Japanese to English translation (using Roman/Latin characters)

[altonbr]

Although there are many translation tools on the web to translate Japanese characters to English[1], I am wondering if there any tools that can translate the Latin/Roman version of a Japanese word, such as

miki
kohana
jiu jitsu

Into English:

future
little flower
gentle art
and so on...

I know of a website that can translate Japanese words from Roman/Latin variants into their actual characters[2], but it doesn't really help when I don't know what the letter mean!

I appreciate your help!

[1]http://translate.google.com/
[2]http://ajaxime.chasen.org/

[MikeTheC]

The only other places I know of are this one (http://translation.paralink.com) and this one (http://translation2.paralink.com) by Paralink (the first one is pretty neat in that it offers accent-appropriate text-to-speech for any of the languages it translates among) and, of course, the venerable Babelfish (http://babelfish.altavista.com). The Paralink ones will transliterate, but I don't know if they'll do it for anything but Russian/Cyrillic.

Good luck!

[altonbr]

The only other places I know of are this one (http://translation.paralink.com) and this one (http://translation2.paralink.com) by Paralink (the first one is pretty neat in that it offers accent-appropriate text-to-speech for any of the languages it translates among) and, of course, the venerable Babelfish (http://babelfish.altavista.com). The Paralink ones will transliterate, but I don't know if they'll do it for anything but Russian/Cyrillic.

Good luck!

Thanks for all the links!

I can't seem to get Cyrillic/Roman/Latin Japanese to translate into English yet, but I'm getting warmer. Maybe I just need to know the term...

Thanks again!