Swet Columns

SWET Newsletter, Number 90

SWET on Thursdays: Fall Line-up [event announcements]

SWETer's Secrets: Wordsmithing with High-tech Tools [new equipment and services for SOHO workers]

Speaker: Daniel Scuka, editor, J@pan, Inc.

The Art of the Interview

Panelists: (to be announced)

Perils and Pleasures of Online Editorship

Speaker: Michael Watson, professor and Web site editor

Bulletin Board [upcoming exhibitions, book fairs,... more

Shortcomings of Applicants

by Doreen Simmons

Chivalrous Aunt Eva is usually asked to take up cudgels on behalf of the browbeaten employee against an arrogant or unappreciative client. This time, however, she takes a sympathetic but practical look from the other side, at the problems encountered by people who for the first time in their lives are confronted with the knowledge of their own... more

SWET Newsletter, Number 89

SWET Summer Thursdays [event announcements]

Making Photographs "Japanese"

Presenter: Phil Ono, photographer

Technical Writing and Manual Production: Explaining the Unexplainable

Presenter: Hugh Ashton, technical writer, translator

SWETer's Secrets: Wordsmithing with High-tech Tools [new equipment and services for SOHO workers]

Presenter: Daniel Scuka, editor

Speak SWET [call for meeting topics; list to date]

2000 SWET Book Fair [report]

Dear Aunt Eva (DS) [assessing and... more

Rewriting at Home

by Doreen Simmons

A recent thread on SWET-L (and if you don’t belong to SWET’s own mailing list, you’re missing out on a useful free resource) sparked much kindly and practical advice. Now, nobody is more kindly and practical than lovable Aunt Eva, and here are her own thoughts on the subject. The original request is used with permission.

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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

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Kim Schuefftan and the Heyday of Culture Books

by Lynne E. Riggs

Kim Schuefftan’s claim that he has been in Japan from Jōmon 3 is easily betrayed by his youthful smile and ruddy complexion. A few gray hairs and stories of books now considered classics in the world of publishing on Japan advise us that he is a senpai par excellence. Actually, he came to Japan in 1963. Starting... more