The website of the Japan Association of Translators has a very strange webpage that tells a troubling story.
It is located at https://jat.org/news/articles.
It appears to present links to 183 articles in the JAT Bulletin, the long-defunct publication of that organization, that were written by numerous authors between the years 1997 and 2007 (11 of them cited on that page by me, as listed below). All of the 183 links are broken, however, and it appears that nobody knows where the content is, although people have said it is not lost; I am skeptical. This situation has gone on for a number of years.
The JAT Bulletin was started back in 1985, so this page demonstrates that it was published for at least 22 years, which is more than one-half of JAT’s history. I wonder where all the articles are. I also wonder if the JAT leadership is wondering where all the articles are, and I wonder if they even care.
The broken links to my articles appear to lead to, but don’t lead to the following articles I wrote for the Bulletin.
Qualifying Customers: Rescuing Your Valuable Time From Those Bandits Banging at Your Door by Bill Lise, November 2000
Introduction to J-E Patent Claim Translation by Bill Lise, February 2000
The For-Filing J-E Patent Translation Market in Japan by Bill Lise, December 1999
J-E Patent Translation for Filing by Bill Lise, October 1999
Can I Have an Amen for Patent Translation Being the Only Path Into the Kingdom of Wealth and Fame? by Bill Lise, February 1998
Manufacturers’ Catalogs by Bill Lise, February 1998
The New Order by Bill Lise, February 1998
Choosing Information Sources by Bill Lise, February 1998
The Internet: Will It Save Your Hide or Tan It? by Bill Lise, December 1997
Show Me the Money: Breaking out of the “Poor Translator” Mindset by Bill Lise, December 1997
Recommended Magazines by Bill Lise, December 1997
I wrote many more articles than listed above, and perhaps they are also listed as broken links on yet another zombie page of the JAT website. Who knows?