Past Events

Illustrating and Translating Words This JAT session will feature two presentations about the English translation of the 1910 travelogue Ein Spaziergang in Japan (A Walk in Japan). This travelogue conjures up the sights, sounds, and smells of yesteryear Japan. When its aspiring German author, Bernhard Kellermann, arrived in Meiji-era Japan, he drank deeply of a country in transition, wandering...

Illustrating and Translating Words This JAT session will feature two presentations about the English translation of the 1910 travelogue Ein Spaziergang in Japan (A Walk in Japan). This travelogue conjures up the sights, sounds, and smells of yesteryear Japan. When its aspiring German author, Bernhard Kellermann, arrived in Meiji-era Japan, he drank deeply of a country in transition, wandering...

Enjoy the Beauties of Toyo Bunko Library Come and join us as we visit Toyo Bunko (Oriental Library), which has been described as one of the most beautiful modern libraries in the world. Located in Tokyo’s Bunkyo-ku, the facility is a specialist library and research center for Asian studies, focusing on the history and culture of the whole region. It was founded more than 90 years ago with the...

Enjoy the Beauties of Toyo Bunko Library Come and join us as we visit Toyo Bunko (Oriental Library), which has been described as one of the most beautiful modern libraries in the world. Located in Tokyo’s Bunkyo-ku, the facility is a specialist library and research center for Asian studies, focusing on the history and culture of the whole region. It was founded more than 90 years ago with the...

For this session, we proudly welcome back Akira Takahashi for his second trip to Sendai since his presentation at our Sendai IJET-25 Pre-event in February of 2014. And after the session will be our first TRAC hanami! Come fraternize with local translators below the cherry blossoms in what is forecasted to be peak season in Sendai. Session: As translators, our translations need a concrete...

For this session, we proudly welcome back Akira Takahashi for his second trip to Sendai since his presentation at our Sendai IJET-25 Pre-event in February of 2014. And after the session will be our first TRAC hanami! Come fraternize with local translators below the cherry blossoms in what is forecasted to be peak season in Sendai. Session: As translators, our translations need a concrete...

Workshop We had planned to carry out a seminar on cybersecurity this month, but we have had to postpone that session and will now hold a workshop on translation from Japanese into English. It will be a forum for discussing special expressions, technical terms, and difficult words or phrases. If you have examples to discuss, please bring them to the workshop, or you can send them to us at...

Workshop We had planned to carry out a seminar on cybersecurity this month, but we have had to postpone that session and will now hold a workshop on translation from Japanese into English. It will be a forum for discussing special expressions, technical terms, and difficult words or phrases. If you have examples to discuss, please bring them to the workshop, or you can send them to us at...

JATINT, JAT’s Interpreters Group, is proud to present InterpretJAPAN 2016 Organizer: JAT Interpreting Committee, Japan Association of Translators (http://jat.org) Theme: Business Interpreting and Legal Interpreting Venue: Rooms 122 and 121, 2nd Floor, Building 1, Seisen University Admission Fee: JAT Members 3,000 yen, Non-JAT Members 5,000 yen, Students 2,000 yen, Get Together 2,500...

JATINT, JAT’s Interpreters Group, is proud to present InterpretJAPAN 2016 Organizer: JAT Interpreting Committee, Japan Association of Translators (http://jat.org) Theme: Business Interpreting and Legal Interpreting Venue: Rooms 122 and 121, 2nd Floor, Building 1, Seisen University Admission Fee: JAT Members 3,000 yen, Non-JAT Members 5,000 yen, Students 2,000 yen, Get Together 2,500...