Portuguese ↔ English : Humanities & Social Sciences Translator

Design, Visual Arts (Others), Fine Arts, Art History, Art Conservation, Art education, Action painting, Abstraction, Abstract Expressionism, Aesthetic, Angular, Architecture, Artifice, Arts and Crafts movement, Assemblage, Automatism, Baroque, Calligraphy

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Kyoto Seika University, Japan

Story Manga Dept. Research Student.

- Studied technical skills and manga design under Professor Shuho Itahashi. Stanford University, California.

Bachelor of Arts in East Asian Studies.

Waseda University, Tokyo

- Language Study Fellowship

Inducted into Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society upon graduation.

Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.
Kyoto Seika University

Studied Japanese at with a Freeman Grant

9 years translation experience includes the following.
Kyoto International Manga Museum, Japan, Tour Guide & Translator.
- Translated text from Japanese to English for the Museum's website and overseas exhibits.
- Reviewed documents both in Japanese and English and verified accuracy of translation.
Some of his translated research papers/manuscripts are as follows –
- Symbols of Japan: thematic motifs in art and design.
- Soil liquefaction studies in Japan: state-of-the-art.
- Studies on functional foods in Japan—state of the art.
- SRC standards in Japan and comparison of various standards for CFT columns.
- Posthistorical traditions in art, design, and architecture in 1950s Japan.
- Russel Wright and Japan: Bridging Japonisme and Good Design through Craft.
- Regional Roots of Japan Packaging Design
- Scaffolds for experiencing in the new design space
- Historicizing" Contemporary Art": Some Discursive Practices in Gendai Bijutsu in Japan
- The Imperial Museums of Meiji Japan: architecture and the art of the nation
- Art, Life & Nature in Japan
- The Rejection of Isamu Noguchi's Hiroshima Cenotaph: A Japanese American Artist in Occupied Japan
- State-of-the-art treatment processes for municipal solid waste incineration residues in Japan
- A historical overview of art education in Japan
- Research of the Relationship between Changes of Sunlight Regulations and Residential Area Form-. A Case Study of China, Japan and Korea
- User-centered design: Improving viewers' learning opportunities in art museums in japan
- State-of-Art Product-Service Systems in Japan–The Latest Japanese Product-service Systems Developments
- Aesthetics and philosophy in bridge design in Japan

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Beaver Toad Software, Founder, Game Designer, Artist
- Raised 7,600 dollars through Kickstarter.com to create company's first game.
- Designed gameplay and created graphics for “Cafe Murder”.
Kyoto International Manga Museum, Japan, Tour Guide & Translator.
- Proofread essays for the book “Comics Worlds & the World of Comics.”
- International Education Research and Analysis Corporation, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.
English Instructor
- Japan Exchange Teaching Program, Niigata Prefecture, Instructor.
- Planned and taught 18-20 English Conversation classes a week.

Featured in a New York Times article about foreign students of manga in Japan.

Disaster Studies, Education, Media/Communication, Social Sciences, History, Humanities, Language & Linguistics, Law, Literature, Psychology

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Master of Human science, University Denis Diderot, France Exchange Student,
Master of Human Science, Kansai University, Japan
Degree of Japanese language and culture (DULCO),
INALCO Langue’O, France

Japanese – JLPT 1st grade
English TOEIC 905

- English Instructor, ECC language school GLS, Japan
- Freelance Translator

- English to Japanese Translation
- Japanese to English Translation
- French to Japanese Translation
- Japanese to French Translation
- English to Japanese Interpretation
- Japanese to English Interpretation
- French to

Social Psychology, Sociology, Social Philosophy, Political Science, Political Science, Public policy, Political philosophy, Sociology, Social philosophy, Library & Museum Studies, Social psychology, Theology/Religion, History, Comparative Law, Literature, General Law, Anthropology, Museology

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Canada

D.Phil. Social and Cultural Anthropology from University of Oxford, UK (Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology)

Visiting Research Student in Cultural Anthropology from University of Tokyo, Japan.

M.Sc. in Social Anthropology (awarded with Distinction) from University of Oxford, UK (Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology).

Honors Bachelor of Arts in Social Cultural Anthropology (awarded with High Distinction) from University of Toronto, Canada (University College).

Honors Thesis: Refugees from Democracy: East European Roma in Toronto.

Freelance Translator with immense knowledge and experience in the field of social sciences, more specific to the sociology.

He has worked as an Independent contractor translating documents in the fields of archival sciences, psychology, philosophy, and social sciences for multiple institutes into -

- Public relations
- Marketing and sales
- Consumer research
- Human resources (personnel management)
- Insurance
- Real estate
- Training
- Entrepreneurship
- Media

Translated Japanese to English and prepared educational materials for native English teachers, the local International Friendship Association and municipal Chamber of Commerce.

