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: Saturday, September 27, 2025
Time: 2:00–5:00 p.m.
Host: Bruce Smith (see our online directory for profile)
Capacity 12: (on a first come basis)
After a long, very hot summer, the Writers’ Salon will be gathering again in Kita Kamakura. Since there has...
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The growth of AI in translation, with Mike Freiling and Daniel Morales
Date: Saturday, September 27
This is the first of a series of planned talks about the impact of artificial intelligence on translation and related issues.
We begin an examination of the...
Date: Saturday, September 20 (Japan); Friday, September 19 (North America)
Time: 9:00–10:30 a.m. JST; 8:00–9:30 p.m. EDT; 5:00–6:30 p.m. PDT
Moderator: Mac Gill
Join us for a casual virtual meet-up, organized with North American time zones in mind but open to all wordsmiths...
These are casual virtual meetups to talk about translation, mainly between Japanese and English. We share experiences, questions, readings, 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, August 30 (Japan); Friday, August 29 (North America)
Time: 9:00–10:30 a.m. (JST); 8:00–9:30 p.m. EDT; 5:00–6:30 p.m. PDT
Moderator: Mac Gill
A casual virtual meet-up, organized with North American time zones in mind but open to all wordsmiths with a connection...
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...
