News & Announcements

Nov 26, 2024

Translator Perspectives 2024 Now Available

JAT is pleased to announce this year's anthology of insightful essays, Translator Perspectives 2024, is available on the website.

Translators and interpreters working between Japanese and English face myriad problems on a daily basis. Some of them have routine solutions. Many do not. While the internet is a treasure trove of information resources, we still have to understand how to find and use those resources to best effect. Some of this is skills. Some is mindset. The essays in this year's anthology can help with both, for they describe how other translators and interpreters discover the answers they need—and the issues that still need working on. We hope you will read it and find it beneficial. And we hope you will be in next year's.

Link: https://jat.org/about/publication/translator-perspectives-2024

JAT Anthology Committee

Nov 19, 2024

21st Contest ID Numbers Issued

Oct 1, 2024

Twenty-first Annual JAT Contest for New and Aspiring Japanese<>English Translators (Oct. 1-31) Source Text and Guidelines

This contest is open to anyone with less than three years’ experience as a professional translator including students.

Sep 1, 2024

Twenty-first Annual JAT Contest for New and Aspiring Japanese<>English Translators　

JAT is pleased to announce its twenty-first annual Japanese <> English translation contest for new and aspiring translators.

Jul 4, 2024

Notice regarding JAT organizational changes

Jun 5, 2024

Statement on the Public and Private Sector Initiative to Use AI for High-Volume Translation and Export of Manga

[Press Release]
JAT wishes to express its strong reservations regarding the initiative to use AI for high-volume translation and export of manga. AI is unfit to translate high-context, story-centric writing such as novels, scripts, games, and manga.

Press Release

Jun 3, 2024