Chinese ↔ English : Business & Economics Translator

Strategy, Management Education, Supply chain management, Management Information Systems, Technology Management, Marketing, Law and Economics, Operations Management, Managerial economics, Project Management, Consumer Economics, Risk Management, Economic Sociology, Servicing, Accounting, Strategy, Corporate Finance, Supply Chain Management, E-Commerce, Technology Management, Behavioral Economics, Sustainable Development, Management, Organizational Behavior, Business, Accounting, Business Management (Others), Corporate Finance, Corporate Social Responsibility, E-Commerce

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United States

MBA, University of Hawaii, USA
BA, Brigham Young University, USA

9 years translation experience includes the following.

Currently a translator with us for many years.

KPMG Consulting Co., Ltd. Tokyo, JAPAN

Full-time in-house translator.

In charge of translating all daily Japanese communications from the business operations unit into English. Examples: Medium-term management plan, organizational updates, company policy documents and employee manuals, communications from C-level executives, human resources, learning & development, general administration, marketing, accounting, information security and other internal functions.
Translated the company intranet into English and launched an internal translation request flow for the consulting practice using SharePoint.
Translated and proofread various client deliverables, including proposals, reports, presentation materials, and manuals (especially those related to Risk Consulting and Internal Audit).
Regularly translated introductory-level knowledge (for internal use) on topics such as RPA, fintech and bit coin. Amitt Co., Ltd. Tokyo, JAPAN

Project coordinator, translator and proofreader

Coordinated the entire process of multilingual translation, interpreter dispatch, and overseas research projects.
Discussed and communicated project requirements in both English and Japanese with international clients, translators, proofreaders, and interpreters.
Led in-house Japanese to English translations, proofreading, and editing.
Reviewed translations in a variety of languages to ensure quality; provided guidance and feedback to freelancers.
Mais Co., Ltd. Tokyo, JAPAN

Web content writer and translator (paid internship)

Proposed and wrote article content in English for the expat community in Japan.
Translated and proofread documents in Excel and Word (e.g., healthcare app interface and terms list, reference guidebook for expats, advertising copies).
Brainstormed and discussed ideas for website design and new projects.

Some of his translated research papers/manuscripts are as follows

The relationship between sustainable development and corporate social responsibility
Developing capabilities and competence for sustainable business management as innovation: a research agenda
Sustainable Business Management: Conceptual Framework and Application
Corporate motivations for environmental sustainable development: exploring the role of consumers in stakeholder engagement
Collective ideals and practices in sustainable development: managing corporate identity
Sustainable development in practice: case studies for engineers and scientists
International business, corporate social responsibility and sustainable development
Corporations, stakeholders and sustainable development I: a theoretical exploration of business society relations
Sustainable project life cycle management: the need to integrate life cycles in the manufacturing sector
Management for sustainable development and its impact on firm value in the SME context: Does size matter
Sustainable development: a review of the international development, business and accounting literature

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Project Manager, International, eBay, Inc., USA

BMO CAPITAL MARKETS

Vice President, US Securitization Group

Assisted and or/managed transaction processes including structuring, documentation and coordination of clients, rating agencies, internal credit and legal counsels in timely fashion.
Assisted and or/led sales process to further develop key client relationships and prospective clients.

Associate, US Securitization Group

Assisted vice presidents/managing directors in all facets of transaction process, including structuring, documentation, obtaining of internal approvals and ratings from rating agencies. Provided written annual reviews of completed transactions.
CITICORP NORTH AMERICA

Associate, Securitization Group

Assisted vice president/managing director in all facets of transaction process, including structuring, documentation, drafting of servicer reports and working with other co-purchasers where Citicorp acted as lead agent.
Provided annual reviews of completed transactions.

Associate, Global Relationship Banking Group

Responsible for research, analysis, and completing approval packages for unsecured and/or secured corporate domestic/international loans to Fortune 500 clients.
Assisted senior relationship manager in cross-selling diverse corporate banking products to existing clients.

Finance, banking, economics, accounting, strategy, international economics, business, international business, management, entrepreneurship, marketing, project management, serving and human resources.

12

Japan

M.A., Social Science and Business, Draper Interdisciplinary Masters Program, New York University, New York, U.S.
B.A., American Studies, Liberal Arts Department, Tsuda College, Tokyo, Japan
Macro Economics Course, Vassar College, New York, U.S.

Assistant Vice President, Rating Communications Group, Moody's Japan K.K., Tokyo, Japan.

