Japan-based AI data operations

Build AI that
understands Japan.

High-quality Japanese training data for LLMs, NLP, speech, vision and multimodal AI — annotated and reviewed by Japan-based specialists.

NLP LLM / RLHF Speech Vision Multimodal
Annotation Task #87231 Japanese (ja)
Task Guidelines History Comments Metrics

Japanese text

Intent Polite refusal
Literal sentiment Neutral
Contextual meaning Negative / Refusal
Reviewer agreement 98%

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Context

A conversation in which a colleague’s proposal is being declined politely.

Speaker intent

Decline the proposal while staying considerate of the other person.

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Reviewed by Senior Annotator K.T. Approve

Interface illustration — sample task, not client data.

Native Japanese

Japan-based annotators who understand language, culture and nuance.

Multi-layer QA

Expert review, consensus checks and continuous quality calibration.

Enterprise Security

Strict access control, encryption and secure workflows.

Flexible Scale

From pilot projects to production-scale annotation.

Japanese expertise

Japanese isn’t just
another language.

A single phrase can carry multiple meanings based on context, relationship, and tone. Our data captures the nuance AI needs to truly understand Japan.

Kanji Hiragana Katakana Romaji

Read the guide

Daijōbu desu.

Multiple meanings, one phrase.

Hover a meaning to see the context that selects it.

Capabilities

Data for every stage of your AI lifecycle.

Annotation and data labeling across text, speech, vision and multimodal Japanese data — delivered in JSONL, CSV, CoNLL-U or your own schema.

01

LLM & Generative AI

  • Instruction tuning data
  • RLHF / Preference data
  • Safety & Red teaming
  • Evaluation datasets

02

Japanese NLP

  • Intent & Entity annotation
  • Sentiment & Emotion
  • NLI / Paraphrase
  • NER & Relations

03

Speech & Conversation

  • ASR Transcription
  • Intent & Slot labeling
  • Dialogue act annotation
  • Speaker attributes

04

Vision & Multimodal

  • Image classification
  • OCR & Document understanding
  • Video annotation
  • Cross-modal alignment

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Domain expert annotation

When AI needs more
than language skills.

Specialized AI requires specialized human knowledge. We build annotation and evaluation teams with the domain expertise a project actually calls for — from legal and tax to accounting, labor, finance and beyond.

AI systems working in regulated fields need more than fluent Japanese. They need people who know the terminology, the regulations, the workflows and the judgment criteria of the field. We support expert-driven annotation, evaluation, verification and dataset creation for AI projects that require specialized knowledge of Japan.

Professional domains

Legal

Lawyers

Japanese law, contracts, regulations and legal reasoning.

  • Legal document annotation
  • Legal response verification
  • Contract classification
  • Legal reasoning evaluation
Tax

Tax Accountants

Japanese taxation, tax procedures and professional tax knowledge.

  • Tax question evaluation
  • Tax document classification
  • AI response validation
  • Tax terminology annotation
Accounting

Certified Public Accountants

Accounting standards, financial statements, auditing and corporate finance.

  • Financial statement interpretation
  • Accounting data classification
  • Accounting response review
  • Audit-related dataset evaluation
Labor & HR

Labor & Social Security Specialists

Japanese Labor and Social Security Attorneys (Sharoshi)

Labor regulations, social insurance, payroll and HR compliance.

  • Labor law datasets
  • Employment regulation annotation
  • Social insurance classification
  • Payroll-related AI evaluation
Registration

Judicial Scriveners

Corporate registration, real estate registration and legal procedures.

  • Corporate registration datasets
  • Real estate registration datasets
  • Legal document classification
  • Procedural QA evaluation

Other specialized domains

Terminology, formality and edge cases differ by industry. We build the lexicon with your team before production starts.

  • Finance
  • Legal
  • Healthcare
  • E-commerce
  • Customer Support
  • Travel
  • Technology

We do not maintain a standing roster of licensed professionals. We build each annotation team around the expertise a project requires, and availability is assessed against its scope, volume, specialization and timeline. If a qualification cannot be sourced for your project, we will tell you before it starts.

Expertise levels

The right expertise for every task.

Expert review is not always the right answer. We match the level of expertise to what the task genuinely needs, so budget goes where judgment is actually required.

Level 01

General Annotators

For tasks that need Japanese language proficiency but no specialized professional knowledge.

ClassificationTranscriptionBasic labelingContent review

Level 02

Domain-Specialized Annotators

For tasks that need practical or academic knowledge of a particular industry.

FinanceHealthcareManufacturingBusiness operations

Level 03

Professional Experts

For tasks that need advanced domain knowledge, professional experience or a specific qualification.

LawyersTax AccountantsCPAsSharoshiJudicial Scriveners

Process

Raw Data → Model Ready

A repeatable pipeline with defined deliverables at every step, so quality is designed in rather than inspected at the end.

01

Define

We define goals, schema and guidelines together.

02

Annotate

Japan-based annotators create high-quality labels.

03

Review

Expert reviewers validate and resolve edge cases.

04

Calibrate

We measure, analyze and continuously calibrate.

