Articles
July 23, 2010
The Hadashi no Gen Project
by Alan Gleason
Alan Gleason’s experience as a translator began in 1977 with the manga Hadashi no Gen (Barefoot Gen), as part of a volunteer project that continued for 30 years. Project Gen inadvertently became the world’s first publisher of manga in translation when it issued Barefoot Gen Volume One in 1978. With the tenth and final English volume... more
June 21, 2010
SWET Newsletter, No. 124
Roundtable Translating Shiba Ryōtarō's Saka no Ue no Kumo · Juliet Winters Carpenter, Andrew Cobbing, Paul McCarthy, Saitō Sumio, Takechi Manabu, and Noda Makito SWET Events Walking through History and Writing about Culture · Enbutsu Sumiko SWET Member News Saji Yasuo: I-House Press and English-Language Nonfiction Publishing in Japan · Imoto Chikako SWET Cyber Matters Red Card for Wordsmiths? SWET-L to the Rescue · Torkil Christensen Book Reviews Selling... more
January 28, 2010
About Mori Ōgai on Translation
by Kay Vreeland
The American Lauren Elkin writes a literary blog in Paris and she posted on Mori Ōgai on translation and fallacy. A snippet: “Ōgai talks about the virtues of being ‘wrong’ in translation—adding or detracting from the original text; of most interest, I think, is the final section in which he contemplates how far... more
December 2, 2009
SWET Open Forum 2009: Wordsmithing in Japan
by Katherine Heins
Where to go for translators’ resources, how to control your computer’s Japanese inputting settings, what an editor needs to know about word processing and other software, how to market your professional skills and carve your niche, how to get your work published, what to tell a Japanese author who wants his/her work published—these were some of the questions... more
November 23, 2009
Some Notes on Anthologies
by Suzanne Kamata
According to conventional wisdom, anthologies are a hard sell. Readers supposedly don’t buy them; reviewers are generally loath to review them; therefore, publishers tend to shy away from bringing them into print. Nevertheless, pick up any writing magazine and you’ll probably find a call for submissions to a forthcoming anthology. For example, in the January/February 2009 issue of... more
November 21, 2009
SWET Newsletter, No. 123
October 2009
In this issue:
Features From Behind Cloistered Walls: A Tale of Two Translations • Lynne E. Riggs Remembering Jiho Sargent: Technical Writer and Buddhist Priest • Naomi Otani SWET Events A Poet's Prose: The Economy and Voice of Moving • Bonny Cassidy SWET Open Forum 2009: Wordsmithing in Japan • Katherine Heins SWET Member News Talking Poetry with Jane Joritz-Nakagawa • Leza Lowitz SWET Cyber Matters Lacunae of English,... more