Japanese Language Service  for Fund  Managers

Part 1: Pension Funds Summary This blog delves into the landscape of hedge fund investments in Japan. It explores the various types of...

This is not a sick joke. In a survey carried out by Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Company in Japan, 20% responded that their marital...

When I was eighteen, I felt that there was no compelling reason for me to go to college. The job prospects for female college graduates...

I began my translation career many years ago, fresh out of school, when I was hired by a merchant bank to do translation work. There was...

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With globalization comes the challenge of communicating in local languages. Some customers are bypassing agencies and going directly to...

The concept of “有価証券” (yukashoken) in Japan covers pretty much all sorts of securities – notes, deposit certificates, bonds, stocks, and...

Communication across different cultures involves varying degrees of “directness.” This is an important point to think about when...

Quality of translation may be expressed by the following equation: E[q] = α + β(standard difficulty of text) + ε where E[q] is the...

I can easily get intimidated by the prospect of reading the CAIA textbook with only an economics degree and training as a linguist. And...

Yesterday I saw an interesting program on TV, featuring some people in Japan who took up day trading - the making of stock and forex...

A few weeks ago, I saw a news on TV about a Ponzi scheme that was carried out by a company named MRI International Inc. The company sold...

For some reason that I don’t know yet, one needs to understand the natural logarithm to calculate interest rates. Back in high school, I...