Project Sugita Genpaku
Project Sugita Genpaku (プロジェクト杉田玄白) is a project that aims to translate free content texts into Japanese. Translated texts are distributed under an open source-like licence. The project was founded by Hiro Yamagata in 1999,
The name is after Sugita Genpaku, a famous Japanese scholar in Edo era who translated a Dutch book about anatomy in the first time in Japan, known as Kaitai-shinsho.
Compare:
- Project Gutenberg - a project digitizing works whose copyright expired.
- Aozora bunko - digitizing of Japanese copyright-free texts.