{"id":226363,"date":"2026-01-04T04:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T04:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/226363\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T04:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T04:18:10","slug":"japan-aims-to-stop-manga-piracy-with-ai-translation-training-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/226363\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan aims to stop manga piracy with AI translation training program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/1\/7.jpeg\" alt=\"20260103N Mantra Manga\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">AI technology for manga translation is evolving. (Photo by Mantra.\u00a0Balloon Dream \u00a9 Mitsuki Kuchitaka)<\/p>\n<p>SEISHI MINOWA and REIKA MIHARA<\/p>\n<p>January 4, 2026 02:11 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; Japan will support manga distribution overseas by fostering talent capable of quickly translating manga using artificial intelligence, part of an effort to prevent readers from turning to pirate sites that cost publishers billions of dollars in lost sales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AI technology for manga translation is evolving. (Photo by Mantra.\u00a0Balloon Dream \u00a9 Mitsuki Kuchitaka) SEISHI MINOWA and REIKA&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226364,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,23599,218,219,61,60,582,96276,116297,17492,48210,80,3683,302],"class_list":{"0":"post-226363","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-aims","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-artificialintelligence","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-japan","15":"tag-manga","16":"tag-piracy","17":"tag-program","18":"tag-stop","19":"tag-technology","20":"tag-training","21":"tag-translation"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}