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.

Translator Tuesdays are casual virtual meet-ups to talk about translation mainly between Japanese and English: experiences, questions, reading, strategies, tools, travails, and trivia. The hour-long sessions, moderated by Daniel Morales, start at 8:00 p.m. JST on the first Tuesday of...

Translator Tuesdays are casual virtual meet-ups to talk about translation: experiences, questions, reading, strategies, tools, travails, and trivia. The hour-long sessions, moderated by Daniel Morales, start at 8:00 p.m. JST on the first Tuesday of the month. Here is what...

Date: Friday evening, July 26 (North America time zones); Saturday morning, July 27 (Japan) Time: 8:00–10:00 p.m. EDT; 9:00–11:00 a.m. JST What will bring us together of a summer’s evening/day? A pile of books to give away? A new project to introduce?...

Material Culture and Its Value to Tourism Promotion and Visitor Education in Japan

Speaker: Morgan Pitelka Moderator: Frank Walter Date: Sunday, June 23, 2024 (Saturday, June 22, EDT) Video link: https://youtu.be/tTc3MdSxYLg Centers of heritage tourism in Japan are overrun with tourists,...

Date: Saturday, June 22, 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 to 

Speaker: Burritt Sabin Date: June 15, 2024 Time: 10:30 a.m. Place: Yamanouchi Community Hall, 1364 Yamanouchi, Kita-Kamakura (山ノ内公会堂, 2 minutes’ walk south of Kita Kamakura Station (next to Tokei-ji)  Fee: Free of charge (no reservations required)

From the second decade of the last century through...

Translator Tuesdays are casual virtual meet-ups to talk about translation: experiences, questions, reading, strategies, tools, travails, and trivia. The hour-long sessions, moderated by Daniel Morales, start at 8:00 p.m. JST on the first Tuesday of the month. Here is what...

Date: Saturday, May 18, 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...

Date: Friday, May 17 (US); Saturday May 18 (Japan), 2024 Time: 7:00–9:30 p.m. EDT; 8:00 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...

Date: Tuesday, May 7, 2024, with subsequent sessions planned for the first Tuesday of the month: June 4, July 2, August 6, September 3… Time: 8:00–9:30 p.m. JST Moderator: Daniel Morales

Join us for a casual virtual meet-up to talk about translation: experiences, questions,...