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Our Work

Alongside the translation work, we have been building tools because we needed them. Here is what we use ourselves every day, and what people around us use.

Tools for business (available on request)

Tools that became necessary in the course of our translation and interpreting work, and are in daily use. If you face the same problem, we can set up the same arrangement for you after a consultation.

Small Business Systems — Development & Maintenance

Managing reservations, keeping daily records, jotting down inventory, maintaining a customer list — work that never justified a full-scale system, yet reliably eats into your day. We handcraft tools for exactly these "small troubles," one at a time.

  • Initial consultation Free
  • Development From ¥55,000 incl. tax (quoted by scope and content)
  • Monthly maintenance From ¥5,500 incl. tax (includes server operation, bug fixes, and small improvements)

Free consultation → Estimate → Development (a few days to a few weeks) → Delivery → Monthly maintenance

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  • Hatake Memo — a field-log app for farmers

    A work-and-shipment logging tool, usable on a smartphone, built for people farming in the neighborhood. Records can be made one-handed while standing in the field, and it works offline where the signal is weak. Features were pared down to the bare minimum, with a single goal: removing the chore of copying notes into a notebook after getting home. It is still running in daily farm work today.

    What it solvesNo more copying field notes into a notebook after getting home

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  • Our own business system (CRM · work records · accounting link)

    The business system we use to run our own company. Customer management (CRM), work notes, and financial data reference are unified in a local environment, supporting daily sales activity and bookkeeping. Whatever we propose to customers is something we have first used hard, every day, in our own business.

    What it solvesCustomers, work records and accounting reference in one place

  • Onboarding and safety templates for Chinese-speaking staff (restaurants) (JA)

    Practical bilingual Japanese–Chinese templates covering the hygiene, kitchen-safety and communication rules a Chinese-speaking member of staff needs on day one. Fill in your shop’s details and use them as they are.

    What it solvesOnboarding and safety training that is understood, not just explained

    Details (Japanese page)
04 Closed Beta

Learning Support System for Elementary Students

A browser-based home-study tool with gamification at its core

A browser-based progress tracker designed to support home learning for fifth-grade elementary students. It includes daily study plans, kanji tests, and achievement badges, using gamification to help children engage with their studies proactively.

What it solvesPreparing and keeping track of home-study materials

Early-access monitor program now open to 10 families (JPY 4,980 incl. tax, 3 months of use with personal onboarding support). See the product page for details. Japanese only.

Details & Application Free English worksheets (Japanese) →

Products you can try

In-house products open to try, or to apply for, right now.

03 Demo

Pet Record Management System

A growth-tracking and AI content-management tool for standard poodle families.

A pet growth-management system developed using an apricot standard poodle living in Japan as a real-world sample. It covers a dog profile; daily logs of meals, stool condition, walks, training, and mood; a care calendar for grooming, nail and paw trimming, ear cleaning, and tooth brushing; an auto-generated growth summary based on recent records; and a content generator that drafts posts and video titles for Xiaohongshu, YouTube Shorts, X, and Japanese pet diaries. It runs in the browser on both smartphone and PC.

Currently a v0.1 Demo. Data is stored only in your browser (localStorage) and is never sent to a server. No login required. The AI summary is, for now, generated locally by rules and does not constitute veterinary diagnosis. Planned extensions include login, cloud storage, image upload, multi-pet management, and full AI integration.

Updates
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AZ Lab

Things we make out of curiosity, apart from the work.

  • Kyokai Memo — a multilingual reference for the Mass liturgy

    A side-by-side reference tool for the order of Mass, being built for a church community whose members come from many countries. Japanese text and romanized readings are complete, and Vietnamese and English parallel texts are being added in stages. The aim: that those whose Japanese is still limited can chant along, together, on the spot.

01 Live

Kūkai — A Life Voyage

Turn the events of your life into voyages you translate by your own hand.

A browser-based text game. You are a ship at sea. Across five legs of the voyage you meet debt, fading passion, parting, ageing and other turns of fate. Each time, you decide how to "translate" the storm before you—reading it as "disaster" or "turning point" genuinely changes the state of your ship. There is no winning or losing, only how you face it. An ink-and-washi interface; about three minutes per voyage.

Currently an experimental version. The events, endings and details will be refined over time. After playing, we would love to hear which leg stayed with you.

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02 Live

Nature Field Guide (Hakubutsushi)

A digital field guide you light up, one creature at a time.

A browser-based illustrated guide to common birds, insects, plants, and reptiles of Japan. When you encounter and photograph a species in real life, you "light it up"—saving your own photo and field notes (date, place, observations). It is designed to feel like leafing through an old natural-history book, with a washi-paper surface and Mincho typography. All records are stored only on your own device and are never sent anywhere.

Currently an early, minimal public version. The species and descriptions include provisional information and will be reviewed and expanded over time.

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