Expanding by Brick and Pixel

Over the past few months, Han Translation has expanded its web store and translation capacity.

On the art side, several hundred new designs have been added to our product inventory. These range in language and style, as we have aimed to satisfy the diversified interests of our loyal customers. We are also considering other web store supply vendors, and hope to offer a new range of product types in the near future.

On the translation side, our Nagoya office has finished its relocation and expansion. This move was a needed step to facilitate the growth of our China-to-Japan business services. While we continue to operate our Chicago office, many of our resources have shifted to Asia. However, this has only given us more tools to better fulfill the needs of our global clients.

These are just a few of the exciting updates that we have been involved in with our translation and design work. All in an effort to add as much value as possible to what we do, which allows our clients to be even more successful at what they do best (and save on costs).

Need a Mailing Address in Dalian?

We proud to offer mail and package services in cooperation with our partner, Dalian Express. This is a complete turnkey solution for the receipt, collection, and forwarding of any postal items.

In addition, Han Translation can provide its private and secure language services in Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, and English for all your international correspondences.

Please contact us to find out how your business can have a permanent mailing address in Dalian for a low monthly fee.

Dalian Express: Mailbox and Mail Forwarding Service from China

Virtual Dalian

Han Translation is providing the language interface for a new hi-tech project that steps beyond the 2D Internet into a new 3D world. Virtual Dalian will be a complete digital reproduction of the famous Chinese city in the computer reality of Second Life. Iconic buildings from the historic central square are currently on display and open to the public. Walk around the streets or ride the vintage electric trolleys, while exploring this virtual world as an avatar - your digital self. Journey back in history to Russian or Japanese areas, or visit the modern locations that have transformed this vital seaport into a center for technology development.

Full scale construction of the city is currently underway, with extensive time spent on ensuring accurate and historic architectural details. Until completed, visitors are welcome to enter the finished locations, which function as 3D museums. Virtual travel guides, maps, brochures, and other digital gifts are also offered free to the public.

Just as Dalian is a historic venue in Real Life, Virtual Dalian is becoming an equally famous landmark in the Metaverse. The Virtual Dalian project was created exclusively by SongLi. The 3D experience provides another way to introduce the city to the world, for people unable to visit in person. Login to Second Life from your computer and enter a simulation of Dalian, all from the comfort of home.

Login to Virtual Dalian @ Second Life

Dalian Photobook by SongLi

Everyday Dalian: Life in Modern Manchuria. A former colony briefly founded by Russia but later developed over two generations by Japan, Dalian has always been a strategic hub for control of Northeast China. SongLi's photography collection about the city and its population has won multiple international awards. Each image captures the richness and color of the modern-day Manchurian metropolis, documenting its transition over six years.

The "slice of life" presentation, a hallmark style of SongLi, offers a new depth to the environments and people living in this historic port. These pictures also present an original artistic and realistic view of a community shaped by the turbulent legacy of its foreign occupation, and the aftermath of the bitter Chinese Civil War, to emerge as one of the leading cities in the country.

This book also comes with a foreword by Phil Borges. The humanitarian photographer is famous for his signature black and white portraits with hand tinted skin tones of endangered cultures around the world.

ISBN: 0-9763168-5-4 @ www.amazon.com / Pages: 264 / Photos: 252

The Radish and the Girl with Long Hair

Another classic folklore re-imagined into an original fairy-tale, "The Radish and the Girl with Long Hair" takes the reader on a fantastic journey to a distant Asian land. Farmers had moved near the high mountain to live because it provided everything they needed to prosper. But the fertile soil mysteriously turns barren. Crops wither and the people suffer from lack of water. One day while searching for food on the high mountain, a young girl with long hair makes a fantastic discovery. A magic radish stands as gatekeeper of a treasure that will save the land. However, before she can reveal the secret that will free her village, Long Hair Girl is captured by the god of the mountain.

http://www.digitalku.com/radish/

Xuemei Han brings this childrens' story to life with her unique and inspirational hand drawn illustrations. Her internationally award winning style is an innovative blend of traditional Chinese cultural paintings and Japanese Manga comics. This magical combination is the perfect match for a new generation of young readers interested in fables and fantasy stories from Asia. Order the book at Amazon.com

The Brave Little Mongolian Sisters

An original fairy-tale inspired by true events from the 1960s, "Brave Little Mongolian Sisters" is the heroic tale of two young nomadic girls in Northern Asia. Blossom and Jade provided for their sick parents by raising their poor family's sheep herd. Living in the desolate wilderness, the animals offered their only source of income. One winter their hard life becomes even more desperate, when the frail girls and their flock are attacked by an evil and hungry witch. The sisters struggle against many hardships and the icy elements to protect their sheep, and defy the menacing threat that continues to chase them.

http://www.digitalku.com/sisters/

Xuemei Han brings this childrens' story to life with her unique and inspirational hand drawn illustrations. Her internationally award winning style is an innovative blend of traditional Chinese cultural paintings and Japanese Manga comics. This magical combination is the perfect match for a new generation of young readers interested in fables and fantasy stories from Asia. Order the book at Amazon.com

From Davos To Dalian

The World Economic Forum (based in Geneva, Switzerland), is using the DiscoverDalian.com website as its official introduction and guide for Dalian. The city will be the first host location in China and outside of Davos. The "Inaugural Annual Meeting of the New Champions" is from 6-8 September 2007. Photography by SongLi and language services by Han Translation will also be utilized by international members attending this global conference.

