Chinese ↔ English : Humanities & Social Sciences Translator

Education Language, Education Elementary Education, Sinology (Chinese Studies), Secondary Education, Language Acquisition, Higher Education, Contracts, Mastery Learning, Creative Writing, Cooperative Learning, Literature, Bilingual Education, Children's Literature

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New Zealand

University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

Bachelor of Arts with First Class Honours (Japanese)
- Research interests included lexical borrowing, translation studies and pre-modern Japanese language and society

Bachelor of Arts with First Class Honours (Chinese)
- Research interests included Chinese sociolinguistics, lexical borrowing and Classical Chinese

Bachelor of Arts (double major: Japanese and Chinese)

Appen Pty. Ltd., Sydney, Australia

Transcriber
He worked on the Verdant ANZ English project,

China-Hong Kong English School, Zhongshan, Guangdong, China

Translator
He was responsible for providing translating and quality control of all English-language documentation issued by the office.

China Hong Kong English School, Zhongshan, Guangdong, China

Translator
This position provided him with the opportunity to develop cross-cultural communication skills and sensitivity as well as Chinese language skills. He was in charge of language skills for the translation of office documentation as well as interpersonal liaison between local and international staff.

Some of his Japanese translated research papers/manuscripts are as follows
-History, Chinese nationalism and the emerging Sino'Japanese conflict
-Interpreting history in Sino-Japanese relations: a case-study in political decision making
-Recent Japanese Studies of Modern Chinese History
-Obsessions with the Sino-Japanese polarity in Japanese literature
-10 The Sino-Japanese War of 1894-95 and its cultural effects in Japan
-China, Japan and regional leadership in East Asia
-Learning Chinese, turning Chinese: Challenges to becoming sinophone in a globalised world
-Stirring samurai, disapproving dragon: Japan's growing security activity and Sino-Japan relations
-Sino-Japanese relations: China's perspective
-Remembering and Forgetting the War: Elite Mythmaking, Mass Reaction, and Sino-Japanese Relations.
-The security dimension of Sino-Japanese relations: warily watching one another
-Sinophiles and sinophobes in Tokugawa Japan: Politics, classicism, and medicine during the eighteenth century
-Nationalism and economic exchange: Evidence from shocks to sino-japanese relations
-The Sino-Japanese Treaty of 1978: The Senkaku Incident Prelude
-Identity and recognition: remembering and forgetting the post-war in Sino-Japanese relations China-Hong Kong English School, Zhongshan, Guangdong, China

Assistant to the General Principal; Translator

-Provided clerical assistance to the senior management.
-Recruitment and integration of international staff, including communication and payroll duties. China Hong Kong English School, Zhongshan, Guangdong, China

Oral English Teacher, Primary; Translator

-Develops cross-cultural communication skills and sensitivity as well as Chinese language skills. Hagley Community College, Christchurch, New Zealand

Technician, Home Economics Department

-Provided technical assistance to a team of educators, including purchasing and ordering, resource management and liaison with external companies and community groups.
-Behavior management in the classroom when required. University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

Peer Tutor, Te Puna Manawa and Pacific Tutorials programmes

-Provided tutoring and mentorship to firstand second-year university students from indigenous and Pacific Islands backgrounds.
-Provided cross-cultural communication and sensitivity. Department of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education-Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia

Research Assistant

-He provided support to a team of researchers working on a research project, including the use of databases and text-analysis software and writing transcriptions, as well as general clerical duties. Spagalimi's Ltd, Upper Riccarton, Christchurch

Front-of-House Restaurant Staff

-Used client-focused approach to customer care. It also provided me with valuable experience working to tight deadlines and developing strategies to flourish in a fast-paced frontline environment. Wanaka New World Supermarket, Wanaka

Produce Assistant and Assistant Produce Manager

-Produce Manager for a small team of retail staff.
-Trained a number of new staff members, including future managers.
-Display and sale of fresh produce and handling customer service enquiries, as well as liaison with external companies.
-As the only Japanese-speaking member of staff, he was frequently called to assist other departments with customer liaison for the many Japanese visitors to the area.

Royalty on the Run - The Legend of Princes Oke and Woke Reconstructed.New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies.

