Some sweet comments from one of our wonderful clients - Hula. A lovely box of GrownUp Donuts as well….

It is truly humbling when your translation team sends ‘thank you’ emails.

We are really honoured to have wonderful people working with us.

Air NZ has announced the addition of NZ94 and NZ95 flights between New Zealand and Japan through to the end of March 2024.

Another successful Japan Sales Mission in April 2023. The Japan market is opening up again, with lots of opportunities for tourism and education.

Check out some of the highlights from our trip in this video.

North Asia CAPE, in conjunction with BTM, invited six young tourism leaders to participate in a Japan Tourism Study Tour, where we visited Tokyo and Beppu (famous for hot springs), as well as attending the Japan NZ Business Council Conference, joined the ‘Support Our Kids’ Charity event for youth involved in the Fukushima disaster in 2011. We also met with Tourism NZ and Air NZ staff in Japan.

The Japanese government has announced visa exemptions for 68 countries/regions including New Zealand are planned to resume from 12:00AM October 11th 2022.

A fun video showing all of our logos over the last 28 years…. How times change…. fortunately. ☺️

If you are trying to access a market like Japan, China, South Korea, etc, how can you prove that you are ‘fit for purpose’ when you don’t have a track record there…?

Videos with translated sub-titles and/or narration are powerful tools for your business. Here are a few pointers when developing videos for non-English speaking markets.

See our very simple explanation of the usages of the Chinese languages… Simplified Chinese, Mandarin, Traditional Chinese, Cantonese, Pinyin.

If you think that MANY of your potential customers MAINLY understand English, then what is your ‘customer experience’ likely to be for those that don’t? What are they likely to miss out on? What are you likely to miss out on?

In Japan, the ‘Solo Society’ is growing rapidly. The number of single-person households is rising, and this figure is predicted to grow to around 50% of the population by 2040…