[KyleGoetz]

Originally Posted by MMM

I don't know about other languages, but you will never get a perfect translation between English and Japanese for anything other than the most basic sentences. Japanese and English are just so different from each other.

This is true. Try translationparty.com to see what happens between English and Japanese machine translation.

I just took the first paragraph of the Wikipedia article on Japan and ran it through TranslationParty's engine:

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south. The characters that make up Japan's name mean "sun-origin", which is why Japan is sometimes referred to as the "Land of the Rising Sun".

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