To: All JAT Members

Announcement of Annual General Meeting to be held June 3, 2012

I have the honor to invite you to the Japan Association of Translators Annual General Meeting to be held in Hiroshima on June 3, 2012.

Last year, we held the Eighth Annual Contest for New and Aspiring Translators. Every year, a group of screeners and judges help to narrow the entries and decide the winners.  We would like to establish a committee similar to those we have for other JAT activities.

Well known in manufacturing, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is looking to draw up standards for translation and the translation industry. Because these may well directly affect JAT members, we think JAT should be part of the effort.

To celebrate International Translation Day on September 30, we are considering publishing an anthology on translation.

The handout from Yuji Yamamoto's presentation on “Turbo-boosting your translation productivity today!" made at the April 2012 Tokyo meeting is available for download from the following link: 2012JATTokyo_Yuji Yamamoto_Handout.pdf

The video of this seminar can be viewed here: http://jat.org/videos/show/turbo_boosting_your_translation_productivity_today_breakthrough_in_quality/

By Wendy McBride, Inhouse Translator

JAT’s Tokyo Activities Committee’s April seminar was presented by Yuji Yamamoto, a leading light in Japanese translation circles, to around 50 E-J and J-E translators, about half of whom were non-JAT members... (Read more)

There is also a report by Akiko Chiba on this seminar in Japanese.

Report in Japanese by Hideaki Maruoka on using Ustream for the first time at the TAC meeting in April 2012.

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By: 白石里香

去る3月17日、渋谷フォーラム８で開催された「映像翻訳：映画、テレビとその後」と題されたJATミーティングに参加しました。パネリストは、経験豊富な日英映像翻訳者であるイアン・マクドゥーガルさんとデビッド・ニストさん。
有意義なお話の数々を伺うことができました。

By: Kavita Peterson

Approximately 55 people came to Shibuya, Tokyo on Saturday, March 17 to attend a seminar on audio-visual translation presented by two translators experienced in the field, Ian MacDougall and David Nist, and moderated by Julianne Long. The speakers introduced us to the world of audio-visual translation, especially concerning the translation of subtitles.

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Commentaries from the judges are here.