College of Arts Scholarship
Barbara Mito Reed Award

Media/Communication, Performing Arts, Philosophy, Recreation and Sports, Religious Studies, Social Sciences, Visual Arts

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USA

Bachelor of Arts in East Asian Studies, Stanford University, USA

Studied Japanese at Kyoto Seika University with a Freeman Grant

Founder, Game Designer, Artist at Beaver Toad Software, USA
Freelance Translator, University of Georgia, USA
Tour Guide & Translator, Kyoto International Manga Museum, Japan
English Instructor, International Education Research and Analysis Corporation, Japan
Instructor of English conversation classes, Japan Exchange Teaching Program, Japan

New York Times

English to Japanese Translation
Japanese to English Translation
English to Japanese Interpretation
Japanese to English Interpretation

Alternative Medicine, Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing, Obstetrics and Gynecology

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japan

MEd, Educational Leadership, University of Oregon, USA
BA Individual Studies Teaching and Learning A Second Language, Central Washington University, USA
AB, English Language and Literature, Shimane Women's Junior College, Japan

Initial Certification for the Oregon Second Language Benchmark IV Oral Assessment (Japanese), COLFT, USA
Middle/Secondary Initial Teaching License in Japanese, University of Oregon, USAM
United Nations Association's Test of English (UNATE): class A

Translator for the Presidents of Central Washington University
Translator for groups of Japanese exchange students on safety issues, cultural adjustment, and medical assistance for University of English as Second Language

English to Japanese Translation
Japanese to English Translation
English to Japanese Interpretation
Japanese to English Interpretation

Consumer education, Educational psychology, Environmental policy, History, Language and linguistics, Civil law, General law, Journalism, Web content development, Applied psychology, Cognitive psychology, Developmental psychology, Anthropology, Cognitive science, Conservation

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Canada

PostDoc, Simon Fraser University, Canada
PhD Anthropological Linguistics, University of British Columbia, Canada
MA Sociolinguistics, University of British Columbia, Canada
BA Linguistics, University of Toronto, Canada

Certificate in Teaching English as a second language, University of Toronto, Canada
Graduate certificate program in behavior Intervention for autism, University of Massachusetts, USA
Board Certified Behavior Analyst, Behavior Analyst Certification Board, USA

Taught interpretation and translation study at Canadian International College and Arbutus college. Translated several government projects including some contracted by National Research Council of Canada on forestry technology Collaborated with a licensed Japanese language teacher to employ ABA method along with Communicative Teaching method known to be highly effective for second language teaching.

Received Canada Japan Literary Award for a book published by Fraser Publishing

English to Japanese Translation
Japanese to English Translation
English to Japanese Interpretation
Japanese to English Interpretation

Association for Behavior Analysis International

Policy Studies, Women's studies, Diplomatic History, Disaster Nursing, World History, Urban Studies, Gender Studies/Gender Theory, History of Religion, Language Education, Anthropology, Political Behavior, Psephology

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Australia

Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan
- PhD
- Research Student
School of History and Politics, University of Wollongong, Australia
- PhD Candidate
Japan Foundation, Sydney, Australia
- Advanced Japanese Course
Japan Educational Exchanges and Services
- Japanese Language Proficiency Test Level 1
School of Oriental and African Studies, London, England
- Japanese Language Proficiency Test Level 1 Preparation Class
Oasis Japanese Language School, Shiki City, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
- Advanced Japanese Language Class
University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia
- Bachelor of Arts (Science, Technology and Society) Honours 1st Class
Sydney College of Homoeopathic Medicine, NSW, Australia
- Advanced Diploma of Homoeopathic Medicine
Japan Educational Exchanges and Services
- Japanese Language Proficiency Test Level 2 Certificate
Kokusai High School, Tokyo, Japan
- Exchange Student

Translation experience includes the following.

The Mechanisms of Social Exclusion in Modern Society: The Dilemma of Active Labor Market Policy. International Journal of Japanese Studies.

Translation checking for International Journal of Japanese Sociology

Japanese-English translation, Anakizumu bunken sent

Translation and native checking of Japanese-English translations Asia-Japan Womens Research Center

Japanese-English translation of product marketing information for Oasis Language School, Shiki City, Saitama Prefecture, Japan

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

- A conceptual framework for understanding race, class, gender, and sexuality
- Sex in Antiquity: Exploring Gender and Sexuality in the Ancient World
- Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender psychologies. IN: Naples, NA (ed.) The Wiley Blackwell En-cyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies
- The culture of gender and sexuality in the Caribbean
- The gender/sexuality reader: culture, history, political economy
- Sexual meanings: The cultural construction of gender and sexuality
- The Bohemian body: gender and sexuality in modern Czech culture
- Context and background: Pierre Bourdieu's analysis of class, gender and sexuality
- A conceptual framework for understanding race, class, gender, and sexuality
- Sexuality, queer theory, and feminism after: Reading and rereading the sexual subject
- America on film: Representing race, class, gender, and sexuality at the movies
- Queer theory, butch/femme identities and lesbian space
- Gender and sexuality: Critical theories, critical thinkers
- Mind the gap Masculinity studies and contemporary gender/sexuality thinking
- On the depoliticisation of intersectionality talk: Conceptualising multiple oppressions in critical sexuality studies
- Lesbian, gay, and bisexual people of color: Understanding cultural complexity and managing multiple oppressions.
- Multiple oppressions and their influence on collective action: the case of the AIDS movement.
- Critical research and policy debates in disability and sexuality studies

