Mastodawn

We don't compromise because someone else didn't deliver in time. Players notice every wrong call, and we are not in the business of guessing on their behalf. To devs and publishers considering Japanese, Chinese, or Korean loc: ship visuals with your brief. If you don't, we'll get them ourselves. The wrong rendering in shipped Japanese is more expensive than a screenshot folder. That's the contract Loekalization is built on. #GameLocalization #CJKLocalization #JapaneseTranslation #VideoGames

Jim Rion Dec 8

Jim ponders the enormous change in his career as 2025, a momentous year, comes to a close. #Freelance #Translation #Uketsu #JapaneseTranslation

The State of My Career

The State of My Career

As 2025 comes to a close and the retrospectives begin, I admit to being influenced to take a look back at how things have gone, and how they are going. One of the dominant topics in the entire tran…

Jim Rion - Translator & Writer

Front Page [Unofficial]Oct 10, 2025

12 utterly delightful Japanese words that have no English equivalent

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Jim Rion Apr 30, 2025

IJET-33 registration closes tonight! Come see me lament the machine-driven erosion of faith in human skill and value! Network with other translators! Try some great Yamaguchi Sake! #xl8 #Translation #翻訳 #通訳 #Interpretation #JapaneseTranslation #ijet33

International Japanese-English...

Bluesky

Bluesky Social

Jim Rion Nov 28, 2024

Some real translation bigshots doing the keynote at IJET! Come see them (and maybe me!) speak next May in Fukuoka. Details at the website! #JapaneseTranslation #Translation #Shogun

Japan Association of Translato...

Jim Rion Sep 17, 2024

A little inside talk on how me being a fan of weird Youtube videos has led to maybe being part of something unexpected. #Uketsu #JapaneseTranslation #Books #Literature

Translating Uketsu

Will (old/moving to beige)Mar 2, 2024

@todayilearned ‘mono’ means thing in Japanese. Does that mean that monomania refers to a thingle track mind? #JapaneseTranslation

Christina500 Aug 12, 2023

#DeWitt2023 Donald Richie wrote the English subtitles for Akira Kurosawa's films Throne of Blood (1957), Red Beard (1965), Kagemusha (1980) and Dreams (1990)! #Kurasawa #DonaldRichie #LafcadioHearn #TheLastSamurai #JapaneseTranslation