{"id":9912,"date":"2024-05-09T08:48:38","date_gmt":"2024-05-09T00:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/?p=9912"},"modified":"2024-05-09T08:48:38","modified_gmt":"2024-05-09T00:48:38","slug":"%e6%97%a5%e6%9c%ac%e6%94%bf%e5%ba%9c%e5%8f%8a%e4%bc%81%e4%b8%9a%e5%90%91-ai%e7%bf%bb%e8%af%91%e5%88%9d%e5%88%9b%e5%85%ac%e5%8f%b8%e6%8a%95%e8%b5%84-29-%e4%ba%bf%e6%97%a5%e5%85%83%ef%bc%8c%e6%8b%9f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/9912.html","title":{"rendered":"The Japanese government and companies invested 2.9 billion yen in AI translation startups to increase comic exports and combat piracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-vmark=\"65a7\">According to reports from the Nihon Keizai Shimbun and NAMITEN, a new government-enterprise cooperation plan has been launched locally: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/ai%e7%bf%bb%e8%af%91\" title=\"[SEE ARTICLE WITH [AI TRANSLATOR] LABEL]\" target=\"_blank\" >AI Translation<\/a>, and achieved a more than two-fold increase in the export volume of Japanese comics to 50,000 copies within five years.<\/p>\n<p data-vmark=\"7ca9\">Specifically, ten companies including Japan Innovation Network Corporation (JIC) under the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan, and local publishing giant Shogakukan invested 2.92 billion yen (currently about 136 million yuan) in Orange, a startup that uses AI to translate comics.<\/p>\n<p data-vmark=\"7ccf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9913\" title=\"e1664a94-98d6-4d28-9c7a-f7bfab17e705\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/e1664a94-98d6-4d28-9c7a-f7bfab17e705.png\" alt=\"e1664a94-98d6-4d28-9c7a-f7bfab17e705\" width=\"1012\" height=\"1205\" \/><\/p>\n<p data-vmark=\"3120\">Nikkei reported that on the 7th local time, Orange outlined the investment details of Shogakukan and other companies and plans to export comics.<span class=\"accentTextColor\">The company aims to increase translation speed by 10 times to increase the number of manga exports and promote the development of Japan&#039;s content industry<\/span>After AI completes the initial translation, the company also sends the content to professional translators for polishing.<\/p>\n<p data-vmark=\"b4d3\">The move is also expected to speed up translation and publication.<span class=\"accentTextColor\">Reduce losses caused by piracy<\/span>This summer, these AI-translated comics will be available in the U.S. as e-books for the first time.<\/p>\n<p data-vmark=\"353e\">Previously, only about 14,000 of the more than 700,000 Japanese manga works had been translated into English.<span class=\"accentTextColor\">These comics were pirated before they reached overseas readers.<\/span>The Japan Manga Industry Association said it hopes to improve the competitiveness of Japan&#039;s content industry through anti-piracy measures.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NIHON KEIZAI SHIMBUN and NAMITEN have reported that a new government-company partnership has been launched to more than triple the number of Japanese manga exports to 50,000 in five years through AI translation. Specifically, ten companies, including Japan Innovation Network (JIC), a subsidiary of Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), as well as local publishing giant Shogakukan, have invested 2.92 billion yen (currently around 136 million yuan) in Orange, a startup that translates manga using AI. The Nikkei reports that Orange outlined the details of the investment by Shogakukan and other companies, as well as its plans to export manga, on July 7 local time. The company aims to increase translation speeds by a factor of 10 in order to increase the number of manga exports and boost domestic production in Japan.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[2101,2518],"collection":[],"class_list":["post-9912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ai","tag-2518"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9912"},{"taxonomy":"collection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection?post=9912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}