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, 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...
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....
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...
