Meetings and Announcements

An Insider's Comments on Publishing in English in Japan [lecture; in-print as well as electronic]

Speaker: Terrie Lloyd, publisher, J@pan Inc.

Writing Bicultural Novels: Aspects of the Craft of Fiction [lecture]

Speaker: Holly Thompson, author of the novel Ash

IJET-13 Conference [announcement: International Japanese/English Translation]

Tokyo International Book Fair [announcement]

Monthly Meeting Reports

English Periodical Publishing in Japan at a Turning Point (PN)

Japan's English-Language Periodicals

Panelists: Suzuki Kazue, former associate editor of Japan Quarterly; Peter Matanle, founder/managing editor of electronic journal of contemporary Japanese studies; Frank Baldwin of the Social Science Research Council. Moderator: Lynne E. Riggs, managing editor of Monumenta Nipponica.

Online Dictionaries: High-Tech Translation and Language Learning Website (HA)

Online Dictionaries [lecture]

Speaker: Todd Rudick, developer/owner of Web site rikai.com, a free online lookup service for translators

Winter Party (HU) [report]

Useful URLs [Japanese, British, U.S. copyright law information sources]

Over Their Shoulders [translation comparison: advertising copy]

Japanese-reading copywriters: Susan Chikuba, Bryan Harrell, John McCreery, Bob Poulson, Mark Schreiber.

Getting Started in Japan (TM) [personal experience of Tom Boardman, advertising copywriter]

Subheadings: "Don't think of it as a career move, think of it as a life adventure," she said; Ten Tips for Getting Ahead in Advertising

Threads on SWET-L [government and non-government Web sites]

Dear Aunt Eva (DS) [coping with software-generated J-E translations]

Book Review

Ash: A Novel

Encyclopedia of Contemporary Japanese Culture (MS)