I have been resident in Japan since March 1984. I came to Japan because I’d got a job. I was completing a doctorate on the 18th-century English poet, Alexander Pope, and particularly on his letters, and I was hired by a Professor Tanizaki, who had just spent a year’s sabbatical in Edinburgh, studying the works of Thomas Carlyle. I spent five years at Tokushima Bunri University as a ‘Guest Professor’, and then got a tenured post at Shikoku Gakuin University, where I’ve been teaching full-time ever since. I married a Japanese farmer and we have three sons. I’ve published quite a few academic articles, monographs and book reviews on English and Japanese literature. In recent years, I’ve been writing ‘creative non-fiction’ about my life here in Japan. I have also written a murder mystery set on a Japanese university campus. It is called ‘Imperfect Strangers’ and is to be published (under the pseudonym ‘Jeanne O’Harra’) in digital form in a few months by Endeavour Press (UK) and in print form by Fine Line Press (UK). I look forward to meeting other writers!

母国カナダにて1998年から国際ビジネスコミュニケーションやジャーナリズムにおいてキャリアを構築。シニアジャーナリストとしてアクションスポーツ界でキャリアを築いた後、2002年に渡日。トヨタ自動車株式会社の海外広報部門での経験を経て独立し、現在、翻訳や編集・校正を行う。最愛の国「日本」と世界のコミュニケーションの橋渡し役となるため尽力。神奈川県在住。

現在までの実績（順不同）
トヨタ自動車株式会社、スズキ株式会社、株式会社 サテライト・ビジネス・ネットワーク、株式会社スペースシフト、株式会社博報堂、株式会社みずほ銀行、ソニー株式会社、株式会社日立製作所、富士重工業株式会社、花王株式会社、立命館大学、独立行政法人日本貿易振興機構（ジェトロ）、独立行政法人国際協力機構（JICA）、KPMGなど。

Born in Pennsylvania, I went to college in Ohio and spent my third year in Japan (1970). Residing in Tokyo since 1976, I have been deepening my knowledge of Japan and learning how to write, edit, and translate ever since. My world of translation was once predominantly academic texts (humanities and social sciences), pushing me far beyond the pale content of 1970s Japanese studies; the 1980s and 1990s were full of challenging projects on culture and the arts. The type of translation that is in demand has changed over the decades, but chances to translate about philosophy, religion, business history, art, and architecture kept my calendar full. Book translation has fallen off, but demand remains for art catalogues, tourism-related texts, and general culture-related projects.
  I am a dedicated member of the community of SWET; with its comings and goings over 40 years, it has been for me a bastion of professional support, community, and friendship. Twelve years as managing editor at the journal Monumenta Nipponica was rigorous training in scholarship, managing a (then-quarterly) publication, editing, proofreading, and clerical work. Fifteen years of teaching J-to-E translation at International Christian University kept me going back to the basics, striving to explain what I do, and encouraging young people interested in translation. I raised two children while carrying on with my career. I helped Takechi Manabu (http://cichonyaku.com/the-japan-interpreter/takechi-manabu-en/) keep our small company going for 33 years until he passed away suddenly in January 2023, and am planning to keep the Center for Intercultural Communication going as long as I can—with the help of our faithful colleagues and my many SWET friends.

Jim Rion is a writer and translator in Yamaguchi Prefecture. In addition to generalist translation work he focuses largely on the Japanese sake & shochu industries and has written and translated extensively in those fields. He is the author of Discovering Yamaguchi Sake, a look into the local sake breweries of Yamaguchi and the communities that surround them.

I grew up in small town New Zealand and big city Australia, and now write short fiction and screenplays from a small room in an old house overlooking a samurai castle in Himeji city, western Honshu. My stories have appeared in TIME Asia, the New York Times, the Weekend Australian, the South China Morning Post and The Paris Review.

Experienced translator; full-time since Heisei 1 (1989)!
Marketing and general business are particular strengths.

SAKAKIBARA Tomoki (榊原知樹) is a translator and university lecturer.