Some of his translated research papers/manuscript are as follows

- Anthropology and consumer research: qualitative insights into green consumer behavior
- Toward a medical anthropology of sensations: Definitions and research agenda
- Fielding climate change in cultural anthropology
- Photography in anthropology: A report on two experiments
- Raw histories: photographs, anthropology and museums
- Visual contexts: A photographic research method in anthropology
- Doing health anthropology: Research methods for community assessment and change
- Frameworks for comparative research: Structural anthropology and the theory of action
- Visual anthropology: Photography as a research method
- Decolonizing anthropology: Moving further toward an anthropology for liberation
- Anthropology and psychiatry: The role of culture in cross-cultural research on illness
- Optimal foraging strategies and hunter-gatherer research in anthropology: Theory and models
- At the crossroads of human rights and anthropology: Toward a critically engaged activist research
- Anthropology in health research: from qualitative methods to multidisciplinarity
- Moving past public anthropology and doing collaborative research
- Collaborative anthropology as twenty-first-century ethical anthropology
- Chronicling cultures: Long-term field research in anthropology
- A social anthropology of logistics research: exploring productivity and collaboration in an emerging science
- Culture history and African anthropology: A century of research in Germany and Austria
- The ethics of anthropology and Amerindian research: Reporting on environmental degradation and warfare
- Anthropology, public policy, and native peoples in Canada
- Global forensic anthropology in the 21st century
- Aboriginal skeletal collections and research in physical anthropology: An historical perspective
- Environments and environmentalisms in anthropological research: facing a new millennium
- Indians and anthropologists: Vine Deloria, Jr., and the critique of anthropology
- Participant observation, anthropology methodology and design anthropology research inquiry
- Anthropology and the angry earth: An overview

Sanko English School, Nagano, Japan English Instructor

- Instructed high school students, focusing variously on exam preparation for upper level English proficiency testing, preparation for international exchange programs and conversational English.
- Translated (J>E) and prepared educational materials for native English teachers, the local International Friendship Association and municipal Chamber of Commerce.
- Assisted Japanese teachers with activities for elementary and junior high school students
- Instructed adult English conversation classes both at the school and in connection with the local municipal cultural center.

- Dymaxium Interactive Tools, Inc., Toronto, Canada

- Responsible for departmental management including personnel scheduling, performance reviews and project load metrics at a multimedia software firm.
- Authored training documentation for the PM department on standard project process, as well as high-level templates for software design specifications.
- Interfaced on an ongoing basis with internationally-based clients in senior management positions at major pharmaceutical companies, communicating project design details and development status during the project cycle, managing change control processes to ensure that specification change requests from the client were adequately reflected in timeline and budget forecasts.
- Worked with both clients and development personnel to design software user interface solutions within the clients budgetary constraints, with a focus on product educational materials.

Library Service Bureau, Inc., Toronto Assistant Legal Librarian

- Served in a consulting role as a contract librarian for Toronto legal and banking institutions.
- Catalogued and shelved new books as purchased by the firms and performed general maintenance operations for firm libraries, including loose-leaf filing for subscription-based legal texts.

Publications-
Consociationalism in Northern Ireland: the contribution of ethnographic study. Garm Lu, a Canadian Celtic Arts Journal.
Conference and Seminar presentations
Anthropologists of Japan in Japan Spring Meeting, Osaka Gakuin University.
American Anthropological Association 2011 Conference, Montreal, Canada.
Association of Asian Studies 2011 Conference, Honlulu, Hawii.
American Anthropological Association 2010 Conference, New Orleans, USA.
ISCA Work in Progress Seminar, University of Oxford, UK.
Nissan Institute Graduate Seminar, University of Oxford, UK.
St. Cross College Colloquium, University of Oxford, UK.
Japanese Studies Association of Canada 2009 Meeting, Lethbridge, Alberta.

Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology Writing Up Bursary
Japan Association of Student Services, Ministry of Education Research Scholarship
Oxford University Sasakawa Scholarship
University of Oxford Overseas Student Award, British Government

History, Humanities, Performing Arts, Philosophy, Religious Studies, Social Sciences

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PhD, Political Science, Columbia University, US
MPhil, Political Science, Columbia University, US
MS, Foreign Service, Georgetown University, US
BA, Spanish, Osaka University of Foreign Studies, Japan

Language Specialist, Verbalink, US
Research Specialist for the International Nikkei Research Project, The Japanese American National Museum, US
The Law Office of James Nolan, JD, MBA, US
Business Promotion Assistant, The Long -Term Credit Bank of Japan Ltd., US
Edited various documents in the fields of political science, history, area studies, and international relations

Kindle Direct, Praeger, The Journal of Tokyo International University, Disarmament

English to Japanese Translation
Japanese to English Translation
English to Japanese Editing

Cultural History, Linguistics, Diplomatic History, Literature, History of Economics, Urban Studies, World History, History of Religion, Language Education, Anthropology, Theology, Cultural History

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Japan

- PhD in Modern Japanese History from University of California, Berkeley.
Christian Culture and Military Rule: Assimilation and its Limits during the First Decade of Japan’s Colonial Rule in Korea, 1910-1919.
Examination Fields: Modern Japan, Colonial Studies, Historical Sociology.
- BA in Major: East Asian Languages and Cultures Indiana University at Bloomington.
- Visiting Scholar in Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea.
- Visiting Scholar in University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
- Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies, Yokohama.

