How are Japanese company division, section or department names translated?


How are Japanese company division, section or department names usually
translated to English e.g. 「システム開発1部ソリューション１課」? Does it translate it to System
Development Department 1 Solution Section 1?




Division, Department and Section are usually translated as 事業本部 / 事業部、部 and 課
respectively. But the names of organizational units differ from company to
company. For example, in mass-media (TV and press) and advertising agencies
where I had worked, Division, Department and Section were respectly called
局、部、課. Goverment organizations also use 局、部、課.

金融部 will be Finance Department, but I don't think the use of the word, 'team'
as a nomencrature of the organizational unit is so popular. You have a
taskforce team, or new business / product / design development team as a sub-
unit in a department or section, but we don't see the title of the manager /
chief of XX Team of its own instead of 部 and 課 so often.

