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We’re Watching It Fail Live on Steam.", "url": "https://www.loekalization.com/blog/blog/2026/05/05/visual-novel-ai-four-days-fail-live-steam/", "published_at": "2026-05-05T13:22:06+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb76-1a96-7186-9dcd-5c17d503982e", "title": "Why “Miracle” and “Weird” Are the Same Kanji in Japanese", "url": "https://www.loekalization.com/blog/blog/2026/05/05/why-miracle-and-weird-are-the-same-kanji-in-japanese/", "published_at": "2026-05-05T12:34:50+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb76-1a96-7186-9dcd-5c17d58c1c55", "title": "Why Japanese Has Two Words for Therapy", "url": "https://www.loekalization.com/blog/blog/2026/04/23/why-japanese-has-two-words-for-therapy/", "published_at": "2026-04-23T14:12:16+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb76-1a96-7186-9dcd-5c17d6872435", "title": "Your family is armed (and they have been for 3000 years)", "url": "https://www.loekalization.com/blog/blog/2026/04/23/your-family-is-armed-and-they-have-been-for-3000-years/", "published_at": "2026-04-23T14:12:16+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb76-1a96-7186-9dcd-5c17d6e91a54", "title": "Pickled in Drama: The Japanese Word for Your Netflix Weekend", "url": "https://www.loekalization.com/blog/blog/2026/04/23/pickled-in-drama-the-japanese-word-for-your-netflix-weekend/", "published_at": "2026-04-23T14:12:15+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb76-1a96-7186-9dcd-5c17d75abdc0", "title": "The Word Japan Used Today to Tell 182 Cities Not to Panic", "url": "https://www.loekalization.com/blog/blog/2026/04/23/the-word-japan-used-today-to-tell-182-cities-not-to-panic/", "published_at": "2026-04-23T14:12:15+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb76-1a96-7186-9dcd-5c17d7763ed8", "title": "The Japanese word for everything you have ever shaped with your hands", "url": "https://www.loekalization.com/blog/blog/2026/04/23/the-japanese-word-for-everything-you-have-ever-shaped-with-your-hands/", "published_at": "2026-04-23T14:12:14+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb76-1a96-7186-9dcd-5c17d851504d", "title": "One Japanese Word, Three Meanings, Zero Memorization", "url": "https://www.loekalization.com/blog/blog/2026/04/23/one-japanese-word-three-meanings-zero-memorization/", "published_at": "2026-04-23T14:12:14+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb76-1a96-7186-9dcd-5c17d8db9b39", "title": "The Word That Holds Japan Together", "url": "https://www.loekalization.com/blog/blog/2026/04/23/the-word-that-holds-japan-together/", "published_at": "2026-04-23T14:12:13+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb76-1a96-7186-9dcd-5c17d93ea4ec", "title": "Crimson Desert: three markets, three narratives, one game", "url": "https://www.loekalization.com/blog/blog/2026/04/22/crimson-desert-three-markets-three-narratives-one-game/", "published_at": "2026-04-22T20:25:25+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb79-6003-7341-8072-1a72b1d750ef", "title": "How Loekalization Shipped Dutch for Modulus at 100% Positive Reviews", "url": "https://www.loekalization.com/blog/blog/2026/04/14/how-loekalization-shipped-dutch-for-modulus-at-100-positive-reviews/", "published_at": "2026-04-14T14:24:03+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb79-6003-7341-8072-1a72b2797175", "title": "When Japanese Exists: but Doesn’t Yet Ship", "url": "https://www.loekalization.com/blog/blog/2026/04/07/when-japanese-exists-but-doesnt-yet-ship/", "published_at": "2026-04-07T13:14:12+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb79-6003-7341-8072-1a72b3629977", "title": "Grab It With Both Hands", "url": "https://www.loekalization.com/blog/blog/2026/03/30/grab-it-with-both-hands/", "published_at": "2026-03-30T12:40:03+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb79-6003-7341-8072-1a72b43ea7b1", "title": "Stand Out at Your Own Risk", "url": "https://www.loekalization.com/blog/blog/2026/03/27/stand-out-at-your-own-risk/", "published_at": "2026-03-27T06:18:07+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb79-6003-7341-8072-1a72b4412206", "title": "Even Rusty Robots Need a Buddy", "url": "https://www.loekalization.com/blog/blog/2026/03/26/even-rusty-robots-need-a-buddy/", "published_at": "2026-03-26T14:53:28+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb79-6003-7341-8072-1a72b517fb8b", "title": "Inside the Machine: How RWS Gutted the Company That Built It", "url": "https://www.loekalization.com/blog/blog/2026/03/26/inside-the-machine-how-rws-gutted-the-company-that-built-it/", "published_at": "2026-03-26T07:05:58+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog

