Japanese Translation Plan for crnjapan website

This contains information on pages that are ready to translate.  I am also starting to use it to maintain a "to do" list of modifications I want to make.  I hope that English speakers will someday volunteer to help with these also.

Guidelines for all translators

  1. Please maintain the existing paragraph structure so I can match English and Japanese paragraphs.

  2. We have a small but growing downloadable phrase dictionary.  Please download this dictionary (Excel format)  and use the indicated translations.  If you have an important phrase that is not in this dictionary, please create a new page in the excel spreadsheet and send the new page to me when you are done so I can include it for future translators.

  3. Website translation is a little different than document translation.  One goal is to show up in search engine results as often as possible.  So sometimes, you want to use as many different forms of the same phrase as possible, rather than standardizing on one form thruought.  One example in this website is for Hague.  Some Japanese websites use ハーグ and others use ヘーグ.  We probably need to "usually" use ヘーグ, which seems like it is a more often used version and more phonetically correct.  But make sure that ハーグ is occasionally used also.  So "almost but not quite standardize."   Also, both variants need to be included in the META KEYWORDS tag in the header of the webpage.

Guidelines for Japanese translators

  1. If you ever use names of treaties, I have the relevant ones here:  http://www.crnjapan.com/treaties

  2. When translating a link to another page on the website, check if there is already an existing Japanese page.  If so, please use the same title.  If the existing Japanese title is bad, tell me, and I can change that instead.

  3. When using names of left-behind children or their parents, check these pages.  You might find their name in Japanese already.

    1. http://www.crnjapan.com/familypages/en/

    2. http://www.crnjapan.com/people/ja/

  4. In general, be very careful about where you use Katakana.  I need this to be readable by older people, such as politicians, not just young people with good English like you!  Ask whether there is a traditional Japanese word with the meaning you want.  Most times there is.

  5. Try to use Kanji for all Japanese names.  If you don't know it, ask me.  All foreign names should be in Katakana, not English.

  6. If you use English, you should have a specific reason.  For example,   “Guardian ad Litem” is a complicated legal expression.  A phonetic translation would not be meaningful.  And there might not be a Japanese equivalent.  So it might be OK in this case.

Guidelines for Spanish Translators

TBD

Guidelines for French Translators

TBD

Especially Wanted

Korean and Taglog translators.

Top Level Pages

(Update-NN) - Initial translation done, but needs to be updated, and NN percent or more needs to be retranslated.  (Basically, NN will be either 25 meaning not too much, or 75 meaning a lot.)  A description of the change is given in the Page Description area.

Page Description JA ES FR IT
Infrastructure - these need to be done before anything else for a new language.  You could just copy these from your browser into a word processor.  But if you can do basic html editing, please ask me for the source copy instead.  That will be easier for us all since I will not likely make any mistakes copying your translation out of the word document and into the html file myself.

REQUIRED - I will put up a new language after getting these required items plus a translation of the front page.

I need the name of the new language in that language itself.

http://www.crnjapan.com/common/header-en.html   Left side menus, slogan, and following phrases:

bullet item, search, visit counter, Visitors

Goto CRN Japan Home Page

Japan Children's Rights Network

http://www.crnjapan.com/common/footer-en.html  Bottom of page text.

http://www.crnjapan.com/common/kiddisclaimer-en.html

http://www.crnjapan.com/common/lawdisclaimer-en.html

http://www.crnjapan.com/common/lpdisclaimer-en.html

http://www.crnjapan.com/common/construction-en.html; Under construction page

http://www.crnjapan.com/familypages/en/index.html  Column headings

Will add section headings pages someday.

A list of keywords used in the keywords META tags on every page.

TBD - will put in an excel file later - need to look at html source for now.

This description for the main page used in the META tags.

Information about Japanese Family Law concerning marriage, children, and divorce with a Japanese citizen. Discusses high rates of international and domestic parental abduction, and the lack of joint custody and enforcable child visitation rights in Japan.

OPTIONAL

Following are not really infrastructure, but it would be nice to get them done after the infrastructure.

http://www.crnjapan.com/en/issues.html - NOT NOW - After next update - I have many changes to make here.

http://www.crnjapan.com/en/remedies.html - NOT NOW - After next update - I have many changes to make here.

http://www.crnjapan.com/about/en/index.html - so reader knows

 DONE DONE DONE S
Front page

http://www.crnjapan.com

Update-40: Heavily edited the paragraphs at the bottom of the page.

Update-75: Includes Update 40 changes plus a previous round that was missed.

 MS

Update-40

 YCF

Update-75

 FR  

Issues page - DO NOT TRANSLATE  - Will be rewritten significantly

http://www.crnjapan.com/en/issues.html

See here for a very early version of the rewrite.

        

Remedies - DO NOT TRANSLATE    - Will be rewritten significantly

http://www.crnjapan.com/en/remedies.html

        
Find My Parent

http://www.crnjapan.com/familypages/en/

MS      
Abduction

http://www.crnjapan.com/abduction/en/

I NEED TODO:  Finish up issues pages.

RECENT CHANGES:   Related issues pages need to be translated.

 MK

Update-75

      
Custody

http://www.crnjapan.com/custody/ja/

I NEED TODO: Rewrite introductory comments to make less North Korea specific so dont have to change when that is over. Finish up issues pages.

RECENT CHANGES: Issues and Solutions section has been rewritten in new standard format.  Related issues pages need to be translated.

