Services

  • Business advisory for Japan

Directly and together with a wide network of like-minded business specialists, Decision Japan can offer business advisory services, consulting and mentoring, facilitation, representation, cultural awareness training and research using Japanese language sources.

  • Operational assistance in Australia market

Primarily offered to Japanese firms seeking assistance in the Australian market. See Japanese website.

  • Non-executive director

Principal Anita Byrnes has considerable experience as a non-executive director in the Chamber of Commerce (Australian and New Zealand Chamber of Commerce in Tokyo, ANZCCJ) and community organization field, and is actively seeking additional directorships. She is currently Vice-President of the Australia-Japan Society of NSW (AJS-NSW) and a Board member of the National Federation of Australia-Japan Societies (NFAJS).

  • Technical translation (Japanese to English)

Anita Byrnes is fluent in the Japanese language and is a NAATI-accredited professional translator, Japanese to English, with particular expertise in technical translation. Her experience dates to 1977 and her initial career as a technical translator at FACOM (later Fujitsu) Australia. Subsequent work as a systems engineer and analyst and then as founder and managing director of software distributor Decision Japan grew her knowledge of  IT and software localization. She is an expert user of localization and CAT (Computer-Aided Translation) tools, and in particular SDL Trados.