Here’s How YOU Can Help Find a Cure for COVID-19! Given the struggles that the world is going through at the moment, we’ve started using Folding@Home to try and help by contributing spare computer cycles to fighting COVID-19 as well as other diseases, and we’d like other people to join in! Folding@Home can be set to run only when your computer is at idle, so there is no reason not to, apart from a tiny bump in electricity usage. We’ve set up a team so we can see the difference that we’ve made, and we urge you to check it out. Details as to how to install and configure are…

We are pleased to announce that we are now hosting some glossaries created by translators for translators. You can view these at: http://www.t-nex.jp/dictionaries/index.html Please feel free to use (or link to) these resources. We plan to add to them when possible.

Nexus Translations will be exhibiting at the Hamamatsu Business Matching Fair on the 17th and 18th of July, in booth A-57. Please come see us if you’re in the area! http://www.hamamatsu-bmf.jp/    

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Drinking parties, or enkai in Japanese are aimed at both promoting communication between companies and facilitating negotiations, and are a feature common to not only Japan, but to other countries throughout Asia. However, bringing together members from different companies for drinking parties as a part of negotiations is much less common in the West. Managers and top-level officials will sometimes meet for golf in order to discuss business, but having managers and other employees get together to socialize over drinks by going to bars, karaoke, or clubs is pretty well unheard of. Japan places great stock in in vino veritas—the idea that people tend to speak more frankly after a…

Graham and his team have supported our project for the past several years. Each year we have received many compliments from Japanese-speaking recipients of our annual calendar about the high quality of the translations produced in it. We owe much of the success and growth of our project each year to the Nexus Translations team! THE THIS IS FUKUSHIMA PRODUCTION TEAM

One company I have been visiting since last year has recently implemented “no-overtime days.”   As society changes, they are undoubtedly trying to improve the work-life balance enjoyed by employees, but I am sure that they are also trying to reduce overtime costs. No-overtime days makes sense to me — after all, who wants to spend all day at the office?　In spite of this, when I asked some of the employees what they thought of no-overtime days, they didn’t look that enthusiastic about the idea. “What? You want to spend more time at the office?” I’ve spent a long time in Japan, and frankly, this surprised me.   I worked…

We commissioned Nexus to provide copywriting services for pamphlets in European languages. The quality of their work, and the detailed feedback on the project meant a very satisfied end-client. We will definitely be using Nexus again. C TO C, LTD.

We deal with clients who are actively working at expanding their operations overseas. We have been very happy with Nexus’ dependable, accurate translations as well as their rapid handling of our requests.

Nexus has translated corporate profiles and correspondence for senior management for us. Our business is complex, and requires extreme delicacy of expression. Nexus Translations has helped us enormously by providing nuanced, easily comprehensible translations. Total Planning HANAJYUKU Co., Ltd.

Nexus Translations has translated contracts and proposals for Shelby Asia INC., as well as the frequent exchanges of email that our business entails. They offer a rapid response, offering clarification where needed, and delivered extremely accurate translations. They are a very reliable organization, and we expect to see them grow in the future. SHELBY ASIA INC.

We have been working with Marc and his team for close to three years, and are satisfied with Nexus’ translation quality for Japanese to English translation in the area of machinery/mechanical projects. Marc and Graham are pleasant to work with, and we can always count on them to respond to emails promptly, accept urgent or complicated translation requests, and deliver work on schedule. (Name withheld for contractual reasons)