Learning a new language is hard. And if there’s a new alphabet involved—like there is with Japanese for English-speaking travelers—it’s even harder. But technology is here to help. Google announced on ...

NTT DoCoMo wants travelers to Japan to say more than just “sayonara” when they hear Japanese. The mobile carrier is introducing an app that can instantly translate spoken Japanese into English and ...

Google Translate could already translate Japanese text into English from a captured photo, but now the app skips a step, letting you point your camera at signs, menus and other things that might ...

Anyone who travels frequently most likely encounters issues due to the language barrier that separates many countries from each other. While some languages are similar and you can “get by” with ...

Google Translates’s augmented reality feature, Word Lens, now works with Japanese. As with other supported languages, you simply point your smartphone camera at a Japanese sign, notice, menu or ...

Google Translate recently updated its iOS and Android applications, bringing Japanese-to-English and English-to-Japanese translation support to its augmented reality "Word Lens" feature. Thanks to the ...

Microsoft and Skype will now help you converse in real time with Japanese speaker — even if you don’t speak Japanese yourself. Skype announced this week that it was adding Japanese to its real-time ...

Japan's unique language makes calls to other countries a challenge: locals often don't have much choice but to brush up on someone else's language or hope there's a Japanese speaker on the other end ...