Google Translate could already translate Japanese text into English from a captured photo, but now the app skips a step, letting you point your camera at signs, menus and other things that might ...

Thanks to some severely poor planning, my trip to Japan last week ended up being one more day than I had expected. And so my friend and I found ourselves stranded in Nagoya, a city in the center of ...

Google has made it easier than ever to read Japanese: all you need is a phone. Using the Google Translate app's camera feature, users can point their phone at a bit of Japanese text and see it on ...

TOKYO — Finding a cab driver who speaks English here can be a challenge. Fortunately, there's an app for that. #TalkingTech is in Japan this week, where Google Maps and Translate apps have been ...