Provided Japanese language translation and editorial services to credit analysts across lines of business groups.

Prepared a summary of Moody's reports to upload on Toyo Keizai Online site on a bi-weekly basis. Publications
1. Japan Credit Weekly - Weekly report summary to distribute online to subscribers.
2. Moody's Highlights (Newsletter) 4 times a year

Associate Director, Fixed Income, Rates & Currency Division, UBS Securities Japan Ltd., Tokyo, Japan.

Served as a senior editor /translator/document reviewer in the credit research section, was also involved in report writing.

Publications
1. Global Credit News Prepared Japanese summary of UBS global credit report on global companies and financial institutions.
2. Economics report - Weekly macro-economic report.
3. JGB Daily Strategy - Edited the translated version.
4. Derivatives market weekly.

Senior Analyst, Equity Research Department, Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, Tokyo, Japan.

Served as a senior translator to provide translation services to analyst reports.

Served as a document reviewer to control the quality of reports in the Equity Research Dept.

Equity Derivatives Market researcher, BNP Paribas Securities, Japan.

Writing weekly report on the Japanese financial market.

Translated English monthly economic report into Japanese.

Junior Analyst, Japanese Equity Research, Deutsche Securities, Japan

Financial analysis of Japanese companies in Equity Research Dept.

Translated macro economy report into Japanese.

Assistant analyst, Equity Research, Baring Securities, Japan

Wrote daily news on the financial sector and translated research report.

Accounting, Public Finance, Tax, Environmental Economics, Banking, Finance, Corporate Finance, Institutional economics, Ecological Economics, Insurance, E-Commerce, International Economics, Econometrics, International Trade, Economic History, Labor Economics, Economic Sociology, Macroeconomics, Economics, Managerial Economics, Monetary Economics, Real Estate Economics, Political Economy, Socioeconomics

25

Singapore

Association for Investment Management & Research CFA Level III
Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Program
University of Tokyo
Bachelor of Engineering
Japanese Language School
JLPT Level 1
Temasek Junior College
GCE A Level / Top 5%

15 years translation experience includes the following.
Nanomizer

Business proposals, marketing materials, presentations, technical & legal documents, financial statements, press releases, letters, articles, emails, technical, engineering, legal, marketing & other documents, financial statements, press releases, manuals, articles, books, medical records etc.

Sanyo

Technical Information for Rechargeable batteries

Morgan Stanley

HR evaluation forms

Verztec Consulting

Japan Hour - Japanese travel documentary

Mediacorp

He has translated technical, engineering, legal, marketing & other documents, manuals articles etc. Sembcorp Industries

- Business proposals, marketing, materials, presentations, technical & legal documents, letters, articles, emails
Mitsubishi

Car brochure local words Pvt Ltd

- Translating B2B texts and academic works from Japanese to English for a range of clients

Proof-reading and editing English advertising copy and academic manuscripts

SIRVA Corporate Relocation

Senior Relocation Manager

- Provided bespoke relocation support in fluent written and spoken Japanese and English to senior executives at a multinational phone and computer manufacturer
- Worked onsite at the client’s regional HQ to assist with expansion of offices and retail branches into new countries within APAC
- Provided highly tailored departure/destination services, shipping and expense management services for senior executives, as well as managing large-scale group moves of junior retail staff. K2 Corporate Mobility

APAC Relocation Manager
- Provided relocation policy counseling in fluent written and spoken Japanese and English
- Coordinated bespoke international relocations for senior executives, providing a personalized service with emphasis on face-to-face client and assignee support
- Clients included an industry-leading Japanese consumer electronics manufacturer, plus IT and financial services providers

International Assignment Consultant

- Provided relocation policy counseling in fluent written and spoken Japanese and English
- Translated all internal policy documents into Japanese for use with non-English-speaking assignees
- Negotiated between clients, staff and external suppliers to ensure smooth international relocation of assignees, in English and Japanese Pole to Win Europe

Lead QA, Translator and Editor

- Translated Japanese source material into English, proofed and revised other translators’ work and gave editorial guidance to non-English translation teams
- Coordinated five teams of QA testers and translators to localize a major Japanese video game across multiple European markets
- Developed and oversaw the implementation of the QA testing and translation timeline
- Liaised between translators and the development team in Japan to accommodate syntactical variations across different language versions of the game’s code
Department for Business

Correspondence Liaison

- Coordinated between policy officials and the Minister for Competitiveness and Small Business to provide timely written responses to ministerial and public enquiries
PFI Corporation Ltd, Kobe

