Resources for Japanese-to-English Translators

Translation Notes | Presentations

For starters, I have uploaded legacy presentations, mostly made at IJET Conferences in various places. The one with most relevance these days is probably the one I gave in 2019 in Cairns, since it deals with the hurdles face by freelancers in breaking away from the agency-work business model and taking a place on tier one of the translation business, from which translation consumers are served.

There will also be installments to the nascent section of translation notes, which will see some content resurrected from other times and some new content made relevant by the drastic changes in the translation world.

Translation Notes

This will appear as a series of bits and pieces of information collected over the years. It might or might not make its way into the form of a larger, more-organized work, but the author hopes that even piecemeal publishing might be of some use to some translators.

Note N001:: Confusion of the Whole with its Parts in Japanese (June 28, 2025)

Presentations

IJET Conference Presentations

These are presentations Lise has made at IJET (International Japanese/English Translation) Conferences held by Japan Association of Translators, which have alternated between Japan and overseas venues.

Because they cannot be found on the JAT website, having been lost or deleted, I have preserved these presentations on this website. Along with a now deleted or long-lost scanned copy of the Proceedings from the first IJET Conference, held in Hakone in 1990, also not available on the JAT website, is also linked to below.

IJET-30 (Cairns, AU June 29-30, 2019, organized by Japan Association of Translators): Lise, Getting from Tier Two to Tier One in Japanese-to-English Translation
IJET-19 (Okinawa, Japan April 12-13, 2008, organized by Japan Association of Translators): Lise, Japanese Patent Translation
IJET-16 (Chicago, US June 4-5, 1997, organized by Japan Association of Translators): Lise, Japanese/English Deposition Interpreting (Presented on Lise's behalf by Manako Ihaya)
IJET-9 (Yokohama, Japan May 23-24, 1998, organized by Japan Association of Translators): Lise (panel discussion comments) Taking More Money for Your Translations
IJET-8 (Sheffield, UK June 19-21, 1997, organized by Japan Association of Translators): Lise, Symbols, Abbreviations and Layout Issues in J-E Translation
IJET-7 (Yokohama, Japan May 18-19, 1996, organized by Japan Association of Translators): Lise, Japanese-English Translation of Patent Documents for Filing in the US
IJET-5 (Urayasu, Japan May 24-29, 1994, organized by Japan Association of Translators): Lise, An Investigation of Terminology and Syntax in Japanese and US Patents and the Implications for the Patent Translator
IJET-1 Proceedings (The First IJET Conference, held in Hakone (JP), May 26-27, 1991, organized by Japan Association of Translators): Read

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