Disclaimer

(December 10, 2024; Updated April 17, 2025)

Freelance Japanese-to-English translation is no longer a career to aim for. The demise of that career path was brought about by companies positioning themselves as agencies but acting as translation brokers using machine translation to eliminate the need to pay professionals to translate.

Accordingly, I need to state that the provision of content in the Legacy Translation Content section of the website in no way implies that the author believes that more than a tiny portion of the working freelance translators at the time of this writing will be able to make a living translating after about mid-2027, and recent events lead me to believe that the end will arrive even earlier.