Team Lead, Interpreter and Book-Keeper

- Interpreted between English-speaking senior staff and Japanese-speaking local employees
- Managed team of ten employees during day-to-day operations at an investment start-up
The City of Niigata, Japan

International Affairs Division, Coordinator for International Relations

- Translated city publications and served as personal interpreter for the mayor of Niigata City and visiting diplomats and dignitaries
- Interpreted for Niigata exporter mission at Intrude Malaysia 2010 in Kuala Lumpur
- Established a competitive ultimate Frisbee club for the city
- Lectured in Japanese on the U.S. housing and financial crisis

Some of his translated research papers/manuscripts are as follows

- Financial intermediaries and monetary economics
- Post Keynesian monetary economics
- Handbook of monetary economics
- International monetary economics
- The Buffer Stock Notion in Monetary Economics
- Rational inattention and monetary economics
- The unfortunate uselessness of most’ state of the art’ academic monetary economics
- Essays in Monetary Economics (Collected Works of Harry Johnson)
- The role of overlapping-generations models in monetary economics
- Money and Value: A Reconsideration of Classical and Neoclassical Monetary Economics
- Inflation, asset prices, and the term structure of interest rates in monetary economics
- Monetary trends in the United States and the United Kingdom: a review from the perspective of new developments in monetary economics
- Chicago, Harvard, and the doctrinal foundations of monetary economics
- The boostrap theory of money: A search-theoretic foundation of monetary economics
- Money, prices and finance in the new monetary economics
- Henry Thornton and the development of classical monetary economics
- Friedman's monetary economics in practice
- On some current issues in monetary economics: an interpretation
- The evolution of money, financial institutions, and monetary economics
- New approaches to monetary economics: proceedings of the Second International Symposium in Economic Theory and Econometrics
- Saving capitalism by making it good: the monetary economics of John R. Commons
- The development of monetary economics: a modern perspective on monetary controversies
- On some recent developments in

University of Tokyo
Japanese Monbusho Scholarship
Japanese Language School
Japanese Monbusho Scholarship

Tax Law, Constitutional Law, Legal Education, Civil Procedure, Civil Law, Comparative Law, General Law, Competition Law, International Law, Maritime Law, Medical Law, Paralegal Studies, Admiralty Law, Intellectual Property Law, Contracts, Criminal Law, Labor Law, Property Law, Family Law, Corporate Law

9

United States

Bar Admission:

- Cleared Uniform Bar Exam
- Cleared New York Law Exam
Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY

Juris Doctor

Queens College, City University of New York, Flushing, NY

ABA approved Paralegal Studies.

Pace University, New York, NY

Bachelor of Arts in History.

10 years translation experience includes the following.
Law Office of Kanetoshi Yoseda, Okinawa, Japan

Document Reviewer / Translator

- Translated Japanese legal documents such as retainer agreements, termination agreements, and non-disclosure agreements into English.
- Reviewed documents both in Japanese and English and verified accuracy of translation.

Some of his translated research papers/manuscripts are as follows –

- Current theories on expert and novice thinking: A full faculty considers the implications for legal education
- Moral Development of the Law Student: Theory and Data on Legal Education, The
- Training Future Lawyers to Work with the Politically and Socially Subordinated: Anti-Generic Legal Education
- More than Learning to Think Like a Lawyer: The Empirical Research on Legal Education
- The Revolutionary Idea of University Legal Education
- Human nature as a new guiding philosophy for legal education and the profession
- The growing disjunction between legal education and the legal profession
- From Expectation to Experience: Essays on Law and Legal Education
- The use of journals in legal education: a tool for reflection
- Legal education and public policy: Professional training in the public interest
- Scholarly restraints-ABA accreditation and legal education
- Training for justice: The global reach of clinical legal education
- Legal education and the reproduction of hierarchy
- legal education for research and reform
- The Growing Disjunction Between Legal Education and the Legal Profession: A Postscript
- Legal Education, Experiential Education, and Professional Responsibility
- New Directions in Legal Education.
- Bridging the gap: Legal education and lawyer competency
- The quest for professional competence: Psychological aspects of legal education
- The influence of legal education on moral reasoning
- Legal education in the United States
- On what is wrong with so-called legal education
- Legal education and entry into the legal profession. The role of race, gender, and educational debt
- The law school clinic: Legal education in the interests of justice
- The role of legal education in producing psychological distress among law students and lawyers
- Changing legal education: rhetoric, realty, and prospects for the future
- The law school clinic: Legal education in the interests of justice
- Andragogical Basis of Clinical Legal Education
- Law Schools without Lawyers-Winds of Change in Legal Education
- Overshooting the Target: A Feminist Deconstruction of Legal Education
- Transforming legal education: learning and teaching the law in the early twenty-first century
- Internationalizing US Legal Education: A Report on the Education of Transnational Lawyers
- The Revolutionary Idea of University Legal Education
- Human nature as a new guiding philosophy for legal education and the profession
- What Difference Does Difference Make-The Challenge for Legal Education
- The legal education of twenty women
- Building clinical legal education programs in a country without a tradition of graduate professional legal education: Japan educational reform as a case study

