Avery Fischer Udagawa’s translations of children’s literature from Japanese include the 2022 Mildred L. Batchelder Award-winning novel Temple Alley Summer by Sachiko Kashiwaba, illustrated by Miho Satake, and the historical novel J-Boys: Kazuo’s World, Tokyo, 1965 by Shogo Oketani. Her short story translations have appeared in Kyoto Journal, Words Without Borders, Tomo: Friendship Through Fiction—An Anthology of Japan Teen Stories, The Best Asian Short Stories 2018, and A Tapestry of Colours 1: Stories from Asia. She serves as SCBWI and SCBWI Japan Translator Coordinator.

Was 34 years in Japan, now not. Help with the SWET website as content facilitator.

I am an Australian literary translator based in Ibaraki prefecture. My published novel translations are The Boy and The Dog by Seishu Hase (Viking Press 2022), Fish Swimming in Dappled Sunlight and The Aosawa Murders by Riku Onda (Bitter Lemon Press, 2022 and 20202), Spark by Naoki Matayoshi and Sweet Bean Paste by Durian Sukegawa (Oneworld, 2017). I also translated the travel memoir TAO: On the Road and On the Run in Outlaw China by Aya Goda (Portobello, 2007). My essay about the aftermath of the 2011 disasters can be found online at Words Without Borders, and an interview with me plus translation of an article by Durian Sukegawa about the Fukushima disaster, is online at Asymptote. In 2021 I was awarded the Kyoko Selden Memorial Prize for Translation for an excerpt from Sukegawa’s travel memoir A Dosimeter on The Narrow Road to Oku.
I write about sashiko on my blog at wattssashiko.com and on Instagram at wattssashiko, and I have translated Sashiko for Making and mending by Saki Iiduka (Tuttle 2021).

Specialist in Japanese culture and aesthetics with experience in history, art, architecture, Zen and chanoyu.

I have been living and working in Japan since 1995, and have been working at a major Japanese IT company for over 20 years. I use TRADOS on a daily basis, and also have experience with Deja Vu, Memsource, OmegaT, and various other CAT tools.
I have done consulting regarding translation quality and AI translation (quality
control and preparing pre-/post-editing procedures).

I’ve been a full-time freelance Japanese to English translator and reviewer since 2013. I have excellent research and English writing skills and can assess the appropriate context and tone for your text. I’m used to using many different CAT tools, I know how to format a document in Microsoft Word, and I can usually tell when there’s a typo or OCR error in the source. (Machine translation can’t do that!)  I am committed to quality, consistency, teamwork, and client satisfaction.

Translation (from Japanese into English)
Academic Rewriting and Editing (English)

MA of The University of Geneva, School of Translation (Switzerland)
MA of The University of Sheffield, School of East Asian Studies (UK)