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2026

A Talking Skull, a Communist Donkey and a Very Comfortable Coffin: Inside the Localization of Graveyard Keeper 2 original ↗

24 Sept 2026

Why 遊, 旅, 族 and 旗 All Fly the Same Flag original ↗

23 Sept 2026

A butterfly, an ultimatum and a spy walk into 言葉 original ↗

22 Sept 2026

The silk thread hidden in 変, 恋, 蛮 and 湾 original ↗

21 Sept 2026

Why 返 Began as a Hand Flipping a Stone original ↗

18 Sept 2026

One Open Mouth Behind 吹, 歌 and 飲 original ↗

17 Sept 2026

The Fire in 相談 Burns Mild original ↗

16 Sept 2026

The Good in 良 Is a Hallway original ↗

15 Sept 2026

Flip Eternity and It Splits original ↗

11 Sept 2026

The Sticks Before the Numbers original ↗

9 Sept 2026

The Lid That Became a Verb original ↗

7 Sept 2026

The Thick Before Thick original ↗

4 Sept 2026

The Saw in the Executioner’s Cabinet original ↗

2 Sept 2026

The Emperor’s Eye at the Bottom of a Valley original ↗

1 Sept 2026

The Character for I That Japanese Uses to Mean We original ↗

31 Aug 2026

催: The Mountain and the Bird in This Kanji Mean Nothing At All original ↗

28 Aug 2026

取: Why “Most” in Japanese Is a Pile of Severed Ears original ↗

27 Aug 2026

忙 Does Not Mean Your Heart Is Full. It Means Your Heart Is Gone.original ↗

19 Aug 2026

紹 Is Not a Polite Character. It Is Three Strands Forced Into One Rope.original ↗

18 Aug 2026

設 Is Not Made of Words. It Is a Stake Hammered Into the Ground.original ↗

14 Aug 2026

The Kanji With Too Many Readings To Count (And Why You Only Need One Picture)original ↗

13 Aug 2026

Review Was Never an Opinion. It Was a Weighing.original ↗

13 Aug 2026

Friend and Fight Are the Same Two Hands original ↗

13 Aug 2026

The dropdown that decides whether two of your characters can speak differently original ↗

10 Aug 2026

The Kanji for Battering Ram Is Also the Kanji for Bouncing a Ball original ↗

10 Aug 2026

The stadium Japan is watching is named after a turtle’s belly original ↗

10 Aug 2026

The Kanji for Creation Is a Knife Wound original ↗

6 Aug 2026

The Kanji for Center Is a Man Locked in a Wooden Collar original ↗

5 Aug 2026

The Kanji for Uncle Is a Hand Pulling Beans Out of the Dirt original ↗

4 Aug 2026

Crowdin Just Crowned a Man the Pioneer of an Idea He Demolished in 2021 original ↗

31 Jul 2026

The Kanji on Your Bad Fortune Slip Is a Person Falling Into a Pit original ↗

30 Jul 2026

The Kanji for Breathing In Is a Hand Grabbing a Runaway original ↗

29 Jul 2026

君: the hand that governs, the mouth that commands, and the boy in your class original ↗

27 Jul 2026

The Kanji for Victory Isn’t About Winning At All. It’s About Carrying Weight.original ↗

24 Jul 2026

The Kanji for Rare Hides a Bolt of Cloth You Can See Straight Through original ↗

23 Jul 2026

The Card in Your Hand Is a Shaving of Wood original ↗

21 Jul 2026

The Kanji for “Appear” Was the Last One to Appear original ↗

21 Jul 2026

That Is Not a Well in the Middle of 囲, Those Are Feet original ↗

21 Jul 2026

The Blabbermouth Is a Fluttering Leaf: お喋りな and the Hidden 枼 original ↗

16 Jul 2026

The Hand That Turns the Stone: Why 相反する Means Contradiction original ↗

16 Jul 2026

The Same Tree in Both Halves: 躁鬱病 (sōutsubyō)original ↗

16 Jul 2026

“A Universal Male Voice”: What Japan Is About To Say About AI Voice Cloning original ↗

13 Jul 2026

捨て置く: two kanji that both mean “set it down and walk away”original ↗

10 Jul 2026

Only Your Translator Can Judge Your Translation. Japan’s Government Just Explained Why.original ↗

10 Jul 2026

Where Money Still Remembers It Was Cloth original ↗

9 Jul 2026

光 Means Light. It Is a Person With Fire Burning Above Their Head.original ↗

8 Jul 2026

Building the Future, or Packaging It for Sale? Reading the RWS CEO in His Own Words original ↗

