Sapporo company develops software for multilingual menus

Sapporo company develops software for multilingual menus

SAPPORO, Japan - Nobuyasu Fukunishi, president of a computer software company in Sapporo, Hokkaido Prefecture, explains about the "Sekai Menu" system, which enables restaurants to provide foreign customers with menus in various languages via a smartphone application through the scanning of QR codes, in the northern Japanese city on Dec. 8, 2014.

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