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the method is memorizing kanji. Tha'ts pretty much it. Or at least vocabulary. A lot of the time I dont' even know the kanji to words, but the context combined with my vocabulary usually get the translation done.
Xander said: hey hey, how did you translate it? with a program? with google translator? Or you know Japanese?
I know enough Japanese to figure it out, but I have to look up half the kanji so it takes a little while.
I wish there was a way to convert kanji images to text, but as far as I know there isn't. I just search a kanji dictionary by stroke number to find the ones I don't know.