Harry Inaba | I localize games into Japanese

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Harry Inaba | I localize games into Japanese

@178

Localized (translated and dubbed) AAA games like Mass Effect 1-2-3, Alan Wake, STAR WARS GALAXIES, GTA3, Couple BF games into Japanese. Passionate game player.

Yokohama, Japan Katılım Nisan 2007
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Harry Inaba | I localize games into Japanese
@ophaeron It's 25 years ago and I really don't remember if that's true or not. My ex-colleague told me I was the one who came up with the name Silent Hill but I don't know if it's true or not as well... I guess I have bad memory...
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‏َ@ophaeron·
@178 Inaba-san, could you confirm if the name "harry" mason was a tribute to you? it was originally going to be humbert mason, but was the change and choice to "harry" your decision? 😄
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Harry Inaba | I localize games into Japanese
Funny how things connect—working on the English version of Shenmue as casting director ended up helping me cast the right actors for Silent Hill 2 in Tokyo. I might start doing foreign voice recording again in Tokyo maybe not for AAA games but for indie games.
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@178 honestly? I dream of the possibility where you and michael g can work together on the voice acting of a future remake of the first silent hill I believe there wouldn't be as many technical limitations as before and michael could deliver a more refined harry mason
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Harry Inaba | I localize games into Japanese
While I’m not under NDA, I have no plans to tweet about what goes on behind the curtain of game development while I'm in the industry. That said, I’ll never forget the warmth I felt when Yu Suzuki offered me some bread he’d brought to a meeting. It was such a sweet moment.
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セイレイ@seirei526·
@178 𝑇ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑘 𝑦𝑜𝑢
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kaisap112@kaisap112·
@178 that are spread across all member states, though there isn't one big EU-wide union. Lots of state-specific stuff to consider, like income differences by country. It's pretty heavy jargon to a student like myself but the systems do exist and are taught about in schools/university.
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kaisap112@kaisap112·
@178 I'd love an international union with the resources to hold all corporations accountable. But having the EU around has kept McDonald's etc. from paying American-style non-liveable wages here, we have that at least.
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Carlos Macias
Carlos Macias@aduceclean·
@178 I work as a Healthcare Interpreter at LAC+USC Medical Center and we’re union. As freelance, I wasn’t part of a union though 🤔
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Harry Inaba | I localize games into Japanese
@kaisap112 I see. One problem with domestic union is, it has no or limited power against global corporations. Even if one country sets minimum wage, it won't have limited power to the clients outside the country.
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kaisap112@kaisap112·
@178 It is! There's been a lot of fighting over wages recently, namely in TV subtitling and sign language interpreters (low wages and outsourcing legally mandated work). The union has drawn up minimum wage amounts for X amount of work, rules for how much work is too much etc.
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I liek chocolate milk@cheddarized33·
@178 Using unions to stifle technology isn't cool. We have to figure out how to live without needing to work Nobody (in the translation world at least) this generation has to worry about this. Even AI gets better they'll need humans to verify it.
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Harry Inaba | I localize games into Japanese
@cheddarized33 Thank you for your comment. Yes, living without needing to work sounds cool. I personally think our generation of translators (I am 48 now) will see declining amount of work if we let big companies and vendors use AI translators.
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kaisap112@kaisap112·
@178 Finland has a union for translators and interpreters, but there's so few members (this is a small country) that it doesn't get much done yet. The effort very much exists, though.
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