https://www.swet.jp/ An RSS feed of the latest content from the SWET Web site. en SWET Copyright 2026 2026-08-07T03:27:03+00:00 Lynne E. Riggs https://swet.jp/events/event/p_events/1490 These are casual virtual meetups to talk about translation, mainly between Japanese and English. We share experiences, questions, readings, strategies, tools, travails, and trivia, with different conversations every time. New participants are most welcome! The one-hour sessions, moderated by Daniel Morales, start at 8:00 p.m. JST on the first Tuesday of the month. For brief reports of previous meetings, see here.  September 1: Translators do more than turn one language into another. They are often required to be cultural ambassadors for... 2026-08-07T03:27:03+00:00 Lynne E. Riggs https://swet.jp/columns/article/event_report_book_editing_and_the_tuttle_style_of_publishing/_C38 On June 17, 2026, Tuttle Publishing editor Cathy Layne joined a group of fifteen SWET members and others gathered at the Book House Café in Jinbochō to share her story of the last thirty years. Layne first came to Japan in 1996 as a teacher on an exchange from London, where she was a high school teacher. She continued to teach for several years while studying for her MA in Japanese Studies and gradually moved on to freelance translation and... SWET Miscellany, 2026-08-05T11:48:40+00:00 Lynne E. Riggs https://swet.jp/events/event/p_events/1488 These are casual virtual meetups to talk about translation, mainly between Japanese and English. We share experiences, questions, readings, strategies, tools, travails, and trivia, with different conversations every time. New participants are most welcome! The one-hour sessions, moderated by Daniel Morales, start at 8:00 p.m. JST on the first Tuesday of the month. For brief reports of previous meetings, see here.  August 4: In August, we are again looking for translation examples from participants, but this time we invite you to... 2026-07-23T23:11:19+00:00 Lynne E. Riggs https://swet.jp/events/event/p_events/1487 These are casual virtual meetups to talk about translation, mainly between Japanese and English. We share experiences, questions, readings, strategies, tools, travails, and trivia, with different conversations every time. New participants are most welcome! The one-hour sessions, moderated by Daniel Morales, start at 8:00 p.m. JST on the first Tuesday of the month. For brief reports of previous meetings, see here.  July 7: In July, we’ll discuss public domain literature and related laws. As of 2018, literary works enter the public... 2026-07-23T23:08:09+00:00 Lynne E. Riggs https://swet.jp/events/event/p_events/1484 Date: Saturday, July 18, 2026 Time: 2:00–5:00 p.m. Host: Bruce Smith Place: Gulliver Room, Book House Café, Kitazawa Bldg., Jinbōchō, Tokyo. (Room is at the back left behind the cafe bar.) Fee: No charge Website: http://bookhousecafe.jp/ (in Japanese)  Directions: See website for maps. Come out from the Jinbōchō subway station at exit A1, turn right, and walk about 15 meters to the Kitazawa Building. (Elevator from subway to street level at A2 exit, directly across the street from Book House Café.) RSVP: If you plan to attend, please... 2026-07-05T02:53:05+00:00 Lynne E. Riggs https://swet.jp/articles/article/whats_in_a_page/_C32 by Lynne E. Riggs FAQ corner Setting Your Units of Charge What’s in a page? 250 English words, 350 words, 200 words, 25 lines, 2000 characters, 400 characters, 200 characters, 1200 characters . . . All of these, and others, are commonly encountered “standard” pages, by one measure or other. Translators, editors, proofreaders, rewriters, book designers, typists/keyboarders—wordsmiths of all kinds—consort with several of these in doing professional work in Japan. Client: “We have 10 pages of text that needs proofreading (kōsei). How much do you... {{category_name} 2026-06-28T23:39:07+00:00 Lynne E. Riggs https://swet.jp/events/event/p_events/1485 Date: Saturday, July 11 (Japan); Friday, July 10 (North America) **Please note the change of date Time: 9:00–11:00 a.m. JST; 8:00–10:00 p.m. EDT; 5:00–7:00 PDT Moderator: Avery Udagawa Register in advance: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/bHNJBpOKRsCcby2ZQBknBg Writer and teacher Holly Thompson was active in SWET and SCBWI during her long sojourn in Japan from the 1980s to 2023. Now settled in Massachusetts, her diverse writing, spanning fiction, nonfiction, prose and poetry, for children, teens, and adults, continues.       From Bangkok, translator and teacher Avery Udagawa will help us catch up with... 2026-06-28T23:53:45+00:00 Lynne E. Riggs https://swet.jp/news/article/jta_writing_and_style_manual_2026_published The output of the Japan Tourism Agency FY2025 “Promoting Multilingual Support for Sightseeing Destinations around Japan” Project is now available on the JTA website (text in Japanese).  