To the Japanese, languages such as English are legalistic and rudely direct and specific. Japanese tends to be ambiguous and the Japanese tend to not directly s

To the Japanese, languages such as English are legalistic and rudely direct and specific. Japanese tends to be ambiguous and the Japanese tend to not directly say what they mean, since that would be rude and exclude the listener. Translating Japanese to English usually requires creatively interpreting the meaning of the kanji characters and the intent of the writer. Teasing out the meaning of some complicated kanji can be difficult, so it seems pretty common to just make something up that sounds reasonable. I've worked on translations that were over 60% completely made up.