| Apr. 1987 |
Founded NOVA Inc., a software development company and forerunner. |
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| Oct. 1989 |
Released Transer, English to Japanese translation software for UNIX Workstation. |
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| Nov. 1991 |
Released PC-Transer/ej, the first English to Japanese translation software for PC-98 computers. |
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| May, 1998 |
Founded NOVA Asia Inc., a sales company. |
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| Apr. 2001 |
Launched human translation projects. |
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| Jan. 2002 |
Released [email protected], an in-house translation server. |
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| Oct. 2002 |
A merger of equals between NOVA Asia Inc. and NOVA Inc., renamed to become Cross Language Inc. |
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| Sept. 2004 |
Released [email protected], a translation API system. |
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| Feb. 2005 |
Yahoo! Japan adopted translation API and launched Yahoo translator. |
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| Jun. 2006 |
Rakuten adopted translation API and launched Infoseek multi-translator. |
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| Apr. 2008 |
So-net adopted translation API and launched So-net translation. |
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| Jun. 2009 |
Launched [email protected], a homepage translation service. |
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| Sept. 2009 |
Rakuten's Global Market adopted [email protected] |
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| Nov. 2011 |
Launched [email protected] direct, an overseas contents distribution service. |
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| Dec. 2011 |
Launched 365 Honyaku, an internet translation service. |
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| Apr. 2012 |
Received translation requests from the Japan Tourism Agency and National Tax Agency |
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| Sept. 2012 | Launched Facebook admin services including monitoring and managing |
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| Oct. 2012 | Received requests from the Patent Office to translate Chinese patents |
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| Nov. 2012 | Announced Chinese patent translating engine |
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| Apr. 2013 | Moved head office to Kioicho Park Bldg., 3-6 Kioicho, Chiyoda-ku |
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| Nov. 2014 | Provided translation engine for RICOH Document Translation Service, RICOH's machine translating service. |
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| Jan. 2015 | Providing a translation engine for the "Chinese and Korean Gazette Translation and Search System" for patent offices developed by Hitachi, Ltd.. |
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| Aug. 2015 | Absorption-type merger with ITAS Inc., a translation company |
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| Sept. 2015 | Provided translation engine to Samurai Japan's official website, the Japanese national baseball team. |
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| Jul. 2016 | Released a Japanese-Thai bidirectional machine translation system |
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| Aug. 2016 | Opened new office in Kansai |
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| October, 2017 | Free translation page "CROSS-Transer" service starts |
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| January, 2018 | Added AI translation neural translation function (beta release) to free translation site "CROSS-Transer" |
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| February, 2019 | Started new Internet translation service "Simple Translation" |
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