Japanese-speaking translators, city by city

Where these came from

These come from 23 different sources, led by the Romanian Ministry of Justice (104), JUCESP, the São Paulo state commercial board (29) and the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Justice (Sở Tư pháp TP. Hồ Chí Minh) (16). A consular list records the language because the mission publishes it for its own citizens, which is why Japanese turns up in 20 countries rather than only where Japanese is spoken.

Every one of these sits on an official list, published by a body with nothing to sell.

Where we have nothing

We list translators in 283 further cities with no Japanese speaker recorded, among them Madrid (767), Wrocław (274), Mexico City (244) and Barcelona (222). That is a gap in what has been published, not proof that nobody there works in Japanese.

Questions

How many Japanese-speaking translators does this page list?

209, in 39 cities. That is the number whose working language we can trace to a published source.

Where are most of them?

Bucharest with 104, São Paulo with 29 and Ho Chi Minh City with 15. Together that is 71% of the page.

Does a listing mean the translator speaks Japanese personally?

Not always. Some sources name a practice whose staff include a Japanese speaker rather than the named person, and each card quotes the wording its source used.

All 322 cities where we list translators, whatever the language.