Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Ryosei Akazawa complained to X about its automatic translation on Friday, after a post about a meeting with a foreign leader came out with the wrong name in English, he told a news conference after a cabinet meeting.
Akazawa said he met Bangladesh Prime Minister Rahman on October 28 and posted about it in Japanese. The automatic English translation replaced her name with that of former Prime Minister Hasina, he said. He found out after a series of people pointed it out.
He asked for a correction and the post has been fixed. "It gives the impression that Japan's industry minister doesn't know who our country's prime minister is," Akazawa said.
“I would like platforms that mistranslate people's names to make fundamental improvements.”Ryosei Akazawa, economy, trade and industry minister
X, formerly Twitter, runs automatic translation on posts written in other languages. The minister's complaint lands on a platform that governments and diplomats use to publish statements in public.