# In-house Linguist (Japanese to English) 社内翻訳者 (日本語から英語)

**Company**: Keywords Studios
**Location**: Suginami City
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Language Services
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q64141679

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## Description

As a leading game localization company, Keywords Studios offers integrated text, audio localization, and localization QA for all regions, languages, and platforms.

The in-house Games Linguist position will be based at Keywords Tokyo. This is a unique opportunity to be part of a team focusing on videogames localization. You will be translating world-renowned games from Japanese into English.

Responsibilities:

- Translate, review & proofread content from Japanese into English to a high-quality standard.

- Create, review and maintain style guides, glossaries and translation memories.

- Fix linguistic bugs reported by the testing team.

- Provide support and linguistic feedback to internal & external teams.

- Assist with Review Reports and QA reports as needed.

Requirements:

- 2+ years’ experience as an in-house video games linguist or freelancer.

- Highly proficient in Japanese language.

- English-Language Proficiency Test C1 / C2 CEFR certification, higher than IELTS 8.0 or equivalent capability.

- Educational qualification in linguistics.

- Experience working with Cat Tools.

- Availability to work exclusively in-house from our Keywords Tokyo studio.

- Passion for videogames.

Benefits:

- Health insurance, welfare pension insurance, occupational accident insurance etc.

- Commuting costs are covered up to 30,000 JPY per month.

- Fukurikosei club.

- Employee Assistant Program.

- Free Japanese lesson.

- Holiday: Full weekly two-day system (Saturday and Sunday), Public holiday, Annual paid leave, Congratulations and condolences holiday etc.

## Skills

### Required
- Japanese
- English
- Linguistics
- Cat Tools

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