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: July 28, 2019 (Sun.)
Time: 7:00–9:00 p.m.
Place: GARB Pintino (French, Italian, dining bar)
3 Chome-22 Kanda Nishiki-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
Website: http://www.garb-pintino.com/ See website for access
Fee: ¥5,500
RSVP: The restaurant needs a headcount, so please be sure to let SWET know by Thursday evening,...
Date: June 19 (Wed.)Time: 6:00–9:00 p.m.
Place: Book House Cafe, Kitazawa Building, Jinbocho, 2nd-floor "Osetsushitsu"
http://bookhousecafe.jp/
See website for map; come out Jinbocho subway exit A1, turn right and walk about 15 meters to the Kitazawa Building. Please take the elevator or stairs...
Date: June 2, 2019 (Sunday) 4 pm–5:30 pm (tribute) 5:30 pm–8 pm (farewell dinner)
Place: Ganko Takasegawa Nijoen, Kyoto (a 5-min walk from Subway Kyoto Shiyakusho-mae and Keihan Sanjo Stations)
URL: https://www.gankofood.co.jp/en/shop/detail/ya-nijyoen
Cost: Tribute – 1,000 yen SWET members (1,500 yen non-members); Dinner...
Time: 6:00–9:00 p.m.
Place: Book House Cafe, Kitazawa Building, Jinbocho, 2nd Floor Osetsushitsu
http://bookhousecafe.jp/
See website for map; come out Jinbocho subway exit A1, turn right and walk about 15 meters to the Kitazawa Building. Please take the elevator or stairs to...
Date: April 17 (Wed.)
Editing Experiences: New Tools, Professional Development and Networking, with Sara Kitaoji
Time: 6:00–9:00 p.m.
Place: Book House Cafe, Kitazawa Building, Jinbocho, 2nd Floor Osetsushitsu
http://bookhousecafe.jp/
See website for map; come out Jinbocho subway exit A1, turn right and walk about...
SWET Talk Shop, March 20 (Wed.)
Time: 6:00–9:00 p.m.
Place: Book House Cafe, Jinbocho, 2nd Floor Parlor (*note room change)
http://bookhousecafe.jp/
See website for map; come out Jinbocho subway exit A1, turn right and walk about 15 meters to the Kitazawa Building. We...
SWET Talk Shop, February 20 (Wed.)
Meeting of Minds on Scholarly Translation: The Proceedings Published
Time: 6:00–9:00 p.m.
Place: Book House Cafe, Jinbocho
http://bookhousecafe.jp/
See website for map; come out Jinbocho subway exit A1, turn right and walk...
Time: 6:00–9:00 p.m.
Place: Book House Cafe, Jinbocho, Gulliver Room
http://bookhousecafe.jp/
See website for map; come out Jinbocho subway exit A1, turn right and walk about 15 meters to the Kitazawa Building. We will be on the ground floor at the back...
Date: Nov 10, 2018 (Saturday)
Time: 2:00-5:00 p.m.
Place: Book House Cafe, Jinbocho, Tokyo http://bookhousecafe.jp/
This talk will introduce Yoshino Genzaburo’s Kimitachi wa do ikiru ka? (How Do You Live?), which is the inspiration behind a future Hayao Miyazaki movie of the same title....
SCBWI Japan Translation Day on October 20, 2018, in Yokohama will feature a workshop by Louise Heal Kawai, translator of Ms. Ice Sandwich by Mieko Kawakami. Ms. Kawakami is described in the Japan Times this month as "one of Japan’s brightest stars . . . set...