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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...