As far as I know, the book has never been translated into Japanese.
Mandarin
数学家就像是法国人:不管你跟他们说什么,他们都会把这翻译成他们自己的语言,并将其变成一些完全不同的东西。
數學家就像是法國人:不管你跟他們説什麼,他們都會把這翻譯成他們自己的語言,並將其變成一些完全不同的東西。
shù xué jiā jiù xiàng shì fǎ guó rén : bù guǎn nǐ gēn tā men shuō shén me , tā men dū huì bǎ zhè fān yì chéng tā men zì jǐ de yǔ yán , bìng jiāng qí biàn chéng yī xiē wán quán bù tóng de dōng xī 。
Mathematicians are like French people: whatever you tell them they translate it into their own language and turn it into something totally different.
Mathematicians have this in common with the French: whatever you're trying to say to them, they take it and translate it in their own way and turn it around into something completely different.