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: May 20, 2015 (Wednesday)
Time: 6:00-9:00 p.m.
Place: Books on Japan (library), Jinbocho, Tokyo; use the A2 exit of Jinbocho subway station; turn left at street level and walk about 12 steps; the "Books on Japan" flag hangs over the doorway...
International House of Japan, Tokyo
Note: The same talk will be given at
J. F. Oberlin, Machida Campus
What is translation, and what is a literary translation? After a half-century of translating, Professor Carpenter is still looking for answers to...
Instructor: Barry Lancet, author of Japantown and Tokyo Kill
Date: May 10, 2015 (Sunday)
Time: Lecture session 2:00-3:30 p.m.; Workshop session 3:45-5:00 p.m.
Lecture and/or workshop fee: 1,000 yen
Place: Wesley Center, Room 204
RSVP: If you want to have an ms...
The Central Japan Literature Society announces its inaugural event, details below. Please join them for an afternoon of discussion and sharing involving literary works. (For this meeting, most work will be in English; other languages are possible if accompanied by...
Date: April 15 (Wednesday)
Time: 6:00-9:00 p.m.
Place: Books on Japan (library), Jinbocho, Tokyo; use the A2 exit of Jinbocho subway (Toei); turn left at street level and walk about 12 steps; the "Books on Japan" flag hangs over the doorway...
Speaker: Makoto Shimizu, Kansai Judicial Interpreters Training Institute
Date: Sunday 15th March 2015
Time: 2:30–4:30 p.m. (followed by networking dinner nearby)
Fee: 1,000 yen for JAT members, 1,500 for non-members
Venue: Hyogoken Shigaku Kaikan, 3 minutes north of JR/Hanshin Motomachi Sta., 7-minute walk from...
Led by Rebecca Otowa, author of At Home in Japan and My Awesome Japan Adventure.
Get that blood flowing again—to your brain as well as your extremities—with a brisk walk followed by a writing-and-sharing session. We'll meet...
Date: January 21 (Wednesday)
Time: 6:00-9:00 p.m.
Place: Books on Japan (library), Jinbocho, Tokyo; right outside the A2 exit of Jinbocho subway (Toei); http://www.booksonjapan.org/location/
RSVP: Please let us know if you plan to come by emailing us at
