Past Events

Incorporation: Setting Up a Company in Japan Session OverviewAn outline about the steps required to incorporate in Japan. This presentation will provide some general nuts and bolts about setting up a company and practical business advice. Speaker ProfileA born and bred Canadian, Lisa has been in Japan for more than 25 years, starting as a student at Nichibei Kaiwa Gakuin and Sophia University,...

Books I Translated Session OverviewJATBOOK members will talk about the books they translated. (Speakers might be changed due to their schedules.) The webinar will be in Japanese and will not be recorded. UPDATE 4.20.2022: The panelists are collecting questions in advance via the following survey. Please take a look.Project 2022: JATBOOK事前アンケートSpeaker ProfilesYamamoto Maasa Freelance...

のぞいてみよう！ゲームローカライズ舞台裏 Session...

PROfessional Japanese-English Conferences on Translation (PROJECTs) are JAT’s one-day conferences that cover various aspects of translation and the translation business. We hope you will join us for Global PROJECT 2022: Things I wished I had known starting out. This is an online conference in which JAT members, professionals and students of T&I from around the world are invited to learn...

Let's Talk About JAT Translation Contest Experiences Session OverviewInviting the winners, finalists, participants of the past 18 contests for new and aspiring Japanese/English translators (both Japanese to English and English to Japanese divisions), and anyone interested in participating in future contests, to share knowledge and experiences with each other. The session will be facilitated by...

Translating a Book: More Like a Marathon than a Sprint Session OverviewIn March 2020, I was offered the opportunity to participate in an exciting project. For the first time in my three-decade career as a freelance JP-EN translator, I was asked to translate a full-length nonfiction book as part of a professional team led by a Japanese publisher. In this presentation, I’ll review the entire...

Online Patent Translation Seminar Series (2021-2022)[Seminar #2] Recent Developments in US Patent Practice/Case Law Translators Should Know (tentative title) Location: Zoom onlineQuestion deadline is January 24, 2022 (23:59 JST)Registration deadline is January 27, 2021 (23:59 JST) Registration JAT members: Free Non-members: ¥2,000 Seminar The seminar will run for 90 minutes. The speaker will...

Are you wondering how the year has been for our patent translator colleagues around the globe? Perhaps you have started thinking about where to focus your energies next year. Or you would just like to have a lively discussion with some patent translators? Great! The JATPATENT Steering Committee wishes to invite you to our virtual year-end party to connect and reflect. How did this year turn out...

JATTAC: Online Year-end Networking Party Come and celebrate (or commiserate!) 2021 with fellow linguists at JATTAC year-end networking Bonenkai. This year Tokyo Activities Committee (TAC) are hosting their annual event online, giving more people the chance to take part regardless of location. The event is free for JAT members and ¥500 for non-members, and is a great chance to catch up with old...

The seminar will run for 90 minutes. Three different speakers will give an assorted webinar programs for the first hour and fifteen minutes, followed by a 15-minute question and answer period. *The event will be recorded and uploaded to the JAT site for viewing by members. Max 100 participants JAT members: JPY 500Non-members: JPY 1,000 The deadline for registering for this seminar is 11:59...