News
April 14, 2015
Writers in Kyoto: Launch in Spring 2015
Writers in Kyoto will be launched on April 19 with a talk by Amy Chavez of Japan Times and Rocket News fame. Her title is ‘Things I wish someone had told me before becoming a freelance writer in Japan’, and the talk is open to everyone. (Place: Roars Pub http://r.gnavi.co.jp/h7depb720000/, talk starts at 5.00. Drinks available beforehand from 4.30. Cost... more
April 14, 2015
Juliet Winters Carpenter on “Conundrums of Literary Translation”
International House of Japan, Tokyo
What is translation, and what is a literary translation? After a half-century of translating, Professor Carpenter is still looking for answers to these and other questions; however, she will share with us her insights gleaned from various translations of authors, with particular emphasis on her recent translations of Minae Mizumura's works.
Date: Wednesday, May 13, 6:00-7:30... more
April 14, 2015
Upcoming May SWET Talk Shop: Transcribing
Date: May 20, 2015 (Wednesday) Time: 6:00-9:00 p.m. Place: Books on Japan (library), Jinbocho, Tokyo; use the A2 exit of Jinbocho subway station; turn left at street level and walk about 12 steps; the "Books on Japan" flag hangs over the doorway and a stairway leads up to the library on the second floor. Fee: No fee will be charged. RSVP: Please let us... more
March 24, 2015
Fiction Writing Talk and Workshop
Instructor: Barry Lancet, author of Japantown and Tokyo Kill Date: May 10, 2015 (Sunday) Time: Lecture session 2:00-3:30 p.m.; Workshop session 3:45-5:00 p.m. Lecture and/or workshop fee: 1,000 yen
Place: Wesley Center, Room 204
RSVP: If you want to have a manuscript critiqued during the workshop portion, please let us know by email in advance at SWET.
Fiction of all types has a few... more
March 11, 2015
SWET Remembers: Fourth Anniversary of the Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami
Many SWET members and their associates continue to be involved in projects supporting 3.11-affected areas of the Tohoku region and our own bookshelves and offices are just as vulnerable to the earth's shaking as ever. Articles compiled in the SWET Newsletter, Nos. 128 and 130 vividly recall the events and impressions of those fearful and grievous days. In remembrance, these... more
February 17, 2015
Translation and Shared Literary Imagination in the Early Twentieth Century: A Workshop
The Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture's Research Unit “Japanese Texts in Motion” has announced the presentation of a workshop, titled Translation and Shared Literary Imagination in the Early Twentieth Century.
This is the second workshop of the Institute of Comparative Culture's collaborative research project focusing on the translation and global circulation of Japanese literature and culture in the late 19th... more