What the work looks like

You receive AI-generated artifacts — a Japanese-language business proposal, a bilingual pitch deck, a spreadsheet of localized market data, a set of client-facing keigo email drafts — and you score them against a rubric the project team supplies. Grading is not a thumbs up or down: you flag specific errors (a mistaken honorific register, a mistranslated legal term, a date format that no Japanese reader would use, a slide where the vertical text breaks), explain why each matters, and write structured feedback a model trainer can act on. Volume and artifact type shift between projects; some weeks lean heavily on slide decks, others on long-form documents.

Cultural fluency is treated as a technical skill here, not a soft one. Reviewers are expected to catch things a fluent-but-not-native reader misses: inappropriate levels of politeness for the stated relationship, imagery or color choices that read wrong in a Japanese corporate context, name order and honorific handling, holiday and fiscal-year assumptions, or translationese that is grammatically correct and commercially useless.

What the screen looks for

  • Verifiable professional history — five or more years where Japanese language or cultural expertise was central to the job (translation, localization, Japan-market business, interpreting, academic Japanese studies, bilingual consulting).
  • Working comfort in both directions: you must write clear, structured English feedback about Japanese-language material.
  • Real fluency in Google Slides and PowerPoint, including layout and typography issues specific to Japanese text — this comes up more than candidates expect.
  • Evaluation judgment: whether you can separate a genuine error from a stylistic preference, and whether you can rank severity rather than listing every nit at equal weight.

Logistics

Fully remote and asynchronous, paid hourly against logged review time. Most reviewers work in blocks of a few hours rather than fixed shifts, and availability of 10–20 hours a week is typical for active projects, though this varies by cohort. An advanced degree is a plus, not a gate.