 MK

Update-75

   FR  
Visitation

http://www.crnjapan.com/visitation/en/

I NEED TODO:  Add a summary section at beginning.  Finish up issues pages.

RECENT CHANGES: Issues and Solutions section has been rewritten in new standard format. Related issues pages need to be translated.

 MK

Update-75

      
Divorce - I may make additions, but not many changes.

http://www.crnjapan.com/divorce/en/

I NEED TODO:  Add a summary section at beginning.  Finish up issues pages.

RECENT CHANGES: Added one issue and solution, one external resource added, two articles added. Related issues pages need to be translated.

 MK

Update-75

      
Adoption - DO NOT TRANSLATE  .  this will change a lot.

http://www.crnjapan.com/adoption/en/

        
Abuse: DO NOT TRANSLATE  .  this will change a lot.

http://www.crnjapan.com/abuse/en/

        
Prevention - Only partially ready.  The essays need to be reorganized, so do not translate the essay descriptions.

http://www.crnjapan.com/prevention/en/

MK      

Personal Stories Main Page Infrastructure  (All headings, and Introduction Text and the "Reported In the Press" part.   But do not translate the personal story summaries.  Each story translator will do that separately.)

http://www.crnjapan.com/pexper/en/

 MK      
SUCCESS - More or less ready, but contact me first and I will make any necessary final modifications.

http://www.crnjapan.com/success/en/

        
Published articles - this format is stable, but will need frequent additional translation

http://www.crnjapan.com/articles/en/

       
CRN Press - OK - needs a couple recent ones translated - needs to be ongoing as new articles come in occasionally

http://www.crnjapan.com/press/en/

MK      
Upcoming Events - OK needs a couple recent events translated

http://www.crnjapan.com/events/en/index.html

        
Message Boards - partially done by me, but needs some more translation.

http://www.crnjapan.com/ml/

       
Japanese Law: - partially ok. : This is a complex page. For now, just do the introduction and the Essays. DO NOT translate the names of laws (which need to match the real laws) . Do NOT translate Resources or Other Information yet.

http://www.crnjapan.com/japan_law/en/

       
Common Legal Forms - DO NOT TRANSLATE  .  but it could be soon.  Let me know if you want to do it.

http://www.crnjapan.com/forms/en/

       
Your rights in Japan: DO NOT TRANSLATE  .  this needs a lot of work.

http://www.crnjapan.com/rights/en/

        

International Treaties Main Page

http://www.crnjapan.com/treaties/en/

 TK      
Non-Japanese Law main page - easy

http://www.crnjapan.com/foreign_law/en/

       
Discrimination: DO NOT TRANSLATE  this will change a lot.

http://www.crnjapan.com/discrimination/en/

        

Lawyers main page

http://www.crnjapan.com/lawyers/en/

 MK      
Counseling - Do NOT TRANSLATE yet.  I am looking for someone to help rewrite this.  If you really want to do it, contact me first.

http://www.crnjapan.com/counselling/en/

       
Private Investigators

http://www.crnjapan.com/investigation/en/

       
Other Organizations

http://www.crnjapan.com/otherorgs/en/

       
Parental Alienation Syndrome DO NOT TRANSLATE  this will change a lot and Im not even sure it if belongs on the main menu.

http://www.crnjapan.com/pas/en/

       
Translation - OK

http://www.crnjapan.com/translation/en/

       
About Us Page

http://www.crnjapan.com/about/en/

TK      

Membership Page - DO NOT TRANSLATE    - Will be rewritten significantly

http://www.crnjapan.com/membership/en/

        
Get Involved - DO NOT TRANSLATE    - Will be rewritten significantly

 

        

Donations Page - DO NOT TRANSLATE    - Will be rewritten significantly

http://www.crnjapan.com/donations/en/

        

More Pages That Are Ready

Pages JA SP FR IT
Megumi Yokota Protest Page
In good shape, but I would like to take a quick final edit pass first.		 EK      
Japanese Warrants page

http://www.crnjapan.com/en/japanesewarrants.html

TK      
Personal Story:  WOM main page

http://www.crnjapan.com/pexper/wom/en/

 TK      
Personal Story:  JUK main page

http://www.crnjapan.com/pexper/juk/en/

 TK      

Personal Story:  MUG main page

http://www.crnjapan.com/pexper/mug/en/

 TK

Needs redo.

      

Personal Story:  LUS

http://www.crnjapan.com/pexper/lus/en/

        

Personal Story:  HAG

http://www.crnjapan.com/pexper/hag

       

Personal Story:  EAL

http://www.crnjapan.com/pexper/eal

Summary of this story for

http://www.crnjapan.com/pexper/en/

        

Personal Story:  HDS

http://www.crnjapan.com/pexper/hds/en/

        
Thinking of marrying page - very popular and good advise to all

http://www.crnjapan.com/prevention/en/protectselfbeforemarriage.html

MK CG    

Mikiko Otani Blacklist Page

http://www.crnjapan.com/lawyers/blklist/otani/en/index.html

        
International Treaties - Detail Pages

UN Convention on the Rights of the Child

        
         

Not Ready, but can be ready soon.

Pages JA SP FR IT

Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction

 

        

UN International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination

 

        

Do NOT translate - these may NEVER be ready.

Pages JA SP FR IT
BE_CAREFUL: Do not translate. Not ready at all.

http://www.crnjapan.com/careful/en/