Splashpress Media’s new media site 901am.com has recently launched a localized version for the Japanese market. In its announcement, it cites the prevalence of Japanese as the most used language for blogging in the latest report by Technorati.

901am explains that the translation is done by Ioix, and not automated translation tools. Ioix is also the company that runs the Blog Herald’s Japanese counterpart.

This is not a simple case of running 901am through any automatic translation websites. Ioix is humanly translating 901am.com’s important posts into Japanese.

Automatic translation has been considered to be lacking solution because of context problems. 901am and the Blog Herald both believe that human translation is a better way to reach out to more audiences who are not necessarily English speakers/readers.