blackaeronaut Wrote:*Ponders* Maybe I should do an original version and an All-English version...Meh. As long as you're careful to give either translations or context clues, using bits and pieces of Japanese should be fine. Ideally there should be a pattern to when the characters lines are translated or not--so you can use it as a shorthand. Remember, your readers use the words to create images of scenes--the Japanese bits can help with that.
If nothing else, use footnotes--awkward, yes, but if you really can't make anything else work...