Marlin Arms Corporation is based in Tokyo, Japan, and was founded in January 1993. We specialize in natural language processing both by human and by software.

Contact

You can contact us from contact page (<- click the link).

Software Development

Dictionary Site

You can try DictJuggler.net for translators, writers and editors, where you can find the following dictionaries:

  • Japanese-English and English-Japanese Translation Dictionary
  • Japanese-English and English-Japansese Economics and Financial Translation Dictionary
  • Japanese-English and English-Japansese Environmental Translation Dictionary
  • Translation Thesaurus for Japanese and English

Machine Translation Software

We have been developing machine translation software since the foundation of our company. In corporation with software companies in Japan, South Korean and China, and we have developed translation system of the following language pairs: English to Japanese, Japanese to English, English to Korean, Korea to English, and English to Chinese.

Two members of our company were selected as candidates of most prominent software engineers by Information-technology Promotion Agency (a Japanese government sponsored institution for supporting computer industry), and engaged in developing the kernel of next generation machine translation software, receiving grant from the institution. We are looking for development partners for further development.

Human Translation and Writing

We have published more than fifty books includeing:
    By Hiroyuki MUSHA:

  • Learning Go 2nd edition by Jon Bodner
  • GPT-3: The Ultimate Guide To Building NLP Products With OpenAI API by Sandra Kublik and Shubham Saboo; the translator updated the content to include GPT-4 usage
  • Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML 4 in 14 Days and Teach Yourself Java in 21 Days by Laura Lemay, worldwide best sellers
  • Insanely Great: The Life and Times of Macintosh, the Computer That Changed Everything by Steven Levy. The translation was originally published in 1994, and has been republished in 2002, gathering a lot of requests from readers (and readers-to-be)

    By Rumi MUSHA:

  • Remembering Babylon by David Malouf
  • Where Life and Death Holds Hands by , which won Prime Minister's Awards for Publishing from Canadian Embassy in Japan
  • Myths to Live by and The Flight of the Wild Gander by Joseph Campbell, a well-known mythologist

You can find the detailed description of the books we translated and authored in the Japanese top page.

Board Members

Hiroyuki MUSHA

President

He has been developing machine translation software and has engaged in developing one of the major English-Japanese and Japanese-English translation packages widely used in Japan. He also has (human-) translated more than fifty books on computer software and related topics, and has authored two books on machine translation and programming, a textbook for (human) technical translators, and co-authored a book on English education.

He was selected as one of the candidates of most prominent software engineers by Information-technology Promotion Agency (a Japanese government sponsored institution for supporting computer industry), and our company continues developing the kernel of next generation machine translation software.

He holds a B. A. from International Christian University in Mathematics and an M. S. in Computer Science from Yamanashi University. He is a Ph. D. candidate at Tokyo Institute of Technology. During his Ph. D. research, he studied at Ohio State University and Carnegie-Mellon University in U. S. A.

Rumi MUSHA

Vice President

She has translated more than forty books including:

  • Remembering Babylon by David Malouf,
  • Where Life and Death Holds Hands by William Allister, which won Prime Minister's Awards for Publishing from Canadian Embassy in Japan, and
  • Myths to Live by (co-translated) and The Flight of the Wild Gander both by Joseph Campbell, a well-known mythologist.

She holds a B. A. in English Literature from Gakushuin University.