Chinese ↔ English : Business & Economics Translator

Business Management, Economics,

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UK

MA, Media-Assisted Language Teaching, Brighton University, UK
BA, Economic History, Liverpool University, UK

Translation Checker, SunFlare, Japan
Editor, Society for Testing English Proficiency (STEP), Japan
School Links Coordinator, the British Council, Japan
Assistant English Teacher, Kamiyabe High School, Japan
English Teacher, Grandom Academy, Japan
English Teacher, NOVA, Japan

English to Japanese Translation
Japanese to English Translation
English to Japanese Translation Reviewing
Japanese to English Translation Reviewing

Finance and accounting, audit, banking, economics and general business.

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United States

Certified Public Accountant (CPA), California, U.S.
M.S., Business Administration (major in accounting), San Francisco State University, California, U.S.
B.A., Economics (minor in Statistics), University of California, California, U.S.

Senior Auditor, Blue Diamond Growers (Almond Cooperative), U.S.

Conducted both internal and external audits of various financial and operational functions within the company.

Created, reviewed and modified annual and 5/10-year audit plans based on business risks and corporate goals and strategies.

Developed and maintained proactive fraud detection and prevention programs.

Responsible for auditing Japanese branch offices, by traveling overseas and working with external audit, partnering companies, and legal firms (both U.S. and Japanese firms). Translated all documents and conversations between U.S. and Japanese offices.

Revenue Analyst, Oracle Corporation (Technology firm), U.S.

Reviewed sales contracts at various stages and provide advice to sales, legal, and contract admin personnel for compliance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).

Reviewed, revised and maintained general revenue accounting systems, policies, and procedures to ensure that proper information is generated and reported.

Reviewed potential sales contracts and advised on the resulting accounting treatment, suggesting alternative contractual structure where necessary.

Reviewed signed contracts, adjusting the classification and amount of revenue recognized as necessary for compliance with GAAP.

Senior Associate, KPMG LLP (CPA Firm), U.S.

Performed and led external audits of commercial and governmental entities. Industries included banking, consumer market, information technologies, governmental/non-profit organization, and healthcare.

Researched a number of accounting related issues, such as GAAP, FASB, GASB and OMB, impacting the clients business and financial reporting.

Accounting Intern, RGL Gallagher (Forensic Accounting firm), United States

Researched a number of accounting related issues, such as GAAP, FASB, GASB and OMB, impacting the clients business and financial reporting.

Accounts Payable, LECG Inc. (Consulting firm), United States

Managed monetary transactions for nine domestic and six international offices.

Adept in working with -
ERP Systems Oracle, PeopleSoft, Elite, Great Plains, Timberline, Adage and various other proprietary systems and applications.
ACL (Enterprise-wide data access and analysis), auto-audit and sharepoint.

Finance and accounting, media and entertainment, banking, economics and general business, international trade.

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United States

- M.B.A., International Business, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, U.S.
- B.S., Magna cum laude, Japanese and Theoretical Linguistics, Georgetown University, U.S.

- Director, Standard & Poors Ratings Services, NY, U.S.
- Managing Director - Credit, Natixis Capital Markets, NY, U.S.
- Vice President - Fixed Income Research, Credit Suisse First Boston, NY, U.S.
- Vice President-Senior Credit Officer

- Translated various books on Japanese Bookbinding styles and published by Weatherhill, Tokyo.
- Translated and edited articles for Japan Echo Inc.s, flagship publication, Japan Echo and other documents for corporate and government clients.
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Associate member, American Translators Association.
Standard & Poor's Certified Credit Ratings Analyst for Corporate and Financial Institutions Ratings.

Law, History, Media/Communication, Social Sciences

11

USA

- Master of Laws, University of Washington, USA
- Bachelor of Laws, Kobe University, Japan

Vice President – Asian Corporate Banking Division, MUFG Union Bank, USA
Associate – Equity Derivatives Structuring Team, Deutsche Securities Inc., Japan
Loan and Derivative officer, The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ Ltd., Japan

- Japanese to English Translation
- English to Japanese Translation

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)

Economic Sociology, Labor Economics, Welfare Economics, Management Information Systems, Branding/Brand Management, Strategy, Institutional economics, Operations Management, General Management, Project Management, Corporate Finance, Risk Management, Development Economics, Servicing, Ecological Economics, Organizational Behavior

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Japan

- M.B.A. from Harvard University
Graduate School of Business Administration, Boston, Massachusetts
- Certificate from Economics Institute, Boulder, Colorado
- B.A. Economics from Keio University, Tokyo
- Gifu-Kita High School, Gifu
- Napa Senior High School, Napa, California
- Eiken Grade 1 (with Award for Excellence)
- TOEFL

He has translated numerous complex business websites, pamphlets, company brochures.

