Past Events

Come one, come all to TAC’s Summer Party! We have booked the whole first floor of the restaurant to allow us plenty of room to join the cocktail party vibe. We hope you will join us for this opportunity to network with new colleagues and to catch up with old friends. There will also be a special present for the deserving! Register early, as space is limited! Registration is available through...

Title: 3 Ways Translators, Checkers, and Writers can Customize Word Speaker: Junya Nitta Abstract: “This is what I wanted to know!”, “I want to go home and change Word’s settings right now!”, “I now know how to make small adjustments to make Word more efficient!”. These are some of the comments received after Junya spoke at TAC in 2013. So what did you actually do after that seminar? Did you...

Title: 3 Ways Translators, Checkers, and Writers can Customize Word Speaker: Junya Nitta Abstract: “This is what I wanted to know!”, “I want to go home and change Word’s settings right now!”, “I now know how to make small adjustments to make Word more efficient!”. These are some of the comments received after Junya spoke at TAC in 2013. So what did you actually do after that seminar? Did you...

NEW: eProgram now available for download. JAT will hold its 2017 Un-Ordinary General Meeting (OGM) on Saturday, June 24, 2017 in Tokyo. Typically, our OGM is a 45-minute session at IJET, but this year’s OGM will be different. It will be an all-day event featuring a keynote presentation on quality control by Terry Saito, a networking session, and a keynote panel discussion on machine...

NEW: eProgram now available for download. JAT will hold its 2017 Un-Ordinary General Meeting (OGM) on Saturday, June 24, 2017 in Tokyo. Typically, our OGM is a 45-minute session at IJET, but this year’s OGM will be different. It will be an all-day event featuring a keynote presentation on quality control by Terry Saito, a networking session, and a keynote panel discussion on machine...

Have you ever wondered if it’s worth it to diversify your client base to include foreign clients? Not quite sure how to go about finding foreign clients or promoting your services outside Japan? Worried about foreign payment practices, etc.? We at TRAC have the solution: ask Akiko! For TRAC’s summer session, this time we’ll have Akiko Endo, linguistic freelancer extraordinaire, up to Sendai to...

Have you ever wondered if it’s worth it to diversify your client base to include foreign clients? Not quite sure how to go about finding foreign clients or promoting your services outside Japan? Worried about foreign payment practices, etc.? We at TRAC have the solution: ask Akiko! For TRAC’s summer session, this time we’ll have Akiko Endo, linguistic freelancer extraordinaire, up to Sendai to...

Photos Abstract : This seminar will focus only on some practical trainings for simultaneous interpreting based on the lectures provided by the lecturer in the past seminars. This workshop includes the way how to handle paper preparation for simultaneous interpreting. It also tries to give the participants some clues to successful simultaneous interpreting without paper as well....

Photos Abstract : This seminar will focus only on some practical trainings for simultaneous interpreting based on the lectures provided by the lecturer in the past seminars. This workshop includes the way how to handle paper preparation for simultaneous interpreting. It also tries to give the participants some clues to successful simultaneous interpreting without paper as well....

Title: How to Use Japanese Punctuation Marks: Understanding the "Totens of Thoughts" from Honda Dokuhon Speaker: Ryo Morisawa Abstract: I’m going to ask you to work on some problems right away. If you were going to place totens in the following sentences, where would you put them? 1)句読点の打ち方をとくに意識したことはいままでなかった。しかし先週の土曜日私は句読点の打ち方についての話を聞いた。 2)実は私は文法はあまり好きではない。 In Japanese, there are no clear...