Seeking to encourage talented people to enter the translation field, JAT is pleased to announce its 23rd annual Japanese <> English translation contest for new and aspiring translators. The actual passage to be translated is a real-life text—the sort of thing a working commercial translator might well be called upon to do.
Open to: Anyone with less than three years’ experience as a...
Fellow JAT Members,
Here is the information for the general meeting we announced last week: the date and time, the Zoom ID, and the voting materials.
Please read the details thoroughly. Thank you for your cooperation.
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日時 / Date and Time:
2026年6月28日(日) 21:00～22:00 (日本時間) / Sunday, June 28, 2026, 21:00-22:00 JST
開催場所 / Location: Zoom
Zoom link:
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The JAT Elections Committee can now report this year’s election results.
We are happy to announce that Tomoko Aikawa, Norikazu Wada, and Hideaki Maruoka have been elected as director with 88 votes, 89 votes, and 83 votes, respectively (in order of registration).
We will inform you of the appointed auditor on the OGM.
We would like to thank the candidates and all those who took part in the...
Dear JAT Members,
The 2026 JAT Election Committee would like to announce this year’s candidates for the Director position. Since we did not receive an application for an auditor, the Board will look for someone to appoint.
List of Candidates (in order of registration)
(Candidate details appear at the end of this announcement.)
・ 相川 知子 / Tomoko Aikawa (director)
・ 和田 憲和 / Norikazu Wada...
Fellow JAT members,
JAT’s 2026 Election has begun, and we encourage you to take part by running for a position on the board to help make JAT an even better organization.
To review how many positions are open, who is up for re-election, etc., please take a look at the initial announcement ( https://jat.org/news/2026_jat_election ). In a nutshell, we can elect up to 9 directors and 1 auditor in...
Note: The Spring 2026 eJuku session has been postponed to Autumn 2026
We are pleased to announce that the Spring 2026 JAT eJuku session will be held as indicated below. For general information on eJuku, please visit the webpage What is e-Juku?
Spring 2026 J>E eJuku session
- Language direction: Japanese to English
- Format: online forum discussion and series of weekly videoconferences
-...
Dear JAT members,
Why not share your experiences, challenges, and opinions on translation and interpreting? For those of us who use two or more languages meticulously on a daily basis and are steadily navigating the turbulent society of 2025-2026, the general election results, which suggest the continuation of the Takaichi administration's expansionary fiscal policy, leave us hoping for a...
Fellow JAT members,
Greetings from the JAT Election Committee! The 2026 JAT election is drawing near.
Announcements concerning the election (including this message) are delivered from a send-only e-mail address, which does not accept incoming email. Please direct any queries to [email protected].
To make it easier than ever to run for office, only one endorsement is required. Furthermore,...
Dear Members,
Thank you for your continued support and commitment to our organization.
We are writing to inform you of a recent update to our policy
regarding member participation fees for online seminars. Following a
review by the Board of Directors, the previous policy of providing all
online seminars free of charge to members will be discontinued,
effective this fiscal year.
The New...
アノニマス (著), 中澤甘菜 (翻訳)
サウザンブックス社
https://amzn.asia/d/016dLcDP
1976年から読みつづけられてきた『A Day at a Time Gamblers Anonymous: Gamblers Anonymous』―ギャンブル依存症の回復に欠かせない書籍が50年の時を超えて日本語に。 アノアニマス（匿名）のギャンブル依存症患者たちが綴る日々の反省と祈りを通して、一年を通して希望、支え、そして導きを与えてくれる1冊。
Ruth McCreery
The Sasu-Kyū source text poses several challenges, including explaining sa-shi-su-se-so
succinctly while retaining its connection to Sasu-Kyū and communicating the author’s perspective on discussing emotionally fraught gender and other biases.
E39
E39 was mainly accurate and produced effective English. The translation began strongly with a title that does not include the 揶揄 jape...
Henry Smith (continued from Part 2)
Ken Nemoto, Finalist E12
I think Ken came closest to reflecting the author’s thinking in many places, which indicates he has strong skills for source text analysis. He also demonstrated an ability to look at the text from the reader's perspective. However, he lost a few points on my marking scheme due to terminology choices. In places, I felt the expression...
Henry Smith
General Comments
The phrase さす九 has ignited a huge debate in Kyushu, but may just accompany occasional eyerolls in the big cities on Honshu. Non-fiction writer Kaori Kawai captures the debate wonderfully well in our source text. In places, her text makes this contest seem like an exercise in literary translation. We have a Japanese parable crafted to focus a Japanese audience on...
Jim Davis
General Comments
The title of any document prepares the reader for the content that will appear in the body of the document and gives the reader some inkling of the message that lies therein. The title of this article reads, 「さす九」揶揄は反差別か地域差別か. We know immediately that the phrase さす九 and the attitudes that lie behind this phrase will be central to this article. We also gain, from the...
FinalistsE12 Ken NemotoE18 John BurnE37 Ethan Sky Cubo
Runner-upE29 Chiyo BrownWinnerE39 Chloe Kalani* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Finalists
E12 Ken Nemoto
Sasu-kyu: Does the backhand compliment reflect anti-discrimination or regional discrimination?
Kaori Kawai, non-fiction writer
I hear that the phrase sa-shi-su-se-so (a set of five successive sounds from the Japanese alphabet...
Registration for IJET-34 is now open! We warmly invite you to join us for what promises to be another excellent conference in the beautiful city of Melbourne. Come one come all, bring your drinking boots and a brolly (just in case) and wrap ya laughin' gear around a Four'N Twenty or two!
This year's theme " Communication, Connection, Creativity: 人にしかできないこと " promises a rich array of informative...
The winners of the Twenty-second Annual JAT Contest for New and Aspiring Japanese<>English Translators have been selected as follows:
Japanese to English Contest
Winner E39 Chloe Kalani (Toyama)Runner-up E29 Chiyo Brown (NSW, Australia)
FinalistsE12 Ken Nemoto (Tokyo)E18 John Burn (Tyne and Wear, UK)E37 Ethan Sky Cubos (Davao City, Philippines)
English to Japanese ContestWinner J53...