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Law Offices of Arthur Okada, New York, NY

Paralegal

- Assisted attorneys with the preparation and filing of various petitions and applications with USCIS and the U.S. Embassies abroad.
- Supervised and trained secretarial staffs. The Research Laboratory for Law, Logic and Technology, Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY

Senior Research Assistant

- Analyzed patterns of reasoning in legal decisions annotated the evidentiary reasoning and created logical models for those patterns, for the purpose of creating methods for training legal decision-makers and legal practitioners, as well as researchers and students, in the use of logic skills.
- Developed management structures for coordinating teams of researchers and for ensuring the quality of their research products.
NYC Administration for Children’s Services (ACS), Employment Law Unit (ELU), New York City

Research Analyst

- Researched the Office of Administrative Trials & Hearings (OATH) decisions for the creation of database to be utilized by the ELU attorneys to strategize their case development.
- Drafted legal memorandum in relation to the employment law and the employment discrimination law and reported to the supervising agency attorneys.
- Assisted in drafting an employee manual to be utilized by ACS supervisory employees.
- Attended OATH trials, hearings, and arbitration proceedings.
Immigration Clinical Practicum, Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY

Research Analyst

- Worked closely with the Central American Refugee Center to assist immigrants with assembling and filing of the citizenship applications to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).
- Counseled and assisted clients in preparing and filing immigration applications and reviewed their supporting documentation.
- Drafted motions and affidavit for relevant state courts and USCIS.
- Engaged in fact-gathering and legal research to determine clients’ eligibility for immigration benefits.

Corporate Finance, Macroeconomics, Accounting, Public finance, Finance, Management, Banking, Risk Management, International economics, Project Management, International business, Risk Management, Risk management, Servicing

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Australia

- Graduate Diploma in Banking & Finance (Chisholm Institute - now Monash University).
- Graduate Diploma in Japanese Studies - Monash University.
- Bachelor of Science (Majors in Mathematics & Japanese) - Monash University.

Worked as a freelance translator/writer for many reputed finance houses and companies such as:

Japanese government sponsored – Law Translation Project

Knowledge Management Cluster

Non-Japanese Securities House

Mizuho Securities Co., Ltd.

Lingua Franca, Tokyo

Asian Market Access, Tokyo

IBJ Securities Co., Ltd

He has carried out the translation of reports on Japanese listed companies, business, finance-related legal documents, reports for the equity research division, and monthly reports on the Japanese economic and political situation.

Translated more than 947,018 characters for us alone.

Translated various correspondence and documents relating to business establishment of financial institutions in Japan.

Translation of monthly report on the Japanese economic and political situation.

Translation of reports originally issued by Nomura Securities, Tokyo-Mitsubishi Securities, Bloomberg etc. (Topics included Japanese Media Industry, GHLC)

Translation and re-writing of Japanese language research reports for presentation as English

language reports to be distributed to worldwide clients.

Translation and editing of internal credit reports and client company reports used for external market purposes.

Translation of financial statements, finance-related magazine articles and corporate newsletters (including Top 5 accounting firm)

Japanese government sponsored - Law Translation Project

- One of a select group of translators that translated Japanese laws and legal commentary into English for this high profile government sponsored project. Work was focused on finance-related legal documents.

Some of his translated research papers/manuscripts are as follows –
- NT-J definitions of managerial positions from FY14.
- Detailed report of CSR's in China.
- Keeping a check on garment factory Fires in Bangladesh.
- "Growth strategy policies for SMEs".
- 35th Annual conference of the European Union Studies Association.
- A Study on adverse selection and moral hazard by analyzing two million policies.
- Apple’s Groundbreaking Report.
- Productive consumption hypothesis, indeterminacy of equilibrium, and dynamics of human aid.
- Thirteen theories for efficiency measurement and their application to airport benchmarking.
- Equilibrium of spatial model of social interactions.
- Spreading of financial crises because of correlations between the returns on investment.

