Articles
May 31, 2011
A Writer’s Look at the iPad (2011)
by Lem Fugitt
Lem Fugitt is a Tokyo-based geek-about-town, using his experience in technology and business to write regularly on items of technical interest. He writes here about his recent conversion to a new way of putting thoughts into written words.
If anyone had asked me back in March 2010 if there was anything I really wanted or... more
April 17, 2011
SWET Newsletter, No. 127
Translating from Japanese to English Translation as a Teaching and Learning Tool • Ann Cary English Writing in Japan Japan Writers Conference 2010: Highlights • John Gribble There’s No Business Like Po’ Business • John Gribble and Bern Mulvey EFL Publishing in Japan: Myths and Realities • Todd Jay Leonard Publish and Perish: Lessons in the Magazine Market • Peter Mallett Seven Things I’ve Learned About Writing... more
April 17, 2011
How the Heck Do You Write about Japan?
by Alice Gordenker
Journalist Alice Gordenker spoke to SWET on September 16, 2010 in Tokyo, providing a behind-the-scenes account of how she crafts her popular “So, What the Heck Is That?” column for the Japan Times. In this monthly column, in its seventh year as of this writing, Gordenker has achieved a balance of humor and respect in meticulously researched yet... more
December 15, 2010
SWET Newsletter, No. 126
Translating from Japanese to English Summer School Workshop: Translating Tawada Yōko · Ginny Tapley Takemori SWET Events Rebecca Otowa on Writing At Home in Japan • Avery Udagawa Alternative Luxuries in Rural Japan: An Interview with Andy Couturier · Suzanne Kamata SWET Cyber Matters In the Jerry-built Edifice of English and Editing as Mentoring • Torkil Christensen Book Review Literary Translation: Interpretation and Permutation • Edward... more
October 18, 2010
Rebecca Otowa on Writing at Home in Japan
by Avery Udagawa
What is it like to be a foreign-born wife, daughter-in-law, and mother in a 350-year-old Japanese farmhouse? To undergo years of traditional training before becoming the chatelaine?
And what is it like to write and illustrate a book about this experience? To have a review and one’s wedding photo published in the New York Times?
Rebecca Otowa titled... more
September 27, 2010