Past Events

Date: Wednesday, December 18, 2024 Time: 7:00–9:00 p.m.  Place: Second-floor Parlor (Osetsuma), Book House Café, Kitazawa Bldg., Jinbocho. Website: http://bookhousecafe.jp/ (in Japanese)Directions: See website for maps. Come out from the Jinbocho subway station at exit A1, turn right, and walk...

Date: Sunday December 8, 2024 Time: 5:00 p.m. until around 7:30 p.m. Venue: The Hub, Chayamachi Applause Branch, Umeda, Osaka https://www.pub-hub.com/index.php/shop/detail/94 Cost: At least one drink or food order per person (cash on delivery) Reservation: SWET Kansai

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Date: Friday, Dec. 6 (US); Saturday Dec. 7 (Japan), 2024 Time: 7:00–9:30 p.m. EDT; 9:00 a.m.–10:30 JST Moderator: Mac Gill Join us for a casual virtual meet-up (organized with the EDT time zone in mind) for networking among wordsmiths in North America in...

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....

Speaker: Lynne Kutsukake Moderator: M. Cody Poulton Date: Wednesday, November 20/Tuesday, November 19, 2024 Time: 9:00 a.m.–11:00 a.m. JST; 7:00 p.m.–9:00 p.m. EDT Registration in advance required: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMlfu6ppjMsGNy_dRil-bWRUFo10eEoWrTL 

The Art of Vanishing by Lynne Kutsukake is an intimate, explosive novel about creativity and female...

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, October 26, 2024 Time: 2:00–4:00 p.m. Place: Kita Kamakura, less than a minute from the station. Address to be provided. Host: Bruce Smith (see member profile here) Capacity: 15 (on first-come basis) For details and directions please sign up by sending an email...

Behind the Scenes of an Indie Print Publication Date: October 19, 2024 JST Time: 10:00–12:00 a.m. (Zoom open from 9:40 for visiting) Advance registration required: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMlf-qprTsuH90jqymcmZctWVy1LzVry3XG In 2020, a group of like-minded professionals started Sankaku, a print publication celebrating people and craft. Each book...

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, September 28, 2024 Time: 2:00–4:00 p.m. Place: Kita Kamakura, less than a minute from the station. Address to be provided. Host: Bruce Smith (see member profile here) Capacity: 15 (on first-come basis) For details and directions please sign up by sending an email...