Past Events

Please note this was originally scheduled for July 18 but is now on July 19 because of event space availability.

Date: July 19, 2018 (Thurs.) Time: 7:00–9:00 p.m. 

Location: Tokyo (Book House Café, Jimbocho, 2F Gulliver Room) http://bookhousecafe.jp/ Come out Jinbocho subway exit A1, turn right and...

Special guest Alan Gleason

Time: 6:00–9:00 p.m. Discussion starts at 7:00. Place (new venue): Book House Cafe, Jinbocho 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...

Creative Writing Workshop, Kyoto, June 9 (Sat.) John Einarsen's Photographs and Flash Fiction Writing Concept and Moderator: Rebecca Otowa Time: 2:00–5:00 p.m. (workshop); 5:00–7:30 p.m. (dinner) Place: TKP Kyoto Shijo Karasuma Kaigishitsu, Room 1 (7F) https://www.kashikaigishitsu.net/facilitys/kg-kyoto-shijokarasuma/access/  (Exit 13, take elevator in hallway next to Doutor, not Starbucks) Google Maps: http://bit.ly/TKPbyStarbucks  Admission: ¥1,500 (members),...

Double-Header

• Rob Goss, on a SWET special interest group for travel writers

• Getting down to Brass Tacks on the Japan Style Sheet, 3rd edition

Time: 6:00–9:00 p.m. Discussion starts at 7:00. Place: Book House Cafe, Jinbocho http://bookhousecafe.jp/ See website...

Streamlining and Professionalizing Your Translation  

Special guest: Beth Cary

Time: 6:00–9:00 p.m. Discussion starts at 7:00.

Place (new venue): Book House Cafe, Jinbocho

http://bookhousecafe.jp/

See website for map; come out Jinbocho subway exit A1, turn right and walk about 15 meters to...

Date: March 14, 2018

Time: 6:00-9:00 p.m. (Discussion starts at 7:00)

Place: new venue: Book House Cafe, Jinbocho

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...

December's Early Bird Talk Shop Special

With Leza Lowitz and Holly Thompson

Date: December 5, 2017 (Tues.) Time: 7:00-9:00 p.m. (Doors open for visiting at 6:00) Place: Books on Japan (library), Jinbocho, Tokyo; At the Jinbocho subway stop, go out the A2 exit; at...

With Jeff Robbins

Date: October 28, 2017 (Sat.) Time: 2:00-5:00 p.m. (Dinner afterward at Italian restaurant Pacioccone. Set meal is 3500 yen.) Place: (near Kyoto Station) Omiya campus of Ryukoku University (Ask at the gate) Fee: 500 yen for members of SWET and...

Date: October 18, 2017 (Wed.)

Time: 7:00–9:00 p.m. (doors open at 6:00 for social hour)

Place: Books on Japan Library, Jinbocho, Tokyo

At the Jinbocho subway stop, go out the A2 exit; at street level, turn left, go 12 steps, and look for...