Past Events
Past event notices are listed here in chronological order. Detailed summaries or reports of most past events have been published in the SWET Newsletter between February 1981 until April 2012; for these older events, check the Newsletter Archive.
Moderators: Lynne Riggs and Bruce Smith
Date: Saturday, May 17, 2025
Time: 10:00 a.m.–12:00 noon (JST); Zoom open at 9:30 for visiting
Advance registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/eLP-pMQqT9SvmWPoePF7zA
Patricia Massy arrived in Japan in 1965 with a visa to teach English at Kyoritsu Women’s University but...
These are casual virtual meet-ups to talk about translation, mainly between Japanese and English. We share experiences, questions, reading, strategies, tools, travails, and trivia, with different conversations every time. The hour-long sessions, moderated by Daniel Morales, start at 8:00 p.m....
Date: Friday, April 18 (US); Saturday April 19 (Japan), 2025
Time: 8:00–9:30 p.m. EDT; 5:00–6:00 p.m. PDT; 9:00–10:30 a.m. JST (Zoom opens at 8:45 a.m. JST)
Moderator: Mac Gill
Join us for a casual virtual meet-up, organized with North American time zones in...
Date: Saturday, April 5, 2025
Time: 10:00 a.m.–12:00 noon (JST)
Speakers: Melanie Kardas, Amy Kelley, and Emma Hanashiro
Although manga for English-speaking audiences are usually licensed, localized, and published by North American publishers, more and more Japan-based companies are also localizing manga into...
These are casual virtual meet-ups to talk about translation, mainly between Japanese and English. We share experiences, questions, reading, strategies, tools, travails, and trivia, with different conversations every time. The hour-long sessions, moderated by Daniel Morales, start at 8:00 p.m....
Date: Saturday, March 22, 2025
Time: 2:00–5:00 p.m.
Host: Bruce Smith (see our online directory for profile)
Capacity: 14 (on first-come basis)
The Writers’ Salon will be gathering as usual in Kita Kamakura. As the gathering was canceled last month due to...
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Speakers: Andrew and Rieko Kamei-Dyche
Moderator: Frank Walter
Date: Saturday, March 22, 2025
Historians Andrew and Rieko Kamei-Dyche will talk about Japanese History for High School, their translation of a textbook, which was published in March 2024. The volume aims “to accurately and smoothly...
These are casual virtual meet-ups to talk about translation, mainly between Japanese and English. We share experiences, questions, reading, strategies, tools, travails, and trivia, with different conversations every time. The hour-long sessions, moderated by Daniel Morales, start at 8:00 p.m....
Date: February 22 (Sat.), 2025
Time: 2:00–4:00 p.m.
Host: Bruce Smith (see our online directory for profile)
Capacity: 15 (on first-come basis)
The Writers’ Salon will be gathering as usual in Kita Kamakura. If the conversation lags, which it rarely does, it would be...
Date: Feb. 21 (US); Saturday Feb. 22 (Japan), 2025
Time: 7:00–8:30 p.m. EST; 9:00–10:30 a.m. JST (Zoom opens 8:45 a.m. JST)
Moderator: Mac Gill
As our first online meeting in 2025, we’ll begin with self-introductions and discussion of current topics of interest, then...
