A London-based native Japanese-French speaker: --------- RATES --------- from English: $0.10 per English word https://www.charactercountonline.com/ The average standard to-Japanese translation rate per English word is $0.13: A rate per Japanese word is difficult to establish -- scholars disagree as to what counts as a word in Japanese, a language which has no "space". Instead of words, we can refer to characters (Hiragana, Katakana, Kanji, and Romaji / Roman Alphabet). Some of the commonly recognized translation ratios between English words and Japanese characters are... -- 1:2.2 for general materials (newspaper articles, novels) -- 1:3.0 for materials with no direct Japanese equivalents (video games, chemical patents), due to the need for a higher proportion of Katakana -- 1:1.7 for materials with mostly direct Japanese equivalents (classical Japanese literature) http://www.futureimplications.com/ratios/ratios.htm That is, for general materials, a translation rate per English word of $0.10 equates to a translation rate per Japanese character of $0.22. I can work for $0.20.