Events
Past Events
May 28 TAC Tokyo seminar – Robert Blasiak and Stuart Ayre
Time: 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
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...
April 23 TAC Tokyo Activity: Toyo Bunko Museum Visit
Time: 5:00 am – 9:00 am
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...
April 23 TAC Tokyo Activity: Toyo Bunko Museum Visit
Time: 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm
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...
TRAC Meet #8: Dictionaries, Grammar and Style Guides (Oh My!)—Writing Better Japanese & TRAC Hanami
Time: All day
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...
TRAC Meet #8: Dictionaries, Grammar and Style Guides (Oh My!)—Writing Better Japanese & TRAC Hanami
Time: All day
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...
March 26 TAC Tokyo seminar – J/E Translation Workshop
Time: 6:00 am – 9:00 am
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...
March 26 TAC Tokyo seminar – J/E Translation Workshop
Time: 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
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...
InterpretJAPAN 2016: Business Interpreting and Legal Interpreting
Time: 6:30 am – 12:30 pm
Location: 清泉女子大学 １号館2階＃122、＃121
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...
InterpretJAPAN 2016: Business Interpreting and Legal Interpreting
Time: 1:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Location: 清泉女子大学 １号館2階＃122、＃121
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...
Weeknight Dinner
Time: 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Location: Lunatique TokioPlage 1-1-4 Tamagawa, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo 150-0043
In February, we’re trying something different by holding TAC’s monthly activity on a weekday evening.
If you find going out in Shibuya among the weekend crowds too much hassle, please try attending this weekday event.
There is no special theme, but we hope to talk frankly and openly about your wishes for JAT and TAC and about translation.
Going forward we are also considering hosting activities...