diff --git a/lib/to-csv.js b/lib/to-csv.js
index c6c84c6..da393c2 100644
--- a/lib/to-csv.js
+++ b/lib/to-csv.js
@@ -4,10 +4,7 @@ import csvStringify from 'csv-stringify';
 import eol from 'eol';
 import denodeify from 'denodeify';
 import map from 'lodash/map';
-
-// this is needed to `require` the js locale files
-// instead of using fs.read
-import 'babel-register';
+import parseJsonFromJsFile from './utils/parse-json-from-js-file';
 
 const readdir = denodeify(fs.readdir);
 const stat = denodeify(fs.stat);
@@ -73,8 +70,7 @@ export default function(localesPath, csvPath, { onlyMissing } = {}) {
     for (let columnIndex in filePaths) {
       let filePath = filePaths[columnIndex];
 
-      // this is why we need `babel-register` above
-      let json = require(filePath).default;
+      let json = parseJsonFromJsFile(filePath);
 
       recurse(json, columnIndex, 0, '');
     }
diff --git a/lib/to-js.js b/lib/to-js.js
index 75f4df0..b967e86 100644
--- a/lib/to-js.js
+++ b/lib/to-js.js
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import csvParse from 'csv-parse';
 import eol from 'eol';
 import denodeify from 'denodeify';
 import Promise from 'promise';
+import parseJsonFromJsFile from './utils/parse-json-from-js-file';
 
 const readFile = denodeify(fs.readFile);
 const writeFile = denodeify(fs.writeFile);
@@ -22,7 +23,7 @@ export default function(csvPath, localesPath, { ignoreJshint, merge } = {}) {
       if (merge) {
         let filePath = path.resolve(localesPath, locales[i], 'translations.js');
         if (fs.existsSync(filePath)) {
-          obj = require(filePath).default;
+          obj = parseJsonFromJsFile(filePath);
         }
       }
       objs.push(obj);
diff --git a/lib/utils/parse-json-from-js-file.js b/lib/utils/parse-json-from-js-file.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6228627
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/utils/parse-json-from-js-file.js
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+import fs from 'fs';
+
+export default filePath => {
+  let js = fs.readFileSync(filePath, 'utf8');
+  let jsonString = js.substring(js.indexOf('{'), js.lastIndexOf('}') + 1);
+  let json = JSON.parse(jsonString);
+  return json;
+};
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index af8b43a..86d640a 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -28,7 +28,6 @@
   },
   "homepage": "https://github.com/kellyselden/ember-i18n-csv#readme",
   "dependencies": {
-    "babel-register": "^6.0.0",
     "csv-parse": "^1.0.0",
     "csv-stringify": "^1.0.0",
     "denodeify": "^1.0.0",
@@ -41,6 +40,7 @@
     "babel-cli": "^6.0.0",
     "babel-preset-es2015": "^6.0.0",
     "babel-preset-stage-2": "^6.0.0",
+    "babel-register": "^6.0.0",
     "chai": "^3.0.0",
     "coveralls": "^2.0.0",
     "eslint": "^2.0.0",
diff --git a/test/fixtures/locales-only-missing/nl-nl/translations.js b/test/fixtures/locales-only-missing/nl-nl/translations.js
index df90a78..207b3be 100644
--- a/test/fixtures/locales-only-missing/nl-nl/translations.js
+++ b/test/fixtures/locales-only-missing/nl-nl/translations.js
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ export default {
       "node2-2-1": "test",
       "node2-2-2": "test"
     }
-  },
+  }
 };
 
 /* jshint ignore:end */
diff --git a/test/fixtures/locales-only-missing/pt-br/translations.js b/test/fixtures/locales-only-missing/pt-br/translations.js
index 3fa5a85..a5ca348 100644
--- a/test/fixtures/locales-only-missing/pt-br/translations.js
+++ b/test/fixtures/locales-only-missing/pt-br/translations.js
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ export default {
   },
   "node2": {
     "node2-2": {
-      "node2-2-1": "test",
+      "node2-2-1": "test"
     }
   },
   "weekday": {