Translating contrasts with English expressions that not their naturally equivalents in Japanese

Question

When translating how does one deal with contrasts best satisfied with English expressions that not the naturally translations from Japanese. In the following example:

現在の株式市場は、日本企業の経営者の正しい戦略や従業員の真摯な勤労に対して*、不当に低い評価しか与えていません。*[したがって、株価は異常に低いと判断しています。]

The current stock market is assigning an unjustifiably low value on the dedication of workers and the (correct) strategies adopted by the management of Japanese companies and therefore we consider stock prices to be anomalously low.

I wanted to structure the sentence with "Given that A, B is..." because it allowed me to connect the full phrases before 「に対して」to the after it. However this is not true equivalent of 「に対して」. Instead I have cheated by putting "correct" in parentheses but I am not sure what best practice would be.

Answer 1

The best practice is to give the listener the best understanding of the concept and not worrying about the actual word for word translations. Understand both languages well enough to know the different nuances in each and when you go to translate, present that thought as if it was your own in the words you would have said it.

I was watching a movie where a guy was shooting at another guy and missed all his shots. He hands the gun to his assistant and says "dame da kono teppou!" and the English translation was "It's useless!" Yes, that was technically correct, "dame" means useless, and used with the motion of handing the gun to his assistant it might have been understood that "it" was referring to the gun, but the way it came across was "it is useless to peruse this man any further." Knowing the character and how a similar character in an American movie would have talked, I would have translated it is "This gun sucks!" I know the Japanese word for "Sucks" was not said, but that was how it should have been translated.