He has worked as a trusted freelance translator for following companies/institutes for their business management related translations–

- Research institute of Economy, Trade and Industry
- Bussan Career Partners
- Knowledge Management Cluster
- Sunlane Media
- Nikko Citigroup Limited
- Mizuho Securities Co., Ltd.
- Asian Market Access, Tokyo
- IBJ Securities Co., Ltd. Some of his translated research papers/manuscripts are as follows –
- The foundations of welfare economics
- Applied welfare economics with discrete choice models
- Integrating equity and efficiency in applied welfare economics
- On the aggregation of money measures of well-being in applied welfare economics
- Integrating equity and efficiency in applied welfare economics
- Beyond revealed preference: choice-theoretic foundations for behavioral welfare economics
- The revolution in welfare economics and its implications for environmental valuation and policy
- Sen's capability approach to welfare economics
- Welfare Economics and the Theory of the State
- The welfare economics of a biofuel tax credit and the interaction effects with price contingent farm subsidies
- Behavioral welfare economics
- Price-independent welfare prescriptions
- The scope and status of welfare economics
- Set-valued optimization in welfare economics
- The welfare economics of price supports in US agriculture
- The foundations of welfare economics
- Sufficient statistics for welfare analysis: A bridge between structural and reduced-form methods
- The foundations of welfare economics
- Why equity cannot be separated from efficiency: the welfare economics of progressive social pricing
- Applied Policy, Welfare Economics, and Mill's Half-Truths
- Applied Welfare Economics and Frisch's Conjecture
- Non-paternalistic altruism and welfare economics
- An interview with Paul Samuelson: welfare economics “old” and “new”, and social choice theory
- Welfare economics and social choice theory

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sumitomo Riko Company Limited (formerly Tokai Rubber Industries, Ltd.)

Group Head
- Responsible for overall legal matters of both domestic and international
- Review of various types of agreements, preparation of agreements; corporate documents (articles / memoranda of association, bylaws), drafting of company rules; legal training / education of group-wide employees (compliance, corporate governance)
- Led and negotiated several M&A transactions of German, Italian and Brazilian companies (mid-sized transactions) and a transactions of change of control of Thai and Korean companies
- Ongoing legal dialogues of the companies above and of other joint venture companies in India, China, Mexico and Poland

   The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi Ltd. (“BTM”) European Credit Division, London

General Manager
- Responsible for all non-Japanese credits, i.e. corporate, sovereign and financial institutions in Europe (including Central and Eastern Europe), Russia, Central and Western Asia, Middle East and Africa
- In addition to individual credits, introduced latest credit risk management system based on the portfolio approach and tools such as KMV analysis and real time stock price monitoring system
- Types of risks covered ranged from credit risks, market risks, settlement and other operational risks
- Member of the Audit Committee which monitors credit risk, market risk, operational risk, compliance risk, reputation risk and other relevant risk matters of the Bank’s activities in Europe in general

The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi Trust Company (“BTMT”), New York

Senior Vice President and General Manager, Credit Administration
- Responsible for all non-Japanese credits booked at BTMT as well as BTM New York Branch
- Served as loan committee chairman and chief credit officer of BTMT
- Oversaw and managed both healthy credits as well as problem accounts

The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, Ltd. International Corporate Finance Division, Tokyo

Chief Manager
- Responsible for global relationship strategies toward non-Japanese customers with specific emphasis on North American and European corporations
- Consistent marketing approach at various offices of the Bank
- Development of relationship profitability measurement system

The Bank of Tokyo, Ltd. (“BOT”) Overseas Corporate Finance Division, Tokyo

Deputy General Manager
- Credit sanctions for BOT’s North American and European corporate customers worldwide that exceed certain local credit authorities
- Consistent marketing approach at various offices of the Bank
- Development of the Bank’s strategy toward the non-Japanese credit portfolio

The Bank of Tokyo, Ltd. Shinjuku Office, Tokyo

Deputy General Manager
- Responsible for general branch management and corporate relationships

BOT Financial Corporation, Boston

Senior Vice President
- One of three seconded staff from the Bank to this full-fledged U.S. leasing subsidiary of BOT newly acquired from Bank of New England
- This new subsidiary was BOT’s first acquisition in the U.S. investment banking business bearing strategic importance to the Bank
- Acted as a member of the management committee
- Specific assignment included overseeing marketing activities to Japanese customers in the U.S., liaison/coordination function with the parent bank (BOT) on issues like corporate budgeting