[userbinator]

I read your comment after the article and didn't believe it. JP>EN is one of the trickiest pairs for MT and there are usually interesting phrases, understandable but distinctive, that would appear even if an actual human did it.

[Pfiffer]

It was originally written in french

[userbinator]

That makes sense, FR>EN is far easier and even Google Translate has been doing a decent job of that for a long time.