From: Eiki Ito <eiki <at> HAL <dot> COM>
Date: 19 mar 2001
Subject: Japanese->English Translation for Web Pages Available

Hi All,

I just heard of an interesting news.

>- NIFTY Introduces "@nifty Global gate" Web Translation Site
>
>  -- Allows users to view English Internet sites in Japanese
>  and Japanese sites in English --
>
>  March 15, 2001 -- NIFTY Corporation today announced that it has
>  established "@nifty Global gate" (http://www.nifty.com/globalgate/),
>  a website with English to Japanese and Japanese to English
>  translation capability on its @nifty.com site.  @nifty, NIFTY's
>  Internet service has over 4.5 million subscribers and is Japan's
>  largest ISP.

http://www.nifty.com/globalgate/ itself is a Japanese page and you'll
see lots of (apparently) junks, but don't worry: click the button
that's immediately right to a field labled "URL:".  There are two selections,
change the default.  Here you are selecting "Japanese->English" instead of
"English->Japanese".  Then enter whatever URL to the URL field and click
another button which is located right to the translation selectin button
mentioned above.  A translated page will appear.

Try www.shogi.or.jp (Renmei's page) if you'd like.  There are some (lots?)
mistranslations (e.g. "Habu" is translated as "Hanyuu"), but overall
I think this is not too bad.

thanks,
eiki