In 2017, the number of foreign visitors to Japan cleared 28 million for the first time ever, and the number of foreign residents in the country similarly marked an all-time high of 2.5 million. These ...

The conviction in March of a young man from the United States for killing an Irish exchange student raised the issue of how well Japanese courts provide interpretation for non-Japanese put on trial.

The company contracted by the Ministry of Justice to provide court interpreting makes a profit of only two pence per £1, a House of Lords inquiry has been told. For the past few weeks, the Lords’ ...

THE Supreme Court en banc has approved the rules on Filipino Sign Language (FSL) Interpreting in the Judiciary, that aims to ensure equal, effective access to justice for hearing-impaired Filipinos ...