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.
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!)...
Date: May 25 (Friday)
Time: 6:00-9:00 p.m.
Attendance fee: SWET members 1,000 yen; nonmembers 1,500 yen.
Place: Rm. 204, Wesley Center, 6-10-7 Minami Aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo (map)
Mary King talks about her new book
Date: May 19 (Saturday)
Time: 2:30-4:30 p.m. (to be followed by early dinner/drinks, nearby)
Place: Venture Dream Office, 13F Office One Shijo-Karasuma, Kyoto (2 mins from Hankyu Karasuma Stn and Subway Shijo Stn) 京都市下京区室町通綾小路上る鶏鉾町480番地
Attendance fee: SWET & JAT members...
Date: April 22 (Sunday)
Time: 3:00-5:00 p.m.
Attendance: 4,000 yen for SWET members; 5,000 for non-members
Limit: 10 persons
Place: Rm. 204, Wesley Center, 6-10-7 Minami Aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo (map)
Main instructor: Lynne E. Riggs; other veteran translators and editors...
Speaker: Alex Shishin
Date: Sunday 11th March 2012 (to be followed by early dinner)
Time: 2–4 p.m.
Fee: 1,000 yen SWET and JAT members; 1,500 yen non-members
Place: Room 201, Hyogoken Shigaku Kaikan, Motomachi, Kobe Map
神戸市中央区北長狭通4丁目3-13 (2-minutes north of...
