Japan basics
LINE’s New Japanese Large Language Model (LLM)
On August 14th, LINE announced its new Japanese Large Language Model (LLM). It’s an OSS, which can be used for commercial purposes. According to their tweet, LINE is working on multiple large-scale language models (LLM) research and development projects. From that, they released the Japanese language models with 3.6 billion,[…]
Continue »Japan’s Revised Telecommunications Business Law and What It Meas to Website Owners
Revised Telecommunications Business Law went into effect in June in Japan. This law applies to not only telecommunications and mobile companies but also to website owners. If you provide content online targeting Japan, you’ll need to comply with the law. The revision was made to the law mainly to better[…]
Continue »State of Search in Asia
From the beginning of search engine marketing including SEO, the work started with Baidu, Naver, and Yahoo! Japan for search engine optimization professionals and advertisers aiming to grow businesses in China, South Korea, and Japan markets. While they are still important platforms in each country, the search engine market share[…]
Continue »Translation and Localization Impact on SEO
Why Translation Tools Don’t Work Well With The Japanese Language In most cases, foreign companies’ websites for the Japanese market are based on their English (or parent) site content. While the text may be in Japanese, the content is not localized for the Japanese audience. This is one of the[…]
Continue »Constant Morph of Japanese Words
No matter what the language is, it has changed over time and is still changing. You can say that especially with the Japanese language. The speed of change differs depending of the word (or the group of the words). I sometimes find some words become trend or out of trend[…]
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