Tsunami (English to Japanese) and Typhoon (Japanese to English), for instance, share much of their underlying programming code.
In any case, the new version of the robo-pet can learn up to 50 words in either Japanese or English.
Languages supported so far are Japanese, English, Chinese and Korean.
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One of Ghosn's first moves at Nissan was a shocker: He decreed that English, not Japanese, would be the official language of the Tokyo company, and he made it known that managers who learned English would advance faster than those who spoke only Japanese.
Utsushite Hon'yaku translates short written text between Japanese and either English, Chinese or Korean.
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Nanashi (57 rue Charlot, 3e, 01-44-61-45-49) is in the same vein as Rose Bakery but with a Japanese, rather than English, twist.
Ben Hills is an Australian investigative journalist who says he interviewed more than sixty Japanese, American and English sources for his unauthorised biography of the troubled princess.
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He studied both English and Japanese pattern-cutting techniques at Leggatts Design Academy (his graduate collection was all reversible) and worked as a costume designer before launching Black Coffee in 1998.
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That, says Mahendra Negi, chief financial officer of Trend Micro, a Tokyo-based computer-virus company, is bound to be a low-margin business, as all it really involves is translation from English into Japanese.
And despite years of mandatory English-language classes in secondary school, the Japanese score lowest among rich countries on English tests.
It's one thing for a robot to learn English, Japanese, or any other language that we humans have already mastered.
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When they are directed to engage in a combination of both English- and Japanese-language conversation with Ms. Yokoshi's Japanese temple dancer, their delivery turns amateurish.
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Her method for probing the validity of a patent often starts with a Google search, moving on to Wikipedia and more obscure troves, like Japanese patent databases translated into English.
This is explained by its originally having been written in English, so the Japanese version is a translation.
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"You can read it as poetry, " said Sun Ganlu, a prominent 54-year-old Chinese writer whose work has been translated into English, French and Japanese.
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In studies conducted by Caitlin Fausey at Stanford, speakers of English, Spanish and Japanese watched videos of two people popping balloons, breaking eggs and spilling drinks either intentionally or accidentally.
Then again, if English brings wealth why is Africa still downtrodden despite many Africans speaking English more fluently than the Japanese?
Japanese users are most comfortable with Japanese-language menus and input (although recently younger Japanese bi-lingual users would follow English-language Facebook updates).
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Last weekend in Tokyo I heard Mr Hashimoto calling for the slashing of government waste, cutting bureaucracy and making English an integral part of Japanese education.
Hanashite Hon'yaku provides translations between Japanese and the receiver's language, currently English, Chinese or Korean.
For most Japanese (data suggest over 80 percent), English is of little practical use.
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Yoshinori Ono from Japanese game maker Capcom addresses the audience in Japanese, with a translator offering the remarks in English.
The service, already available in English and Mandarin, was announced for Japanese, and Gundotra said Google's aim is to offer it for all the world's major languages.
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"I speak no Japanese at all, and she only speaks a little English, but we see it as an exciting challenge and proof of our faith, " he added.
The new Google Maps app is available for the iPhone and iPod Touch (4th gen) iOS 5.1 and higher, in more than 40 countries and 29 languages, including Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese and Spanish.
For example, in Japan most people just buy Japanese content, but a significant portion of people also buy English books.
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American groupware programs such as Lotus Notes are eventually adapted for Japanese use, but long after they have appeared in the English-speaking world.
Rock concerts bring in the money, along with seminars, and advertising on Internet websites (in English, German and Russian, as well as Japanese).
Another helpful tip: most of the park signs have English translations, even though the majority of visitors are Japanese.
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