Finding Japanese translations of English books

[Jacob Dunlap]

Does anyone know of resources or techniques for searching for Japanese
translations of English literature, particularly nonfiction? Since
Japanese translations often have very different titles, it's sometimes
been tough for me to find the translations of my favorite books (for
example, "Born to Buy" is "子どもを狙え!" in Japanese). I don't know if
there is some database linking ISBNs or something like that... any
thoughts would be much appreciated!

Jacob Dunlap

[Naomi Roulston]

hi jacob,

no special technique but i search amazon and amazon.jp. because the titles are often very different, searching for the author instead of the title often helps.

naomi roulston

[Jacob Dunlap]

Hello,

On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 6:20 PM, Naomi Roulston
<naomi.r...@gmail.com> wrote:
> hi jacob,
>
> no special technique but i search amazon and amazon.jp. because the titles
> are often very different, searching for the author instead of the title
> often helps.

Wow. I must be working too hard lately -- the idea of searching by
author (and by the author's name in katakana) didn't even occur to me.
Time for a vacation!

Thanks much!

Jacob Dunlap

[Ray Roman]

English author names can work too. I just searched Stephen Covey and David Allen, for example. . .

On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Jacob Dunlap <jaked...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello,

Wow.  I must be working too hard lately -- the idea of searching by

author (and by the author's name in katakana) didn't even occur to me.
 Time for a vacation!

--
Ray Roman 

Japanese to English legal translation
japane...@gmail.com

[Naomi Roulston]

 Time for a vacation!

me too!! :)

naomi roulston. 

[shoko fukui]

Hi Jacob

Access

http://webcat.nii.ac.jp/webcat_eng.html

and enter the english title and hit Search. Then you will find the
Japanese translation.

Hope this helps.

Shoko Fukui

[Carl Freire]

On Jan 20, 2012, at 8:59 AM, shoko fukui wrote:
> Access
>
> http://webcat.nii.ac.jp/webcat_eng.html
>
> and enter the english title and hit Search. Then you will find the
> Japanese translation.

Nice! By the way, in the realm of tangential but related information, if you ever want to find the Japanese titles of foreign films, an excellent first stop is the All Cinema database:

<http://www.allcinema.net/>

You can also, of course, reverse search the Japanese title to find the foreign-language original.

The Internet Movie Database <http://www.imdb.com/> is also constantly fleshing out its listings of the titles of movies in all languages, though it gives you all of its results in romaji.

Cheers,
Carl

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Carl Freire
Tokyo, Japan
mailing list address:
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