> 1) Some Japanese programmers might be able to translate directly to idiomatic > English. That's a possibility, but the likelihood of a Japanese person being able to translate directly to "idiomatic" English is very slim, since it requires basically native-level fluency. I'm an accredited translator (Portguese into English) with the American Translators Association, and am in contact with a lot of Brazilians and Portuguese people, who speak a language that is much more similar to English that Japanese, yet I still don't know a single one of them who can translate into their second language (English) at native-level ability. > > 2) American people are not the only native English speakers in the world :-) True! There are the British, some areas of India, Australia and South Africa, to name a few, but nobody that hasn't been raised in an English speaking country can claim to be a "native" English speaker :) Carl Youngblood