1996 Earned degree in Asian studies from the University of Oregon; minors in anthropology and Japanese
2001 Passed JLPT 1
2008 Began translating full time
2013 In-house translator for globally recognized Japanese soy sauce maker
2014 Started in-house as a translator and editor at the Nippon Communications Foundation (Nippon.com)

Bruce Smith is a writer who has focused on late-nineteenth-and-early-twentieth-century decorative arts and architectural, and sometimes food. He is a specialist on the life and work of Charles and Henry Greene. His book on their architecture, Greene & Greene Masterworks (Chronicle Books, 1998) was one of the New York Times Editor’s Choice architectural books of the year. He has also written, Greene & Greene: Developing a California Style (Gibbs Smith, Publisher, 2011), and the award-winning Six California Kitchens (Chronicle Books, 2022) that he co-authored with the founder of the French Laundry, Sally Schmitt. With his wife, Yoshiko Yamamoto, he has also written The Japanese Bath (Gibbs Smith, Publisher 2001), Arts and Crafts Ideals (Gibbs Smith, Publisher 1999), and The Beautiful Necessity: Decorating with Arts and Crafts (Gibbs Smith, Publisher 1996) as well as numerous magazine articles for both Japanese and American publications. He also founded with Yoshiko a small press, The Arts & Crafts Press, (http://www.artsandcraftspress.com) that from 1996 to 2006 issued books and a magazine, all letterpress printed and bound by hand. The press currently issues Yoshiko’s handprinted block prints.

Ruth P. Stevens consults on customer acquisition and retention, specializing in B2B markets. She advises companies on go-to-market strategy, sales lead generation, customer and prospect data, content marketing and ABM.  Crain’s BtoB magazine named Ruth one of the 100 Most Influential People in Business Marketing. 

Ruth also teaches marketing at business schools in the U.S. and abroad.  She has taught at Columbia and NYU Stern business schools in New York, and abroad at Hong Kong UST, Singapore Management University, Athens College, San Andres University (Buenos Aires) and Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. 

Ruth is a guest blogger at Biznology, Target Marketing Magazine, and Business 2 Community, and a contributing writer at AdAge.  Her newest book is B2B Data-Driven Marketing: Sources, Uses, Results.  Ruth has held senior marketing positions at Time Warner, Ziff-Davis, and IBM and holds an MBA from Columbia University.  Learn more at http://www.ruthstevens.com.

Currently seeking opportunities to provide arrangement, guiding,  interpretation, and translation services to journalists who will visit Ise-shima Island for the G7 Summit Meeting.
Also, to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Arita ware in Saga prefecture in Kyushu, I’m seeking an opportunity in contributing articles about the Arita ware to some media. If you know editors who would be interested, please let me know.

Interests include literature and such genres as prose poem, essay, zuihitsu, and YA fiction; art; craft; wisdom traditions; folklore, fables and folktales; myths and their texts,; storytelling; sacred, folk, native, delta and Chicago blues, jazz, and nearly all other forms of music; rituals; contemporary poetry and ecopoetics; wayang kulit and any puppet theatre; Javanese batik, dance, and gamelan; and all other kinds of dance. Published word-work in print and online at present ranges from magazine editing and writing, book editing, copywriting, and corporate texts to criticism, lyric essay, co-translating European poetry with author, and a few poems.

Meg Taylor is an independent editor for publishers, curators, and scholars in Canada, the United States, and Asia, specializing in books and catalogues on art and architecture, Asian literature in translation, and general nonfiction. She was the editorial director of the Art Canada Institute (Massey College, University of Toronto) from 2012 to 2015 and continues to edit for the ACI’s Online Art Book Project, which publishes simultaneously in English and French. Since 2014 she has been the managing editor for Monkey Business: New Writing from Japan, edited by Ted Goossen and Shibata Motoyuki. She is the academic coordinator for the postgraduate Publishing Certificate program, Ryerson University, Toronto (2011–present) and has taught substantive and stylistic editing in that program since 2005. She began working as an editor in 1979 at Weatherhill in Tokyo (now an imprint of Shambhala in Boston). She has worked in-house as a senior editor at Penguin Canada, Doubleday Canada, and Key Porter Books. Member of Editors Canada.