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.
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, July 25, 2025
Time: 6:30–9:00 p.m.
Place: Gulliver Room, Book House Café, Kitazawa Bldg., Jinbocho.
Braving the heat, taking the train, and seeing each other in person for a change! Book House Café offers a centrally located haven for Kanto-based wordsmiths, simple fare,...
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, June 21, 2025
Time: 10:00 a.m.–12:00 noon JST; Zoom open at 9:30 for visiting
Editing is the vital and underappreciated art that we practice daily and often toil over professionally. To complement SWET online and in-person networking for translators and...
Date: Saturday, June 14, 2025
Time: 2:00–5:00 p.m.
Host: Bruce Smith (see our online directory for profile)
Capacity: 12 (on first-come basis)
The Writers’ Salon was held as usual in Kita-Kamakura. As always, this is a get-together of working writers, published authors, bloggers, journalists, editors, 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: Friday, May 30 (US); Saturday, May 31 (Japan), 2025
Time: 8:00–9:30 p.m. EDT; 5:00–6:30 p.m. PDT; 9:00–10:30 a.m. JST (Zoom opens at 8:45 a.m. JST)
Moderator: Mac Gill
A casual virtual meet-up, organized with North American time zones in mind but open...
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
Patricia Massy arrived in Japan in 1965 with a visa to teach English at Kyoritsu Women’s University but with the intention...
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
A casual virtual meet-up, organized with North American time zones in mind but open...
