Episode Details

Localizing Japanese Video Games (Mel Ok of Ace Honyaku)

Episode 95 Published 4 years ago

Description

On this episode of the Japan Station podcast, Japanese to English translator/localizer Mel Ok tells about localizing Japanese video games and how he got into the translation/localization industry.

About Mel Ok

Mel Ok is a translator/localizer of Japanese video games and heads the translation/localization company Ace Honyaku.

Topics Discussed

The Japanese population in Hawaii
Studying Japanese linguistics
About doing play testing for video games
Doing the Japanese QA for Halo 2
On getting to Japan and trying to get into the JET Program
On transitioning into the translation & localization industry
On starting a translation company in Japan
On how the translation & localization process for video games works
On dealing with ambiguities in texts
On dealing with new IP
On translating The World Is Your Weapon
On how long it can take to translate a game
The difficulty of finding good translators
On translation tests
Advice for aspiring translators/localizers
About Tottori
And much more!

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Links, Videos, Etc.

To follow Mel Ok on Twitter or visit the ACE Honyaku website, use the links below.

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