In On Translating a Superstar Rampo's Japanese YA Crime Series at Publishing Perspectives Dennis Abrams has a Q & A with Dan Luffey, translator of Edogawa Rampo's The Fiend With Twenty Faces.
Luffey admits:
Luffey admits:
If I had a penny for every translation problem I've run into when translating Japanese into English, I'd be a very rich man.