I just gave the Japanese to English a quick check, and it's no better than Google or anything else I've seen. And by that I mean it completely loses the meaning

I just gave the Japanese to English a quick check, and it's no better than Google or anything else I've seen. And by that I mean it completely loses the meaning of anything but the most simple sentences. I know Japanese to English is going to be harder than languages with similar structure, but I'd still expect machine translations to be farther along than they are now.