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About Crimson Japan

For over 20 years, Crimson Japan has helped businesses communicate across borders, supporting Japanese companies expanding overseas and global companies entering Japan. What began as a translation service has grown into a full suite of multilingual solutions: translation, localization, interpretation, transcription, editing, and AI-powered language technology.

Every project draws on a network of 3,000+ contracted translators, editors, and linguists. This means we can assign a specialist who genuinely understands your subject matter, not just your language pair.

Four international certifications cover our translation processes, quality management, and data security, so you can trust both the quality of the work and the safety of your information.

Crimson Japan rating

Excellent!

We use Crimson Japan often, and the quality of their work is consistently outstanding. The translation style and accuracy never disappoint. They turned the quality level we were aiming for into reality.
Abbott Informatics Asia Pacific Ltd. Desiree LuiAbbott Informatics Asia Pacific Ltd.
Crimson Japan rating

It exceeded our expectations.

Crimson Japan was the best possible partner in helping us reach our goals. Subject-matter experts, DTP specialists, and technical staff worked as one team and delivered the project at a level even we had not anticipated.
IBM Watson Health IBM Watson Health

Comprehensive Language Solutions

As a Japanese translation company, we have served more than 200,000 clients worldwide over the past decade. Alongside industry terminology, we offer a deep bench of translators with genuine subject knowledge in each field.

The Experts Behind Every Translation

Your project is handled by a translator with specialized knowledge of its subject matter, ensuring high-quality results that hold up even on technical terminology. Crimson Japan applies strict recruitment standards and works with a network of 3,000 skilled, experienced translators. Timely translator feedback and our quality management systems keep output consistently high, and we can work flexibly around your budget and deadline.

Crimson Japan translator with a PhD in muscle biology PhDMuscle Biology

43+ years experience Japan

Crimson Japan translator with an MS in religious studies MSReligious Studies

23+ years experience Japan

Crimson Japan translator with an MBA in international business MBAInternational Business

10+ years experience United States

Crimson Japan translator with a PhD in veterinary science PhDVeterinary Science

8+ years experience United States

Language Solutions Across Every Sector

Crimson Japan supports the full range of your multilingual requirements, from website, software, and game localization to interpretation, audio-video services, and AI-powered translation. Working with a single provider ensures consistent terminology and quality across all your content.

What Our Clients Say

Crimson Japan delivers precise, high-quality translation, and our clients rate us at 99.46% satisfaction. Here are a few examples of the work we have done.

Pharmaceutical SOP translation case study

Translated 121 SOP files, more than 400,000 characters, for one of the world's leading pharmaceutical companies.

Discovery Education video localization case study

Localized an average of 200+ videos and over 100,000 words of content each month, including video dubbing.

Fukushima Medical University book translation case study

Carrying the story of Fukushima to the world and to future generations: English translation through to typesetting for a record of relief work after the Great East Japan Earthquake.

Languages We Support

Crimson Japan delivers accurate translation in more than 200 languages.

Data Security at Crimson

We have a range of measures in place to keep your documents and data secure.

  • Robust servers and backups
  • Real-time data deletion
  • High availability and redundancy
  • Encrypted data exchange with clients
  • Regular in-house data security training
  • ISMS- and PCI DSS-compliant firewalls
  • Secure platforms for file transfer
  • Regular vulnerability testing

Why Clients Choose Crimson

Our quality-first Japanese-to-English and English-to-Japanese translation services assign a specialist matched to your subject area. As a translation company, we also apply the latest technology to deliver high-quality work quickly.

Subject-Specialist Translators

Your document is handled by a translator holding a degree, research background, or qualification in the same field, so the result is accurate in both content and language.

After-Sales Support You Can Rely On

If you are not satisfied with a translation, we will keep revising the delivered work until you are, even after the project closes. Questions about your document can be submitted in Japanese.

ISO 17100:2015 Certified

Our translation processes, quality management, and translator competencies are certified under ISO 17100:2015, the international standard for translation services.

150 In-House Native Checkers

150 native English checkers working in-house, plus a network of more than 2,000 translators across time zones, let us deliver high-quality translation fast.

Our ISO Certifications

As a Japanese translation company serving clients and business partners worldwide, we hold a range of certifications so we can consistently meet their expectations.

ISO 17100:2015 certified

ISO 17100:2015

International Standard for
Translation Services

ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certified

ISO/IEC 27001:2022

Information Security
Management System

ISO 13485:2016 certified

ISO 13485:2016

Medical Devices Quality
Management System

ISO 9001:2015 certified

ISO 9001:2015

Quality
Management System

Frequently Asked Questions

Crimson Japan provides end-to-end multilingual solutions including document translation, website localization, software and app localization, game localization, legal and technical translation, marketing transcreation, and audio-video localization. All services are available in 200+ languages, with specialists assigned by subject matter and industry.

Crimson Japan operates a proprietary, self-managed AI translation engine. Your data never leaves our controlled infrastructure, it is never used to train third-party models, and the engine itself has been refined using input from our expert translator network, making it significantly more accurate for specialist and technical content.

We provide simultaneous interpretation, consecutive interpretation, and whisper interpretation. Services are available for conferences, board meetings, legal proceedings, medical consultations, product launches, and business negotiations across 200+ languages.

The best way to get an accurate price for your project is to fill up our quotation form. Once you fill it we will give you a consultation absolutely free of costs with no obligations.

Yes. While we are based in Japan and specialise in Japanese language services, we serve clients globally. International companies use our services to localise content for the Japanese market, and Japanese companies use us to communicate across markets in Asia, Europe, the Americas, and beyond. All client communication, project management, and support is available in English.

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