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.
Featuring dishes from Japanese Farm Food and a talk by author Nancy Singleton Hachisu
Date: January 25, 2013 (Friday)
Time: 6:30-9:00 p.m.
Place: Wesley Center (6-10-7 Minami Aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo Map); Room 205
Fee: ¥3,000 per person members and non-members...
Date & Time: December 8th, 2012, doors open at 6 p.m., starts at 6.30 p.m.
Location: Pizzeria Va Booo (Map)
(We have the entire restaurant to ourselves, so it'll be a non-smoking event.)
Address: 5-13-12 Nishitenma, Kita-ku, Osaka (大阪府大阪市北区西天満5-13-12)
Getting there:...
What Every Professional Writer and Translator Needs to Know
Speaker: Eric Johnston
Date: Saturday 8th December 2012
Time: 2:30 - 4:00 p.m. (followed by the bonenkai starting nearby at 6.30 p.m.)
Fee: 1,000 yen SWET, JAT members and students; 1,500 yen non-members
Place: Yamanishi...
Leader: Rebecca Otowa
Date: Sunday, September 23, 2012 (followed by early dinner)
Time: 13:30-16:30
Fee: 2,000 yen for JAT/SWET members; 2,500 for non-members
Place: Kyoto Otani Hall Meeting Room #3 (map)
Address: 〒600-8164 京都市下京区諏訪町通六条下る上柳町215 (10 minutes' walk from JR Kyoto Stn)
Reservations:...
Speaker: Alexander O. Smith
Place: Wesley Center (6-10-7 Minami Aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo) 東京都港区南青山6－10－7 (Map)
Date: Sunday, September 16, 2012
Time: 3:00–5:00 p.m.
Attendance Fee: 1,000 yen for SWET members; 1,500 yen for non-members; special student rate, 500 yen.
For further...
SWET member Lynne Riggs will give a workshop with presentation and demonstration at JAT on September 8, 2012, on Writing Skills in Translation (Turning a Rough Draft into Effective English). Details here.
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CHASING STORIES: TWO JOURNALISTS ON THE RUN
with Lucy Birmingham and David McNeill
CELEBRATE the summer in good SWET company with a good food and drink catered by To the Moon and Back.
MEET two dynamic Japan-based journalists discussing their writing,...
Date: July 8, 2012
Time: starting at 12 noon
Place: Kobe Club, Kitano-cho, Kobe (http://www.kobeclub.org)
Address: 神戸市中央区北野町4-15-1 (map)
Light lunch: Served on terrace at 1.30 pm 2,500 yen (incl tax) per
person (to pay on arrival)
Cash bar and extra kids’ snacks available
Swimming: (optional!)...