Among the links provided as JTA resources is the latest edition of the Writing and Style Manual, which is available in English and Japanese.  The 9th revised edition of the manual, now 78 pages, is basically the same as the 2024 edition, but more is added to the “Glossary of Selected Terms.” The JTA Signage Project... 2026-05-26T08:12:09+00:00 Lynne E. Riggs https://swet.jp/events/event/p_events/1482 These are casual virtual meetups to talk about translation, mainly between Japanese and English. We share experiences, questions, readings, strategies, tools, travails, and trivia, with different conversations every time. New participants are most welcome! The one-hour sessions, moderated by Daniel Morales, start at 8:00 p.m. JST on the first Tuesday of the month. For brief reports of previous meetings, see here.  June 2: In June we invite participants to bring a small section of translation (of roughly 150-300 characters) to workshop... 2026-07-06T08:30:04+00:00 Lynne E. Riggs https://swet.jp/events/event/p_events/1481 Date: Wednesday, June 17, 2026 Time: 7:00–9:00 p.m. Place: Hifumi Room, 2nd floor, Book House Café, Kitazawa Bldg., Jinbocho, Tokyo. Fee: No charge Website: http://bookhousecafe.jp/ (in Japanese)  Directions: Enter by the stair-and-elevator hallway to the left of the main bookstore entrance. See website for maps. Come out from the Jinbocho subway station at exit A1, turn right, and walk about 15 meters to the Kitazawa Building. (Elevator from subway to street level at A2 exit, directly across the street from Book House Café.) RSVP: If you... 2026-05-08T02:41:33+00:00 Lynne E. Riggs https://swet.jp/events/event/p_events/1480 Date: Wednesday, May 20, 2026 Time: 7:00–9:00 p.m. Place: Ōsetsushitsu, 2nd floor, Book House Café, Kitazawa Bldg., Jinbocho, Tokyo. Fee: No charge Directions: Enter by the stair-and-elevator hallway to the left of the main bookstore entrance. Website: http://bookhousecafe.jp/ (in Japanese). See website for maps. Come out from the Jinbocho subway station at exit A1, turn right, and walk about 15 meters to the Kitazawa Building. (Elevator from subway to street level at A2 exit, directly across the street from Book House Café.) Come join us... 2026-05-08T02:38:00+00:00 Lynne E. Riggs https://swet.jp/articles/article/the_chances_that_start_it_all/_C30 In February 2019, a few months before Juliet Winters Carpenter was to leave Japan after a long teaching and translating career beginning in 1969, she agreed to an interview with SWET members Emily Balistrieri, Lynne Riggs, and Lisa Wilcut during a visit to Tokyo. The following is part of that more than two-hour conversation, as we enjoyed a multi-course nouveau washoku meal and Juliet generously shared from her decades of memories and experiences. Regrettably, the partially edited transcript lay incomplete... Japanese-to-English Translation, 2026-06-28T23:36:27+00:00 Lynne E. Riggs https://swet.jp/articles/article/translating_from_japanese_to_english_jumping_into_the_pond/_C32 Juliet Winters Carpenter Juliet W. Carpenter, translator and professor of literature at Doshisha Women’s University spoke to SWET Kansai members and others on May 20, 2007 in Osaka and headed a workshop-type discussion of points relating to translation of a passage handed out in advance to those attending. The following article is based on a transcript of the main lecture reflecting on five of Carpenter’s translation published over the year 2006. I have been interested in translation since about the age of... General/Other, 2026-06-28T23:37:11+00:00 Lynne E. Riggs https://swet.jp/events/event/p_events/1475 Date: Saturday April 25 (Japan); Friday, April 24 (North America) Time: 10:00–11:30 a.m. JST; 6:00–8:00 p.m. PDT; 8:00-10:00 p.m. CDT; 9:00–11:00 p.m. EDT Moderator: Mac Gill Interviewers: Lynne Riggs and Pamela Pasti Register in advance: here [please click here] The talk will be recorded and made available on SWET’s YouTube channel. For this month’s SWET-wide online gathering, we’ll talk to John Marshall, a textile artist and collector who has turned his fifty-six-year passion for katazome (rice paste-resist) dyeing not only into acclaimed designs and textile works, but... 2026-04-23T06:22:03+00:00 Lynne E. Riggs https://swet.jp/events/event/p_events/1474 These are casual virtual meetups to talk about translation, mainly between Japanese and English. We share experiences, questions, readings, strategies, tools, travails, and trivia, with different conversations every time. New participants are most welcome! The one-hour sessions, moderated by Daniel Morales, start at 8:00 p.m. JST on the first Tuesday of the month. For brief reports of previous meetings, see here.  May 5: With Golden Week hitting at the start of May, we thought it might be helpful to discuss how... 2026-05-08T02:44:42+00:00