Director, Finance Group, Australia

- Australian-based consulting company involved in advising on Asian finance matters and Japanese to English finance-related translations
- Senior Manager Capital Markets, IBJ Australia Bank
- Relationship management of New Zealand clients and all Commonwealth and State Government entities throughout Australia.
- Marketing, pricing and documentation of domestic private placement issues. Total volume of more than A$30 billion in more than 100 separate issues.
- Marketing of euro medium term notes, US CP programmes, standby lines.
- Development of IBJ’s custody business in Australia for Japanese investors including introduction of new computer software.
- Responsible for negotiation and conclusion of all ISDA Swap documentation with Australian entities.
- Responsible for establishment and documentation of IBJ Australia Bank’s Euro Debt Securities Program.
- Relationship management of Commonwealth and State Government entities based in Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania.

Representative Officer, The Industrial Bank of Japan, Ltd., Australia

-Overseeing documentation and relationships with Australian clients of the IBJ Group.

-Market research for overseas members of the IBJ Group.

Assisted the EU-Japan center for Industrial Co-operation with its English language publication, “Johogen: The Ultimate Guide to Printed Electronic and Cyber Sources of Japanese Information on Science, Technology & Commerce – Editions 5 and 6”.

He was the President of The Kaisha Society - a forum for foreign professionals working in Japanese environments based in Tokyo (established 1985).

He acted as the “go-between” in the arrangement of a "friendly city" agreement between Caulfield in Victoria, Australia and Ogaki in Gifu, Japan.

He was an occasional guest commentator (in Japanese) on Television Tokyo Channel 12 - Business News and other programs for Television Tokyo.

He was a frequent guest commentator on CNN providing comments on the Japanese economy and financial markets. The programme is broadcast live globally in English.

Frequent guest commentator on Reuters TV providing comments on the Japanese economy and financial markets including a special report on the BoJ Tankan. The programme was broadcast live globally in English.

Frequent guest commentator on CNBC providing comments on the Japanese economy and financial markets. The programme is broadcast live to the Asian region in English.

He provided occasional quotes in finance related media reports such as Dow Jones Wire Service, Reuters, Bloomberg, Australian Financial Review, Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Asian Wall Street Journal, and Financial Times.

He has written Financial Times column “Web Inspection”-review of the IBJ Securities web site.

He provided occasional quotes in the Australian financial press.

Speeches/Presentations

Chaired seminars presented by the Japanese Ministry of Finance on the Japanese economy and Japanese government bond markets conducted in New York, Boston, and Toronto.

Chaired seminars presented by the Japanese Ministry of Finance on the Jap

- Translated a paper on Fiscal Policy published online by the Center on Japanese Economy and Business, Columbia Business School
- Translated an article on the collapse of the Japanese government bond market published by Mizuho International
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- Member of the Australia Institute of Company Directors
- Australia-Japan Society of the ACT (Canberra, AUSTRALIA)
- The Japan-America Society of Washington (Seattle, USA)
- Southern Cross Kai
- The Sydney Institute
- The Japan Australia New Zealand Society, Inc (Tokyo)
- President of Kaisha Society
- Australian and New Zealand Chamber of Commerce in Japan (ANZCCJ) (Tokyo)

Business Management, Economics, Law

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japan

PhD Foreign Language Instruction, University of Kansas, USA
MA Teaching English as a Second Language, University of Kansas, USA
BA English and American Literature, Waseda University, Japan

Japanese Instructor for BUSINESS & COMMUNITY PROGRAMS at the University of Georgia
Instructor of English, TOEFL Seminar, Tokyo, Japan
Translator at ITP Strategic, California, USA
Translator at Shin International, Kansas, USA
Teaching Assistant in Japanese, University of Kansas, Kansas, USA
Research & Teaching Consultant in English at TS Group, Tokyo, Japan
Columnist for Ryugaku Kenkyu, published by YIC Publishing, Tokyo, Japan
Associate Professor at Nippon Institute of Technology, Saitama, Japan
Lecturer in English, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan

Wrote master's thesis on the difficulties faced by Japanese students in pronunciation of English words and their strategies for dealing with this issue. Wrote a dissertation on the effectiveness of psycholinguistic reading method for Japanese college students

English to Japanese translation
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