How are English words written in Japanese?

When Japanese doesn’t have its own word for something it can use one of its two phonetic alphabets to represent a word from another language. computer konpyu-ta コンピュータ But as Japanese has a limited range of sounds, some loanwords (such as those with a...

Hello and goodbye

Why is text missing from the top and bottom of my document? If you’re having a letter, cover letter or other piece of correspondence being sent from one person directly to another, you may find that some text is missing from the very top and bottom. Japanese...

All about titles

Why do all the titles in my translation have “about” in them? If you’re taking the word “about” out of all the titles in your Japanese to English translation, they do come from somewhere. Japanese has a convention of identifying headings...