Thirteenth Annual JAT Contest for New and Aspiring Japanese/English Translators
JAT is pleased to announce its Thirteenth annual Japanese/English translation contest for new and aspiring translators.
News & Announcements
News & Announcements
Board Election: Announcement of Candidates
Dear JAT members,
The 2016 JAT Election Committee is pleased to announce candidates.
For details, please click [Read more...] below.
2015 JAT Election Committee
Yoko Kawabe (Chair)
Chris Blakeslee
Yumeko Futaki
2016 JAT Anthology
We are trying something new this year, and we hope you will be part of it.
This year’s essays will be run as they are received—untouched by editorial hands. In the past, we have suggested cosmetic touch-ups and the like. But people have complained that the published essay is not fully representative of the author’s work. So we will get out of the way this year. This year’s six-step process is: (1) you write your essay and send it to [email protected], (2) we send it to the printer, (3) the printer typesets and lay-outs it, (4) we send you a proof and ask you to make sure the printer did not change it, (5) you tell us what, if anything, needs to be corrected (or tell us it is okay as is), and (6) that is what gets published
Twelfth Annual JAT Contest for New and Aspiring Translators: Commentaries from the Judges
Judges Commentaries (Japanese-to-English Division, 英日部門はこちら)
James Davis
Ruth McCreery
Ken Wagner
Twelfth Annual JAT Contest: Translation of Award Winners and Finalists
Translation of award-winners and finalists (Japanese-to-English Contest)
Japanese to English Contest
1st place: Kei Simmel (E30)
2nd place:Raymond Claghorn (E6)
Finalists: Benjamin Wilson(E9), Kristin Armstrong (E10) and Brandi Jones (E12)
The source text is here
Twelfth Annual JAT Contest Winners
The winners of the Twelfth Annual JAT Contest for New and Aspiring Japanese<>English Translators have been selected as follows:
Call for Spring 2016 J>E eJuku participants now closed
Everyone,
I am pleased to inform you that the eJuku team has received many excellent
applications for the Spring 2016 J>E eJuku session in the first five days of
its application period. I wish to inform everyone that the Call is now closed.
All the applicants will be notified of their screening results individually by
private email in due course.
Shuichi Yamakawa
Spring 2016 J>E eJuku Coordinator
Twelfth Annual JAT Contest Finalists
The winners will soon be announced!
There were 98 entrants in the English-to-Japanese Division and 33 in the Japanese-to-English Division of the Twelfth Annual JAT Contest for New and Aspiring Japanese/English Translators. The finalists have been decided as follows.
JAT Hike and Picnic in Kamakura (October 2015)
On October 24, 2015, JAT members got together for a TAC event with a difference: a healthy walk in the hills of Kamakura. It was the chance to get away from the computer screen and get to know each other better while enjoying a little exercise in some exceptionally fine autumn weather. As feedback was positive, TAC plans to arrange another walking event in 2016.
JATENT Survey for AV/entertainment translators
The Japan Association of Translators (JAT) has a special interest group (SIG) for entertainment and audiovisual translators called “JATENT”.
JATENT has not been so active in recent times, but we would like to revive it, and are looking for input on what kind of group people in the field would benefit from, and want to be involved in.
Please spare us a few minutes of your valuable time to respond to this survey and help us create a useful group for entertainment and audiovisual translators!
LINK TO SURVEY: http://goo.gl/forms/kmWV7CGDt8
PLEASE RESPOND BY 11.59 P.M., DECEMBER 7, 2015 (JST).
Inquiries: [email protected]
Terry Gallagher Awarded Japan-United States Friendship Commission Prize
JAT member Terry Gallagher has recently been awarded the Japan-United States Friendship Commission Prize (also known as the Donald Keene Prize) for his translation of Toh Enjoe's SELF-REFERENCE ENGINE (VIZ Media, 2013).
The awards ceremony and reception will be held at Columbia University in New York City on Friday December 11th, 2015, and is open to the public. Any JAT members in New York City in early December? Go show your support as Terry receives this wonderful award!
RSVP by Dec. 1 to reserve your spot!
To attend the translation prize awards ceremony, email your full name by December 1st.
25th JTF Translation Festival Tokyo 2015
四半世紀の時を超えて、そして次なる未来へ ～ 終わりなき革新で、拡大するマーケットに挑む翻訳産業～
Who: for translators, translation companies, and translation clients
What: JTF Translation Festival (full-day of sessions and networking)
Where: Arcadia Ichigaya (Tokyo) (JR Ichigaya or Tokyo Metro Yurakucho line)
When: November 26, 2015 (Thursday)
9:30 to 21:00
Why: To unlock new translation markets with innovative keys...
Contest Winner's Essay
Essay titled 内容と論点を理解してから翻訳する by Yuki Hashiudo, first-place winner in the English to Japanese Division, contributed to Translator Perspective 2015. (in Japanese)
Twelfth Annual JAT Contest: Source Texts and Guidelines (OCT. 1-31, 2015)
Twelfth Annual JAT Contest (Oct.1-31, 2015): Source Texts and Guidelines
Contest entries are now closed.
Interview with Jun Yamada, Vice-President, Aizu Electric Power Company (PROJECT Kyoto Sponsor)
As you look at the list of sponsors of PROJECT Kyoto 2015, you may be wondering: how did a power company in Tohoku come to sponsor a translation and interpretation event? We spoke to Jun Yamada, vice-president of Aizu Electric Power Company, to ask him that question. Mr. Yamada also talked about Aizu Electric’s quest for local, sustainable power in the Tohoku region and touched on his former position as president of Qualcomm Japan.
Report on the JAT translation workshop and meeting in Brisbane, September 4, 2015
On a warm sunny Friday in Brisbane, the events started with attendance by four JAT members and friends at an interpreting forum held in the University of Queensland’s state of the art interpreter-training facility. Dr Libby Flynn gave a presentation on music therapy for counselling bereaved parents, with simultaneous and consecutive interpreting provided by students from the Masters Course in Japanese Interpreting and Translation.
IJET-27 in Sendai, June 18-19, 2016
IJET-27 will be held in Sendai on June 18-19, 2016, at the Sendai International Center. The IJET-27 website will be ready with all the details sometime soon.