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...already in operation, helping Japanese companies like Mazda translate technical material. A powerful computer called SHALT, designed by IBM Japan, is being used extensively for in-house translations. In 1988 SHALT converted four IBM manuals from English into Japanese. This year the target is 20 to 30. Predicts Kiyotaka Yasui, manager of the language and image- technology section at IBM Japan's Tokyo research laboratory: "In five years the internal-publication department of IBM Japan will be fulfilling 100% of its translation requirements via machines...
Bibles & Battles. When young, westward-looking Governor Kiyotaka Kuroda summoned Clark to set up an agricultural college at Sapporo, capital of Hokkaido-Japanese students returning from Massachusetts had recommended Clark reverently-the island was only a few steps from wilderness. To Congregationalist Clark, the wilderness was a God-sent challenge; he kissed his wife and eleven children goodbye and set out-with 50 Bibles in his luggage...
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