Minutes of the Face to Face Meeting of the Board
Date & Time: October 18, 2013 (9:30 to 5)
October 19, 2013 (9 to 11:30)
Venue: National Olympic Memorial Youth Center
Room 507, Center Building
3-1 Kamizono-cho, Yoyogi,
Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
Directors attending:
Marian Kinoshita, Megumi Kimoto, Benjamin Tompkins, Karen Sandness and Akiko Endo
Absent: Mike Sekine, Mikako...
Spreading the Translation Word at the ACCJ
JAT members Stuart Ayre, Cathy Eberst, and Helen Iwata presented on Successful Strategies for Working with Translators at the American Chamber of Commerce in Nagoya on Friday, November 8. From a range of prepared topics, the presenters focused on those of most interest to the audience, which comprised both users and providers of translation and...
The presentation material for “Tax Reduction Strategies and Asset Management for Freelancers,” made at the November Tokyo meeting, is now available for download. Click the respective links to download Seigou Masaki's and Fumiko Iguchi's materials.
Here are the results of the votes taken by the JAT board. The results are all password protected. When you are prompted to enter a password, please enter "jatto" without quotation marks to view the vote report.
JAT Board Vote: Appointment of JAT Posts
JAT Board Vote: Using Basecamp
JAT Board Vote: 4th annual translation contest
JAT Board Vote: IC Recorder
JAT Board Vote:...
Material used in Yumiko Fukai’s presentation “Research, Research, Research” made at the October Tokyo meeting is available for download from here.
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Translator Perspectives 2013
This collection of very short essays on translation by professional translators is the second annual anthology from the Japan Association of Translators (JAT). Building on the success of the first edition, of 2012, this edition boasts even more contributions representing the distilled wisdom of translators of all ages, nationalities, fields and levels of...
This presentation will cover the basics of game translation such as; what do you do in game translation? How does the work flow? It appears that only a small number of translators in Kansai are doing game translation so we will begin simply. It will be a peek into someone else’s work, so if you have ever had any curiosity as to how others work please come along.
Speaker: Kenji Shimizu
Kenji...
JATENT Kickoff Meeting
Panel Discussion: Translating Subtitles, Voiceovers and Digital Games – Similar or Different?
(Seminar in Japanese)
As the first in a series of events organized by JATENT, the newly-founded JAT special interest group focusing on entertainment-related translation, we will be holding a panel discussion comparing subtitle translation, voiceover translation and digital game...
Now announcing the 8th e-Juku Session, due to start in early September
Our e-Juku program, launched in 2009, gives participants an opportunity to hone their translation skills under the guidance of seasoned translators. Since spring 2012 an updated format, called the JAT Online Translation Workshop (JOTW), has been adopted for J-to-E sessions to encourage greater peer-to-peer discussion among...
Face-to-Face Meeting of the Board of Directors of the Japan Association of Translators
May 31, 2013, 9:00-11:00AM
Queen Kapiolani Hotel
Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.A.
Directors attending: Helen Iwata (HI), , Charles Aschmann (CA), Megumi Kimoto (MeK), Marian Kinoshita (MaK), Karen Sandness (KS).Yoichiro Tachibana (YT), Fred Uleman (FU)
Auditors Attending: Frank Moorhead (FM), Emily Shibata-Sato...
『JTF日本語標準スタイルガイド（翻訳用）』 is a style guide for translators putting non-literary material into Japanese. Compiled by the JTF Style Guide Committee to help translators make informed decisions and stay consistent,it first appeared on January 30, 2012.
Thinking the information might also be useful for translation clients who do not read Japanese, JAT volunteers (Fred Uleman, Syra Morii and Emily...
IJET24 Report: おかげさまで、I had a brilliant time!
By Lucy Takato
As I find myself back in reality from the sunshine and beaches of Hawai’i, I reflect daily on the truly rewarding experience I had, and just how fitting it was that the overall mantra emerging from the conference was おかげさまで – an idea expounded on by Former Governor Ariyoshi in his fascinating keynote address. Therefore, before I...
Helen Ablonczy & Gavin Fryer
30 May 2013 Pre-IJET24
This Workshop offered an invaluable opportunity for practical instruction in the translation of many common legal provisions by highly experienced legal translation professionals as well as for networking with Workshop instructors and other participants in an exclusive setting before the IJET24 Conference.
Gavin Fryer has been working as...
Hirokazu Suzuki's presentation "Translation and Innovation" and Emily Shibata-Sato's presentation "ISO Standards on Translation and Interpretation" made at the May 2013 Tokyo meeting are available for download from the following link:
Translation and Innovation
ISO Standards on Translation and Interpretation
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Call for Anthology Essays: JAT members only
Last year's anthology of translator perspectives was a great success. Again, thanks to the many people who shared their thoughts. We printed 1,500. We have a mere 50 left.
This year, we are planning an even greater success. We would like a hundred essays. But we are more interested in quality than we are in quantity. Your essay will represent you...
To: All JAT Members
Announcement of Annual General Meeting on June 1, 2013.
I would like to invite you to the Japan Association of Translators Annual General Meeting to be held in Honolulu on June 1, 2013.
Motions proposed and supporting documentation are available for your review at the links below. There are three options for voting:
1. Attend and vote in person
2. Not attend and...
Daniel Dolan’s presentation "Three Rules for Powerful Presentations" made at the April 2013 Tokyo meeting is available for download from the following link:
Three Rules for Powerful Presentations
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Please be advised that all of the JAT sites will be taken offline for software updates for about an hour at around lunchtime on Saturday, April 13 (PDT). For those of you in Japan, this will be sometime around 3:00 AM on Sunday morning.
These updates will affect the following sites:
jat.org/ijet/
jat.org/project/
jat.org
Please contact the webmaster if you have any concerns about this...
The 2013 JAT election is over and the Election Committee is delighted to announce the results.
Congratulations to the successful candidates and commiserations to those who were not successful this time. Many thanks to all members who voted.
Winning candidates
Directors (2-year terms)
Yoichiro Tachibana
Mike Sekine
Mikako Miyahara
Ben Tompkins
Akiko Endo
Ballots received:...
Akira Takahashi’s presentation "The I-T of IT Translation & the Ins and Outs of Style Guides" made at the March 2013 Tokyo meeting is available for download from the following link:
The I-T of IT Translation & the Ins and Outs of Style Guides
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