Really basic Japanese for Pachinko Buyers

[janbari]

Easiest way to translate a title is not to, because half the time they barely make sense in Japanese.
Romanizing is probably the best way.

Alot of the latest machines tend to have english names or spin offs from famous hollywood movies. At least thats the trend i'm noticing.

Although in desperate times Babelfish is always great. And you have to love the Hitch Hikers Guide reference!

[takethecastle57]

Easiest way to translate a title is not to, because half the time they barely make sense in Japanese.
Romanizing is probably the best way.

Alot of the latest machines tend to have english names or spin offs from famous hollywood movies. At least thats the trend i'm noticing.

Although in desperate times Babelfish is always great. And you have to love the Hitch Hikers Guide reference!

I've loved reading and re-reading Douglas Adams books including "Last Chance to See" and "Titanic"


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GUV7zz-8Oc

[jmtech]

Here is a very useful site that will convert Japanese characters (Kanji, Hiragana, Katakana) into Romaji for us westerners. This converter also has a built-in dictionary. Try some of the examples above with this site, you can paste Japanese words or URLs in the text box.

kanji romaji hiragana converter

[wkmiller]

I've used: https://jisho.org/search , it allows you to pick the characters to build the translation.