Fourth Annual Super SWET Special [book publishers discounts]

New Year Party [announcement]

New This Year: Child Care

Toppan Toured (EW) [report: printing plant tour]

Asahi Shimbun Revisited (GW) [report: newspaper tour]

Technicalities: STC Opens a Tokyo Chapter [organization description: The Society for Technical Communications]

Hard Questions [editorial evaluation criteria]

Ask the Publishing Hexpert [underlining type to be italicized]

Janglish [examples of Japanized English]

Over Their Shoulders [translation comparisons: short fiction]

Translators: Juliet Carpenter, Geraldine Harcourt, Adam Kabat

It's a Bird, It's a Plane... [errors/oddities]

Not Tonight, Jane: A Progress Report on Machine Translation (FMU) [convention report]

Going Freelance (LER) [starting and continuing as a freelancer]

Contributors: Jared Lubarsky, writer and foundation executive; John D. Lamb, translator; anonymous editor; Fred Uleman, translator; John Boyd, freelance writer; anonymous translator

A Purple Plum from the Local Press [incredibly long single run-on sentence]

Credit Where It's Due [contributors to this issue]

SWET Directory Update [call for changes and additions]