SWET Newsletter, Number 88

SWET on Thursdays [announcements]

From Pennies to Profits: Marketing on a Shoestring

Presenter: Thomas Ainlay, Jr., Legacy Memoirs

U.S. Media Coverage of Japan: Biases or Mistranslations

Presenter: Charles Burress, San Francisco Chronicle

Japanese Aesthetics in People Photography

Presenter: Phil Ono, photographer

SWET Book Sale [announcement]

Dear Aunt Eva [working at home as a rewriter]

Upcoming in Kansai

Better Type, Layout, and Design (ref: RS) [workshop announcement: computer application]

Leader: Garr Reynolds, Sumitomo Electric Industries

Monthly Meeting Reports

The Heyday of Culture Books [editing books about Japanese culture]

Leader: Kim Schuefftan, Kodansha International

You Knew Him When [SWET member's translation now on sale]

Book: Japan's Consumer Society: a Critical Introduction (translator: Fred Uleman)

From the Trenches

Of Tanuki and Teacups (KO, PG, NH, JCB, SH, ME, DS, CN; LER, ed.) [official translation for tanuki]

The Editorial Workshop (PF2*) [distance learning]

Resource: University of California Extension, Center for Media and Independent Learning (web site)

Subheadings: Benefits of the Course; Problems Encountered; References

Over Their Shoulders (FMU) [translation comparisons: retail company's newspaper advertisement]

Don Quixote

Translators: David Eunice, Sue Herbert, Jennifer Johnson-Onay, Kay Vreeland

Coordinator's Comments (FMU)       

Book Review (MN)

Book: The Writer's Friend

SWET in the Kansai [presentation report]

From Sumo to Cinema

Speaker: Mark Schilling, journalist

SWET Get-together in Kobe [report: social gathering]

IJET 2000 in Kyoto [conference announcement: International Japanese/English Translation]