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December 15, 2024
IJET-33 (May 911, 2025) in Fukuoka
IJET-33—JAT's annual professional development and networking event—will be held in Fukuoka on May 9 to 11, 2025. The conference will start with fun activities and festivities on May 9 followed by two full days of presentations on May 10 and 11. Registration starts in December, but for now, mark your calendar, tell your colleagues and friends, and follow us on JAT and... more
September 4, 2024
Susan Schmidt Wins America-Japan Society’s Kentaro Kaneko Award
SWET is delighted to share the news published in the Japan Times that Susie Schmidt has received the Kentaro Kaneko Award, sponsored by the American-Japan Society for her "work to promote Japanese-language education in the United States as well as via exchange programs in higher education." Schmidt has been a director and secretary-general of the American Association of Teachers of... more
September 3, 2024
Available Now! 18th Edition of the Chicago Manual of Style!
CMOS 18 has officially been released online for those with digital subscrptions. Notable changes include the much-anticipated acceptance of the third-person-singular pronoun “they” and capitalization of the word “indigenous” when used as an adjective referring to people. Other changes may be more surprising, like now requiring that prepositions of five letters or more be capitalized in titles and allowing a... more
May 11, 2024
JTA Writing and Style Manual Updated March 2023
The output of the Japan Tourism Agency FY2023 “Promoting Multilingual Support for Sightseeing Destinations around Japan” Project is now available on the JTA website (text in Japanese).
Among the links provided are the JTA's resources for local sites producing English text for sightseeing locations is the 2023 edition of the Writing and Style Manual, which is available in English and... more
April 7, 2024
IJET-32: International Japan-English Translators Conference
Dates: May 25–26, 2024 Location: Toronto, Canada
IJET-32 will be held in Toronto, Canada, on May 25–26, 2024. The theme is “Who knit ’ya? Who are we in the age of Chat-GPT?” Goals are to strengthen the connections within our translation/interpreting community and explore the impact that AI, such as Chat-GPT, has on our industry. More details about the... more
December 31, 2023
Happy New Year: Our 2024 Album
SWET members are scattered around Japan and the globe, everywhere that Japan-related wordsmithing is part of their lives and work. We are pleased to mark the 44th year since our founding as a community for mutual networking and support. Through more than four decades, members have supported each other in the challenges of bridging cultural divides, learning new technologies, and... more