[PRCo] Re: Translating Japanese text (was Re: Johnstown party bus)

[Bill Robb]

Japanese text can be translated with machine translators. Here's three. 
Google Translate

http://translate.google.com/translate_t#

Systran

http://www.systransoft.com/

Japanese Excite

http://www.excite.co.jp/world/english/web/

This is my favorite.  It's default is English to Japanese.   You paste the url in the box, move the blue icon down by clicking on the lower icon for Japanese to English and click on the yellow icon. Some types of pages Excite will not translate. In that case try Google as it translates almost all pages, but not all the way down on some documents.

These translations are not always perfect, but I can get the basics out of them. One thing these machine translators will not translate is an image with text on it. A PDF is an image unfortunately. No solution to that so far. But the larger private railways will often have route and station names in Kanji and English on PDF documents.



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Schneider Fred 

Not bad at all for an evening's entertainment.  The beer tram in  
Japan --- 3600 yen at today's rate of exchange is $40.36 for  
something resembling dinner, drinks and two hours of trolley riding.
I can imagine Derrick wanting to go there to try out the beer.

I wish there was someone who could translate the Japanese characters.

Thanks Bill for forwarding.


On Dec 18, 2008, at 7:16 PM, Bill Robb wrote:

> There are places with beer trolleys.  But not the US.  Puritans and  
> conservative Republicans (and their lawyers) are in charge.
> http://www.seekjapan.jp/article/1722/Beer+Trams+Running+in+Hot+Summer
>
> Japanese trams with bench seats are laid out just perfect for a  
> portable table down the center of the streetcar.
>
> http://jaritetu.exblog.jp/7719637/    Japanese text with numerous  
> photos
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> ________________________________
> Dennis F. Cramer wrote
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> Just saw a spot on WJAC, channel 6 that a local guy has purchased 2  
> busses and rents them for parties, Altoona Curve games, weddings,  
> etc and is making a killing since Cambria Transit is not permitted  
> to rent out theirs.  Since I am in the wedding business, I do hear  
> people complain about restrictions on renting publicly funded  
> busses.  Imagine being able to rent a PAT bus or the "T".  We used  
> to be able to do it.  I guess the attorneys gave themselves more work.
> http://guides.limores.net/Party_Bus_Johnstown_PA-r852770- 
> Johnstown_PA.html
>
>
> Dennis F. Cramer
>      Trombone
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