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Policy
Brazil court orders Indigenous-language interpreters at polls for runoff
The 5th Federal Court in Pará, on a Federal Prosecution Service action, gave the Union 24 hours to fund transport, interpreters, cultural facilitators and mother-tongue signage for Indigenous voters nationwide, with a R$1m daily fine.
Tech
Japan's Finance Ministry proposes AI-translated, cross-publisher manga platform
Translation capacity becomes state export infrastructure. Tokyo would back AI multilingual translation across publishers, with revenue shared by usage, aiming at budgets from FY2027, and plans to approach Shueisha and Kodansha.