05

Deliver

You receive model-ready data in your format.

Quality

Quality isn’t
a final check.
It’s the system.

We instrument quality at every step and share the metrics that matter.

Inter-annotator agreement, gold-set accuracy and a documented error taxonomy turn quality from an opinion into a number you can act on. Disagreements are resolved in writing and feed straight back into the guidelines.

Our Quality Framework

Quality overview

Sample QA Dashboard

Agreement

97.8%

2.1% vs last 7 days

Gold-set accuracy

98.6%

1.4% vs last 7 days

Items reviewed

24826

18.7% this week

Open disagreements

18

12 vs last 7 days

Label drift (30 days)

Observed drift Alert threshold
0%2.5%5% Day 1Day 8Day 15Day 22Day 30

Quality summary

  • Guideline adherence
  • Reviewer calibration
  • Outlier monitoring
  • Drift detection

Illustrative interface. The figures shown are sample data used to explain how we monitor quality, not reported results.

Human-in-the-loop

The best results
come together.

AI speed with human judgment — that’s human-in-the-loop.

AI-assisted

  • Pre-annotation suggestions
  • Consistency checks
  • Anomaly detection
  • Active learning

Human-
in-the-loop

Human expertise

  • Cultural & contextual judgment
  • Nuance & intent understanding
  • Edge case resolution
  • Accountability & ethics

Security

Your data
stays your data.

Enterprise-grade security and full transparency.

NDA

We sign NDAs and DPAs to protect your confidential information.

Controlled Access

Role-based access, least privilege and MFA enforced.

Secure Workspace

Isolated environment, encrypted in transit and at rest.

Data Lifecycle

Retention controls, secure deletion and auditable logs.

Controls are agreed per engagement and written into the contract. We describe what we actually operate — if you need a specific certification or audit scheme, ask us and we will tell you plainly whether we hold it.

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Proof

Proven impact, built in Japan.

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Representative project

Japanese LLM Training

High-quality instruction and preference data designed for Japanese-language model training, with safety guidelines and a versioned taxonomy locked before production.

LLMRLHFJapaneseInstruction Tuning
Representative project

Enterprise Document AI

End-to-end annotation for Japanese documents, forms and structured extraction use cases, covering entity, field and relation labels.

OCRNERClassificationDocument AI

Anonymized examples that describe the type of work we deliver. Client names and figures are withheld under NDA.

Engagement

Start small. Scale when it works.

Every engagement begins with a scoped pilot so taxonomy and quality are proven before volume ramps.

Pilot

Validate taxonomy, guidelines and quality.

Best for
New projects and model experiments.
Start a Pilot

Production

Continuous annotation with defined QA gates.

Best for
Scaling training datasets.
Discuss Production

Dedicated Team

Managed Japanese annotation specialists.

Best for
Long-term AI programs.
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FAQ

Questions we get before a pilot.

If something here is not covered, send it with your request and we will answer it directly.

We cover formal and informal Japanese across kanji, hiragana, katakana and romaji, including honorific registers, regional variation, slang and industry jargon. Normalization rules for punctuation, emoji and full-width characters are agreed during kickoff so tokenization stays consistent.

Turnaround depends on volume, linguistic complexity and QA depth. We scope a pilot first, measure the real throughput on your data, and then commit to a delivery plan rather than a guess.

No fixed minimum. We support small pilots and scale to high-volume production programs; practical minimums depend on task complexity and tooling setup.

Yes. We work inside client-provided tools and platforms, or in our own secure labeling environment when you would rather not provision accounts.

JSONL, CSV, CoNLL-U and custom schemas defined at kickoff. Delivery includes the label taxonomy version and a change log for every batch.

Revisions run through the same QA pipeline as first-pass work. Change logs, QA reports and targeted re-labeling keep datasets consistent across versions instead of drifting between batches.

NDAs and data processing agreements, role-based access with least privilege, isolated working environments, and retention and deletion policies aligned to your requirements.

Yes — instruction tuning data, preference and ranking labels, safety and red-teaming annotation, evaluation sets, and human-in-the-loop review of model output in Japanese.

Yes — for projects that need it, we build teams around the required domain expertise, which can include people with relevant qualifications or practical experience in fields such as law, tax, accounting, labor and social security, or corporate registration. We do not keep a standing roster; availability is assessed per project against its scope, volume and timeline, and we confirm what is achievable before starting.

Yes. Expert annotators can score generated responses for factual accuracy, reasoning quality, professional appropriateness and compliance with your criteria — and can produce preference rankings for RLHF, benchmark sets, RAG evaluation and red-teaming work.

Guidelines are drafted at kickoff, stress-tested during the pilot on real edge cases, then locked as a versioned document. Every disagreement resolved in review is written back into that document.

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Need Japanese expertise for your AI?

Tell us what your model
needs to understand.

We design the annotation and evaluation workflow around your domain, data, quality requirements and scale — from general annotation to domain-expert evaluation.

  • We reply within one business day.
  • NDA before you share any data.
  • Pilot scoping is free.

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Tell us about the data and we will come back with a scoped pilot plan.

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