Richard Medhurst

Professional Information

Specialties

News and culture articles, investor relations, literature

Background

Translator, editor, and writer at Nippon.com since 2014.

Profile page: https://www.nippon.com/en/authordata/richard-medhurst/

Has had translations of short stories published in Kyoto Journal and the samurai anthology Strokes of Brush and Blade.

Author of a series of Word Wise columns on translating tricky terms at the website of the Society of Writers, Editors, and Translators (SWET).

https://swet.jp/columns/C40

In-house IR translator at Edge International in Tokyo from April 2013 to January 2014

CIR at Imizu City Hall, Toyama Prefecture from 2008 to 2013.

Winner of the 8th Annual JAT Contest for New and Aspiring Translators (2012).

Passed JLPT Level 1 in 2003.

Passed Kanji Kentei Level 2 in 2011.