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.

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...

Speakers: Andrew and Rieko Kamei-Dyche Moderator: Frank Walter Date: Saturday, March 22, 2025 Time: 10:00 a.m.–12:00 noon (JST)  

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...

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...

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....

The Writers’ Salon met five times this year past, gathering food writers, travel writers, translators, poets, journalists, novelists and others together to talk and enjoy each other’s company. With the New Year here, we are looking forward to meeting again,...

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....