leveled against this podcast. This is a special one-on-one episode where we talk about what disruptive innovation really means.
A small handful of entrepreneurs are, perhaps for the very first time in Japan, embracing the spirit of disruptive innovation. And these startups will be the key to Japan’s next economic boom.
¿Que seria la vida española sin jamón y que seria la television española sin todas sus programas de telebasura?
El jefe infiltrado (conocido como El jefe en su primera etapa) es un programa de televisión español de telerrealidad, en el que los jefes trabajan infiltrados en sus propias empresas para investigar cómo funcionan realmente y para identificar cómo se pueden mejorar, así como para recompensar a sus empleados.
El programa que tuvo una primera temporada de éxito volvía con una nueva infiltración de un nuevo jefe en esta segunda temporada. En esta ocasión se trataba de Nicolás Kanngiesser, dueño de la empresa de limpieza de vehículos, DetailCar. Y es que fueron las excesivas preguntas de Philippe, identidad que adquirió para infiltrarse, lo que provocara las sospechas de algunos de sus empleados.
La pagina principal del sitio web de DetailCar.
Y es que el pasar desapercibido en el programa es la mejor manera para que el jefe pueda conseguir toda la información posible de los trabajadores además de ver las cosas positivas y negativas que hay en cada franquicia.
Y las cosas aveces no son como parecen...
Knowledge is and should always be seen as the main media as knowledge management should therefore be considered as the efficient way to spread the message. To do so, building an efficient private network platform is another must do for any organization willing to solidify any existent and constantly expanding network.
GLOBAAL Co.Ltd , a young IT Consulting company based in Tokyo initially launched in November 2013 has just come up with a bright way to both converge and federate most current social network platforms into one very efficient self-built social engine platform. It may look like your regular Facebook page however it seems to be far more intuitive and enables each collaborator (reminder, this is NOT a public social media but a private network made out of collaborators accepted on request and most importantly involved in various ways with the company's main activities) to aggregate different social platforms while interacting with each member in real time.
Example of a perfect and extremely smooth social platform's integration on GLOBAAL NET
We will soon post an audio interview in French of their founder and CEO, Serge N'GBesso, so stay tuned !
Aujourd'hui, Sylvain Pierre, un jeune entrepreneur français basé à Ho Chi Minh - Vietnam dresse une salutaire liste (probablement non-exhaustive cependant) de jeunes start-ups françaises implantées au Japon.
Parmi elles, une toute jeune, WAKU WAKU (qui veut dire "excitant"),crée par Vincent Bonhomme, lancée mi-2013 et qui en plus d'être spécialisée dans la publicité pour jeux mobiles (générant un système de coupons-bons d'achat pouvant par la suite être utilisés auprès de partenaires commerciaux) est également spécialisée dans la localisation - traduction de jeux vidéos.
Today, another great Disrupting Japan episode brought by Tim Romero , introducing Tadashi Tanimoto , Founder and CEO of Realcom Inc.
" Tadashi Tanimoto is a man with a big successes behind him and a big dream ahead of him. The IPO of Realcom was just a milestone in a longer journey to change the way people work together and share information. Now, I realize, that sounds like a typical committee-written and board-approved mission statement from any number of enterprise software companies. But as you get to know Tadashi, you begin to understand that he not only means it, but lives it. (...) " Source
One of the many interesting points which Tadashi brought during Tim's interview was the way Tanimoto answered Tim's question when he was asked to explain why he personally thinks that traveling and living abroad was essential in terms of both human and working experiences. Contrary to what most people would state when asked such specific cross-cultural related questions, Tadashi claims that exposing yourself to a foreign culture during a certain period of time enables you to better understand the culture in which you were born and raised. I find this point to be particularly true and vital in the sense that it will definitely help to broaden your vision in many different ways.
That reminds me of some Geert Hofstede's works studied during my uni years.
Today, we bring you a great insightful podcast with Tim Romero , President, Representative Director at Engine Yard, K.K., here interviewing Taku Harada, CEO and founder of Peatix.com, who left a dream job in Japan and is now changing ticketing around ...
(..,) Taku walked away from the kind of a career that most people dream of. He had proven himself at Sony Music, Apple and in his late twenties he was quickly rising thought he ranks at Amazon Japan. He and his friends knew they had an amazing career ahead of them, and that terrified them. At that point they knew they had to go out on their own and build something amazing.(...)
