Translation company - translation company

Japanese: 会訳社 - かいやくしゃ
Translation company - translation company

…He had a great talent for languages, and was proficient in Dutch studies as well as English and French. He published many translations and contributed to the introduction of Western academic studies. At Kaiseisho, he translated various foreign newspapers, including the Yokohama Concession Newspaper, and formed the translation company with his comrades as a center for transcription information. In February 1868, during the Boshin War, he launched the Chugai Shimbun as an extension of the translation company's work. …

*Some of the terminology used in reference to "Kaiyakusha" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…語学の才能が豊かで,蘭学のほか英語,フランス語にも熟達し,多数の翻訳書を出版して西欧学術の導入に貢献した。開成所では職務として横浜の居留地新聞をはじめ各種の海外新聞の翻訳に従事し,かたわら同志と会訳社を結成して,筆写情報のセンターとしていた。戊辰戦争中の68年2月,会訳社の事業の延長として《中外新聞》を創刊する。…

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