This Sunday (April 19), an interview with JAT President Marian Kinoshita will be be broadcast on the radio station InterFM.
In the interview, Marian talks with DJ Guy Perryman about JAT and its history, IJET-26 in York, this year's PROJECT Kyoto, TAC, SIGs and the translation/interpreting profession in general.
The three-hour show starts, entitled London Hit Radio, starts at 3:00 p.m. and the...
The 2015 JAT election is over and the final results have been verified. Congratulations to the winners and thank you to all candidates and members who voted.
Winning candidates
Auditor (2-year term):
Nora Heath
Directors (2-year terms):
Ben Tompkins
Akiko Endo
Phil Robertson
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Detailed results
Ballots received: 152 (all valid)
Votes for auditor: 149
Votes required for...
Fond of worms? Like to think of yourself as an early bird? Then make sure you get yourself over to the IJET-26 website and register by 31st March to take advantage of the best rates!
See you in York!
(JAT members can view photos from IJET-25 in members section.)
Dear JAT members,
The 2015 JAT Board Election has officially started. This year we have three people running for director to fill six openings and one person running for auditor to fill one opening. Even though it may seem a formality, please take the time to vote for those who will help run JAT for the next two years.
Please use the following link to cast your vote.
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Author: Nanami Shiono (edited by Ronald Dore)
Translator: Ian MacDonald
Shinchosha Publishing Co., Ltd., May 2014
The Greeks surpassed them in learning, the Celts in bravery, the Germans in strength, the Etruscans in technology, and the Carthaginians in commerce… But it was the Romans who built the greatest empire the world has ever seen. Already a bestseller in China, Korea and Japan,...
Author: Hideyuki Kikuchi
Translator: Ian MacDonald
Thames River Press, September 2013 (ISBN: 978-0-8572-8127-2)
From Japan’s “master of horror,” these historical tales of the supernatural depict the pathos of lower-class samurai (whose lives echo the despair felt by the contemporary Japanese “salaryman”) at a time when swordsmanship was less relevant than practical skills like accountancy....
Author: Katsuhiko Takahashi
Translator: Ian MacDonald
Thames River Press, September 2013 (ISBN: 978-0-8572-8129-6)
Uncover murder and intrigue in the art world in this Edogawa Rampo Prize-winning novel, which explores the real-life mystery behind Sharaku, one of Japan’s most iconic artists. The author, an art historian-turned-writer, weaves serious scholarly research into an ingenious...
Author: Aiko Kitahara
Translator: Ian MacDonald
January 2008, Dalkey Archive Press (ISBN: 978-1-5647-8489-6)
This Naoki Prize-winning work is a personal yet precise account of the lives of working women in the latter half of the Edo period, when the warrior caste was finding itself pushed out of the top echelons of society by the rising merchant class, and famines repeatedly swept the...
Author: Kido Okamoto
Translator: Ian MacDonald
January 2007, University of Hawaii Press (ISBN: 978-0-8248-3100-4)
Written in the 1910s and 20s, Hanshichi torimonocho is a beloved work of popular literature. Told through the eyes of a street-smart detective (loosely modeled on Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes), the work inaugurated Japan’s historical detective genre and spawned stage, radio,...
Everyone,
I am pleased to inform you that the eJuku team has received many
more applications than expected for the Spring 2015 J>E eJuku session.
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 2015 J>E eJuku session Checker & Coordinator
Fellow JAT members,
When the clock strikes midnight tonight in Japan (00:00:01 JST on February 26) we begin accepting candidacy registrations at < https://jat.wufoo.com/forms/jat-2015-board-candidacy/ >.
The candidacy declaration/registration period ends at 22:00:00 JST, March 11, and the campaigning period starts at 00:00:01 JST, March 13. However, since the Election Committee needs...
Fellow JAT members,
The 2015 JAT election is drawing near.
Please direct any queries to <[email protected]>.
1. Election Committee
The Election Committee has three members, as mandated by the JAT
Bylaws. This year, the committee comprises Andrew Welford (Chair),
Mayu Kawaguchi, and Ben Davis.
2. Number of positions to be filled
The JAT Board currently has a total of 10 officers...
By Takamori Kentetsu, translated by Juliet Carpenter, published by Ichimannendo Publishing, 2011
Even a good person will be born in the Pure Land; how much more so an evil person! Concerning good and evil alike I know nothing at all.
-Shinran
Can you believe these are the words of the great Buddhist master?
Tannisho (Lamenting the Deviations) clarifies the heart of Pure Land Buddhism and...
By Ota Hisashi, translated by Juliet Carpenter, published by Ichimannendo Publishing, 2011/2012
For the First Time – Buddha’s Life Story is Illustrated into Manga
What is happiness?
What’s the point of living the way I do, day in and day out?
Two thousand six hundred years ago, in his youth Buddha (Sakyamuni) had the same nagging questions that we do today.
He never avoided them or gave up...
Information, Corporate Governance, and Institutional Diversity: Competitiveness in Japan, the USA, and the Transitional Economies
By Masahiko Aoki, Translated by Stacey Jehlik
This book uses differences in firm and market regulation and organization to explain differences in national economic performance. These differences affect the way in which firms process information, which is crucial to...