What's New
- December 30, 2025
- My IJET-27 Conference presentation at Sendai in 2016 is now uploaded. I believe this completes the restoration of eight of my presentations, which have all apparently been deleted or lost from the website of the Japan Association of Translators, with no reasonable expectation that they will be found or restored.
- December 27, 2025
- Although freelance translation is winding down for most people, I reinstated significant amounts of legacy content intended for professionals. In particular, I restored presentations I have given at IJET Conferences, which have been lost or deleted from the JAT website and are very unlikely to be restored by JAT.
- October 30, 2025
- Reinstated Confessions of a Professional Japanese-to-English Translator to a public folder (it had been password-protected). I also placed Ship Naming Conventions of the Imperial Japanese Navy in an accessible place, although it will probably be of interest to only a small number of IJN ship freaks.
- September 14, 2025
- Added a section to our FAQ addressing questions from students and beginning translators.
- September 13, 2025
- Major modification of website design.
- September 8, 2025
- Partner company Kototech Corporation, having registered its liquidation on July 2, 2025, has a new email and contact information at Kirameki.
- November 23, 2024
- Reinstated documentation of my presentations at conferences (because they are not available at the website of the organization that ran the conferences), but subsequently removed them all, in view of the futility and changed priorities for freelancers wishing to survive.
- November 23, 2024
- Uploaded Chapter 5 of the ATA Japanese Patent Translation Handbook and a revised edition, both written by Lise.
- March 16, 2024
- We renew our commitment not to use artificial intelligence to create artificial translations, for some good reasons.
- February 29, 2024
- The Content for Translators section was removed.
- June 15, 2021
- Overall site rebuild, aiming at making the site more mobile friendly.