ANIMA: a novel about Second Life

A dark tale that weaves a fictionalized reality with the real history and environments in the virtual computer world of Second Life. Ben Tao is the avatar of a fired programmer who hacks Second Life. His goal is to profit from a false intellectual property claim. However, instead of changing the creation date for the items he has stolen, he is actually sending them back in time to the creation of the 3D world. This software exploit opens a wormhole of conflicting realities that unfold in a disjointed nightmare. Ben quickly finds himself controlled by an entity who robs him of all free will. Or is he just going insane? As the digital and real worlds merge in his mental interchange, he uncovers a secret that affects all of humanity. From this bleak future, Ben has only one chance to escape.

anima (n.) Psychology. Jung's term for the feminine part of a man's personality. Often contrasted with "animus." The part of the psyche that is directed inward, and is in touch with the subconscious. Often contrasted with "persona." ORIGIN 1920s: from Latin, literally "mind, soul."

Second Life(R) and Linden Lab(TM) are trademarks or registered trademarks of Linden Research, Inc. No infringement is intended.

http://www.digitalku.com/anima/

Architect For IBM BeNeLux

The Han Translation design team has teamed with Tretiak Media (tretiakmedia.com) to build a new virtual island for IBM BeNeLux in Second Life.

It is the next "Big Thing" for IBM in the 3D world, adding a new and unique location within the virtual IBM vBusiness family.

The IBM BeNeLux Island will be a combination R&D lab and communications center for the BeNeLux division and its clients. Its concept and design blend the innovation of IBM with the virtual opportunities offered in Second Life.

An environment for both work and play, IBM BeNeLux Island is a step towards the next generation of IBM's social interaction, commitment and operation in Second Life.

IBM BeNeLux Island 135, 103, 54

vBusiness Developer

Han Translation has extended its services in the Metaverse by forming a strategic partnership with SLQ (SLQuery.com), and is responsible for all of its 2D translation work and virtual 3D designs inside Second Life.

SLQ is a complete search and data integration platform connecting the virtual and real worlds. SLQ infoBOX: the free notecard/prim driven catalog server. SLQ infoHUD: this powerful search engine includes a spell check, encyclopedia, and a wealth of external sources like blogs, amazon.com, wikipedia, and news feeds that are text driven, URL linked, and have pop-up display images. SLQ infoStation: just like the infoHUD, but unplugged for public use. Plus, it has a powerful SL to RL web-based IM system. Chat with anyone in SL even when you cannot log in. MySLQ: all your listings are automatically generated into a mini web page for display in your SL web profile tab. SLQ is fully integrated with SL Exchange (SLX) for listing products and searches.

SLQ: Explore Your Life
http://www.slquery.com

A Magazine For The Metaverse

Han Translation is the official Japanese language translation company and design shop for the new Second Life magazine, SL Business. Combining the Meta, Cyber, and Real Worlds, Han Translation sets another historic landmark as the creative force behind a bilingual publication that distributes "From Prim To Print."

The SL Business Magazine will launch Issue One on August 1st. Please visit the web site for a full range of options for viewing this new Virtual publication, in English and Japanese.

SL Business
The Premiere Virtual Branding Magazine

http://www.slbusinessmag.com

Our Virtual Shop

Han Translation Gifts has taken CafePress and its concept to a new dimension, the virtual one. We have established an online shop in the highly popular MMOG (Massively Multiplayer Online Game) SECOND LIFE.

http://www.cafepress.com/hantranslation/1373990

Whichever World our customers spend their time, our products can go with them. All merchandise from our CafePress store now exists in SECOND LIFE. It is an online society within a 3D world where players can explore, build, socialize, and participate in their own economy.

Han Translation Gifts is the first CafePress shop to cross over into this new world, and offer our products in this highly popular simulated-life community.

A virtual T-shirt for your day at the beach? A virtual framed print for your new apartment near the Phoenicia Art Gallery. Or even a mug and mousepad for your virtual office? What ever you buy here in First Life, we will give you there for FREE.

Don't belong to Second Life yet? No problem. That is free to join also! Get a Membership now!