{"id":81169,"date":"2014-04-14T16:05:33","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T07:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=48979"},"modified":"2016-04-01T02:51:47","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T17:51:47","slug":"fukuoka-company-to-start-thai-phone-interpreting-service","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/fukuoka-company-to-start-thai-phone-interpreting-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Fukuoka Company To Start Thai Phone Interpreting Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amid the increase in the number of Thai visitors, Fukuoka-based translation and interpreting agency BeBorn will launch a Thai telephone interpreting service on Apr. 14. Thai telephone interpreting is a rarity in Japan, and BeBorn expects to receive calls from hotels and rent-a-car companies having trouble communicating with Thai customers who can\u2019t speak Japanese. Initially, the service will be available year-round 8:00~20:00 with future plans to switch to a 24-hour service like the company already does for English, Chinese and Korean. BeBorn handles 1,000~1,500 interpreting requests every month, and according to its calculations, adding a Thai language service will allow it to offer support to 83% of foreign visitors to Japan. Source: Nishinippon Shimbun 4\/11<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/thai-may-2012-event-3-e1397459042335.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/thai-may-2012-event-3-e1397459042335.jpg?resize=640%2C480\" alt=\"thai-may-2012-event-3\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-48980\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nPhoto: (from unrelated event in 2012 <a href=\"http:\/\/fukuoka-now.com\/2012\/05\/thai-airways-and-tourism-authority-of-thailand-celebrate-20-years-in-fukuoka\/\">http:\/\/fukuoka-now.com\/2012\/05\/thai-airways-and-tourism-authority-of-thailand-celebrate-20-years-in-fukuoka\/<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid the increase in the number of Thai visitors, Fukuoka-based translation and interpreting agency BeBorn will launch a Thai telephone interpreting service on Apr. 14. Thai telephone interpreting is a rarity in Japan, and BeBorn expects to receive calls from hotels and rent-a-car companies having trouble communicating with Thai customers who can\u2019t speak Japanese. Initially, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-81169","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","news-category-business","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/81169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}