We have reviewed some
of the most popular online free Japanese translation sites. These
free Japanese translation sites use machine translation systems and
have their limitations.
When you need important documents translated we
strongly recommend that you use our professional
Japanese Translation service.
Currently none of the free Japanese translation sites/tools even
come close to providing an adequate quality of translation. It is
unlikely that machine translation software will ever be able to
replace human translators as there will always be the difficulty of
determining the context or cultural aspect that a particular
sentence or phrase is in.
Where the current free Japanese translation sites can be handy is in
translating single words or a very simple phrase. Most of the time
the translation of a single word is reasonably good, however this
really means they are closer to a dictionary than a translator.
FREE JAPANESE TRANSLATION SITES
Alta Vista Babel
Fish Translation
Does many languages including Japanese to English and English to
Japanese. It can do a few paragraphs or a whole web page. Seems to
have a limited dictionary as it often shows Japanese where it cannot
work out the translation. You may be able to understand the basics
of what a text is saying. Rating 2/10.
Excite
Japan
The interface is in Japanese, but if you can work through that then
you will find an online translator with a significantly larger
dictionary and a bit better sentence structure. Rating 3/10.
Google Translate
Beta
The Japanese to English section of this tool is still in beta, but
clearly it has a long way to go. The dictionary is similar in size
to Babel. The sentence structure is probably worse than Babel.
Rating 1/10.
