Government support for AI manga translation

[Tom Gally]

An article in this morning’s Nihon Keizai Shimbun reports on a ¥2.92 billion government/private investment in a start-up specializing in AI translation of manga:

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I found this statistic interesting:

日本の漫画は海外でも人気が高いが英訳数は多くない。国内で約70万点あるとされる作品のうち英訳されたのは1万4000点ほどだ。

The website of the start-up in question is here:

https://orange.inc/ja

Not to be confused with a more traditional translation agency with nearly the same name:

https://www.orange-sha.co.jp/business/global/translation/

Tom Gally