7 Jul 2026

The dog hiding inside 突く (to poke, to thrust)original ↗

7 Jul 2026

The Two Blades Inside a Beheading: 刎ねる (haneru)original ↗

7 Jul 2026

The Skeleton Hidden Inside “Almost”: 殆ど (hotondo)original ↗

3 Jul 2026

The Shop That Refused to Haggle: 掛け値なし (kakene nashi)original ↗

2 Jul 2026

Stacking Supermarket Shelves Pays Twice as Much as Localizing World of Warcraft original ↗

30 Jun 2026

The Whole Way Home, Said Side by Side: 道すがら (michisugara)original ↗

30 Jun 2026

Two Weapons Make a War, and the War Makes You Tremble: 戦 (ikusa)original ↗

29 Jun 2026

Lara Won’t Promise Not to Train on Your Translations original ↗

26 Jun 2026

The Toothless Rake That Became the Number Eight: 捌 (sabaku)original ↗

25 Jun 2026

Wedged In: A Bronze Spoon, a Mythical Bird, and the Japanese Word for Being Hooked original ↗

23 Jun 2026

又: The Right Hand Hiding Inside Friend and Take original ↗

22 Jun 2026

A Translator’s Name Is Not a Garbage Bin original ↗

19 Jun 2026

The Thorn Tree in Your Tea Box original ↗

19 Jun 2026

Soft as an Earlobe original ↗

17 Jun 2026

Magpie, she wrote original ↗

16 Jun 2026

履 – the kanji with a shoe hidden inside it original ↗

16 Jun 2026

We Were Aiming for Invisible. The Critics Called It “Incroyable.”original ↗

11 Jun 2026

繁盛する: a thriving business original ↗

10 Jun 2026

Phonopolis Has Launched, and the Japanese Bet Paid Off original ↗

10 Jun 2026

力を貸す: lend your strength original ↗

9 Jun 2026

The historian hiding in 使 original ↗

6 Jun 2026

You Can’t See the Mistake You Don’t Know Is a Mistake original ↗

4 Jun 2026

The Tree Inside the Taste original ↗

4 Jun 2026

The Box That Became a Letter original ↗

3 Jun 2026

The Clock You Can Actually Read original ↗

2 Jun 2026

The Tiger Was the Last Thing This Kanji Meant original ↗

1 Jun 2026

There is no tree in 煤 original ↗

26 May 2026

A Thread of Silk, Not a Thread of Water original ↗

25 May 2026

The Pivot You Were Never Taught original ↗

21 May 2026

The Shortcut That Works Exactly Once original ↗

21 May 2026

The Kanji Captain Tsubasa Was Hiding original ↗

21 May 2026

Garlic Came on a Camel original ↗

21 May 2026

A striped village hidden in a robe, cut at the bone original ↗

20 May 2026

There Is No Saw in 築 original ↗

18 May 2026

夜 Is Not a Moon. It Is a Setting Sun.original ↗

13 May 2026

Localization Debt Just Found Its Lender original ↗

11 May 2026

Eleven Days at #1: What KONAMI Knows About Japan That Your Localization Brief Doesn’t original ↗

6 May 2026

He Made a Visual Novel With AI in Four Days. We’re Watching It Fail Live on Steam.original ↗

5 May 2026

Why “Miracle” and “Weird” Are the Same Kanji in Japanese original ↗

5 May 2026

Why Japanese Has Two Words for Therapy original ↗

23 Apr 2026

Your family is armed (and they have been for 3000 years)original ↗

23 Apr 2026

Pickled in Drama: The Japanese Word for Your Netflix Weekend original ↗

23 Apr 2026

The Word Japan Used Today to Tell 182 Cities Not to Panic original ↗

23 Apr 2026

The Japanese word for everything you have ever shaped with your hands original ↗

23 Apr 2026

One Japanese Word, Three Meanings, Zero Memorization original ↗

23 Apr 2026

The Word That Holds Japan Together original ↗

23 Apr 2026

Crimson Desert: three markets, three narratives, one game original ↗

22 Apr 2026

How Loekalization Shipped Dutch for Modulus at 100% Positive Reviews original ↗

14 Apr 2026

When Japanese Exists: but Doesn’t Yet Ship original ↗

7 Apr 2026

Grab It With Both Hands original ↗

30 Mar 2026

Stand Out at Your Own Risk original ↗

27 Mar 2026

Even Rusty Robots Need a Buddy original ↗

26 Mar 2026

Inside the Machine: How RWS Gutted the Company That Built It original ↗

26 Mar 2026