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Professional Japanese marketing translation for Numbugga businesses. Brochures, websites, campaigns and product materials translated to engage your target audience.
Send us your marketing materials for a free quote. Our Japanese translators adapt your message to resonate naturally with your target audience.
Marketing translation goes beyond word-for-word — we adapt your message so it sounds natural and compelling in Japanese.
Accurate conversion of meaning from one language to another, maintaining the same structure and content. Best for factual marketing content, product descriptions and technical specifications.
Creative adaptation of your message for the target culture. Slogans, taglines, advertising copy and brand messaging often need transcreation to achieve the same emotional impact in Japanese.
Our Japanese translators will recommend the best approach based on your content type and goals.
Japanese is an East Asian language spoken by about 128 million people, primarily in Japan, where it is the national language. It is a member of the Japonic (or Japanese-Ryukyuan) language family, and its relation to other languages, such as Korean, is debated. Japonic languages have been grouped with other language families such as Ainu, Austroasiatic, and the now-discredited Altaic, but none of these proposals has gained widespread acceptance.
Little is known of the language's prehistory, or when it first appeared in Japan. Chinese documents from the 3rd century recorded a few Japanese words, but substantial texts did not appear until the 8th century. During the Heian period (794-1185), Chinese had considerable influence on the vocabulary and phonology of Old Japanese. Late Middle Japanese (1185-1600) included changes in features that brought it closer to the modern language, and the first appearance of European loanwords. The standard dialect moved from the Kansai region to the Edo (modern Tokyo) region in the Early Modern Japanese period (early 17th century-mid-19th century). Following the end of Japan's self-imposed isolation in 1853, the flow of loanwords from European languages increased significantly. English loanwords, in particular, have become frequent, and Japanese words from English roots have proliferated.
Japanese has no clear genealogical relationship with Chinese, although it makes prevalent use of Chinese characters, or kanji, in its writing system, and a large portion of its vocabulary is borrowed from Chinese. Along with kanji, the Japanese writing system primarily uses two syllabic (or moraic) scripts, hiragana and katakana. Latin script is used in a limited fashion, such as for imported acronyms, and the numeral system uses mostly Arabic numerals alongside traditional Chinese numerals.