Project Sugita Genpaku

Project Sugita Genpaku (プロジェクト杉田玄白) is a project that aims to translate any text without permission[?], if there is no copyright trouble. Commercial use of texts is also allowed.

The name is after Sugita Ganpaku[?], a scholar in Edo era who translated a book about anatomy in the first time in Japan, known as Kaitai-shinsho[?].

Compare:

• Project Gutenberg - a project digitalizing works whose copyright expired.
• Aozora bunko - digitalizing of Japanese copyright-free texts.

External Links

• Official website (http://www.genpaku.org/)