Discounted for SWET Members

Date: October 22, 2016
Place: Yokohama International School, Yokohama
Fee: Advance registration 3,500 yen for current SCBWI or SWET members; 5,000 yen for nonmembers. At the door 4,500 yen for current SCBWI or SWET members; 6,000 yen for nonmembers.

Advance registrations and translations of workshop texts due by Friday, October 7, 2016.

SCBWI Japan announces Translation Day 2016, a biennial, one-day event for translators of Japanese children’s literature into English—this year including both prose and manga.

Ginny Tapley Takemori, translator of The Secret of the Blue Glass by Tomiko Inui and The Whale that Fell in Love with a Submarine by Akiyuki Nosaka, will offer a solo talk and a translation workshop. Zack Davisson, translator of the manga series Kitaro and Showa: A History of Japan by Shigeru Mizuki, will joust with Alexander O. Smith, translator of Brave Story by Miyuki Miyabe, via Skype. Yumiko Sakuma, translator and critic, will give an expert overview of Japanese children’s/YA publishing today and tomorrow. And Julia Marshall, founder of Gecko Press in New Zealand, will give a video glimpse of how she acquires “curiously good books from around the world.”

Join us! Details about advance registration, the full schedule, and more are here: https://japan.scbwi.org/events/scbwi-japan-translation-day-2016/