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia

Research Assistant to Professor Vera Mackie

AEON Shiki School Higashi, Niiza City, Saitama Prefecture, Japan

English Teacher

Edmen Community Staffing Solutions Shellharbour Road, Warrawong, NSW, Australia

Disability Support Worker

Australian Register of Homoeopaths Ltd. 122 Church Street, Wollongong, NSW, Australia

Administrative Support Officer

Self-Employed Port Kembla and Thirroul, NSW, Australia

Homoeopath

Karuna Clinic, Homoeopathic and Complementary Medicine Wollongong, NSW, Australia

Receptionist

Illawarra Area Health Service and Illawarra and South-East Sydney Area Health Service Wollongong, NSW, Australia

Administrative Assistant

- Precarious Times: The Revolutionary Potentiality of the Present. In The Revolution of Time in a Time of Revolution. Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
- Review of Gender and Labour in Korea and Japan: Sexing Class. Intersections 28.
- The Sydney Homoeopathic Dispensary: A Social History of Homoeopathy in Early Sydney Honours dissertation, University of Wollongong.
- Academic Papers Presented
- The Circulation of Struggle: Sources of Contemporary Japanese Protest Culture, 17th Biennial Japan Studies Association of Australia, University of Melbourne.
- May Day! May Day! Freeters Fight for Freedom and Survival, Asian Studies Conference in Japan, International Christian University, Tokyo.
- Globalization from Below: Producing the Common in Tokyos Radical Spaces, Association for Asian Studies/International Convention of Asian Scholars Joint Conference, Honolulu.
- Japan Studies as a Political Practice: Subjectivity and the Research Process, Rhizomes VI, School of Languages and Cultural Studies, University of Queensland.
- All Power to the Precarious: The Politics of the Freeters Union, Japanese Studies Graduate Summer School, Australian National University.
- Precarious Times: The Immanence of Precarious Struggle, From Empire to Commonwealth, University of Wollongong.

- Monbukagakusho Research Student Scholarship
- Japan Studies Association of Australia Conference Postgraduate Scholarship
- Australian Postgraduate Award for Higher Degree Research
- Dean's Merit List 1st Class Honours, University of Wollongong
- Dean's Merit List for Academic Excellence, University of Wollongong
Memberships
- Golden Key International Honour Society
- Japan Foundation, Sydney
- Japanese Studies Association of Australia
- Asian Studies Association of Australia
- Association for Asian Studies

Law, Social Sciences

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Australia

PhD Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University Master of East Asian Studies, Australian National University, Faculty of Asian Studies Graduate Diploma in Political Science, Australian National University, Political Science Department Certificate in Teaching Japanese as a Second Language, Arc Academy, Osaka, Japan Certificate in Paralegal Studies, Georgetown University, US

Fulltime translator of business and technical documents for a major US conglomerate in the translation industry
Faculty Research Assistant, Faculty of Social Welfare, University of Osaka Prefecture, Japan (including translating and interpreting responsibilities)
Interpreter at various international conferences such as World Environmental Conference, Very Special Arts Conference, and International Disability Conference
Freelance translator in social sciences, social epidemiology, public policy, and public health
Assisted public offices including prosecutors as an interpreter and translator in Japanese and English

She has published papers on the welfare systems and geriatrics care in Japan in the Social Science Japan journal and in a publication of the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian National University.
She also presented a paper analyzing the Japanese welfare system at the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University

Other Professional Experience
Consultant, World Bank Group, Global Mobility and Work Life Program, Zambia
Consultant, Philippines Australia Governance Facility, Manila, Philippines
International Liaison Officer for The International VAWE Project: A Study of Welfare
English teacher, Bilingual Academy, Osaka Japan
Conducted training at various welfare-related organizations, such as Hirakata City Council, Hirakata Welfare Council, and Correctional Institute of Osaka
Voluntary activities for community development projects in Malawi, Zambia, and Philippines through Japanese
Associations, Asian Women's Associations, International Women's Associations, Swedish School, Alliance Franchise, and other community organizations and specific projects
Research Assistant, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian National University, Canberra

National Capital Area Paralegal Association (NCAPA)
Full PhD scholarship, Australian National University
PhD tuition scholarship, Australian National University Highlights
Visiting Research Fellowship, Institute of Social Sciences, Tokyo University
Published academic author