Thanks to the effort and commitment of Jun Oshima from the faculty of informatics of Shizuoka university, the
Japanese index of the TEL Dictionary is now available. As in the case of other languages, Jun has met some problems with the meaning of words or even their existence in the Japanese lexicon. Together with his colleagues, Jun was for example much concerned with the difference in meanings between "epistemic" and "epistemological". It is actually a concern shared with several other translators in other languages. Now that we have a good corpus of translations, I suggest that we start exploring and understanding the impact of these linguistic issues which indeed goes beyond the words.
The creation of the Japanese index is the result of a team work under Jun leadership, contributors include Ritsuko Oshima, Shizuoka University; Etsuji Yamaguchi, Kobe University; Hiroyuki Masukawa, Shizuoka University; Toshio Mochizuki, Senshu University; Takeshi Kitazawa, Tokyo Future University; Moegi Saito, University of Tokyo; Hiroki Oura, Washington University