9 years translation experience includes the following.

Translation of history and business-related documents, such as email correspondences and in-house documents, CSR-related presentations and documents, corporate brochures, etc.

Translation of books, most notable being one about a cultural history of Japanese cinema.

Translation of application guidebooks and information of schools for foreign students for various universities including Takushoku University and Tsukuba University.

Some of his translated papers/manuscripts are as follows –

- Meaning of kagezen and osonae in the literary imagination. -       Handicrafts as occupations for women in local communities. -       Japanese cultural scripts. -       Foreign nursing candidates and bilateral economic partnership agreements. -       Lecture and panel discussion of supply and demand in global energy. -       Social capital of welfare states and its significance for health of the population. -       Critical factors influencing customer satisfaction regarding e-government services.
Lecturer, University of California, San Diego, Department of History,

Historiographies of the State in Twentieth Century Japan.

Designed syllabus and led graduate seminar on the state in twentieth century Japan.

East Asia and the West, 1911-2010

Designed syllabus, organized and administered course for large survey course covering the twentieth century histories of China, Japan and Korea.

Directed four graduate Teaching Assistants.

East Asia and the West, 1279-1911,

Designed syllabus for large undergraduate survey course covering the histories of China, Japan and Korea between the Mongol invasions and the emergence of western imperialism.

Administered course and directed four graduate Teaching Assistants.

Society and Culture of Twentieth Century Japan: Youth in Modern Japanese History

Designed syllabus, organized and administered course for large upper division course on the experience of youth in modern Japanese history, 1868-2011.

Directed two graduate Teaching Assistants.

History of Japan: Mid-Nineteenth Century to the U.S. Occupation,

Designed syllabus, organized and administered course for large upper division course on modern Japanese history, 1868-1945.

Directed two graduate Teaching Assistants.

The Meiji Period in Japan as Historiography

Designed syllabus and led graduate seminar on the historiographical uses of Japan’s Meiji period (1868-1912) as a metaphor for Japanese modernity.

Lecturer, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Department of History,

Christianity in East Asia.

Conducted undergraduate seminar examining how Christianity has shaped the modern and early modern histories of Japan, Korea and China.

Redesigned syllabus as an upper-division lecture course for the spring session.

Modern East Asian History- from 1600 to the present,

Designed course syllabus, organized and administered course.

Directed graduate Teaching Assistant.

His selected publications are as follows –

Christian Culture and Military Rule: Assimilation and its Limits during the First Decade of Japan’s Colonial Rule in Korea, 1910-19. Ph.D. dissertation. University of California, Berkeley.

“Constructing the Divine Nation: Empire and Providence in the Thought of Ebina Danj,” in Social Science Japan.

“Nihon teikoku no shihaika ni okeru ch'sen kirisutoky seinenkai to seishinteki kyiku no senryaku” (The Korean Young Men’s Christian Association under Japanese Colonial Rule and Strategies of Spiritual Education), Kankokugaku no furonteiaa (Frontiers of Korean Studies, (Japanese-language article)

“Mission Vitalisatrice: Tokutomi Soh and Maeil Sinbo during the First Decade of Japan’s Colonial Rule in Korea, 1910-19”

Research

Postdoctoral Fellow, Doshisha University, Department of Sociology, Kyoto, Japan,

Lecturer, University of Texas, Austin, Department of Asian Studies,

Introduction to Japan: Archipelago, State and Culture,

-       Designed syllabus, organized and administered lower division introduction course to Japanese history, 7th c.-present
-       Directed graduate Teaching Assistant

Imperial Japan: 1868-1945,

- Designed syllabus, organized and administered course on modern Japanese history, 1868-1945.
-       Directed graduate Teaching Assistant.

Christianity in Modern Asia,

-       Designed syllabus and administered undergraduate senior seminar on the early modern and modern encounters between Christianity and several Asian countries, including China, Korea, Japan, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Indonesia.

Religion, Culture and History in Modern Japan,

-       Designed syllabus and led graduate seminar examining the intersection between religion and culture in modern Japanese history.
Speaker

Chair, Organizer and Panelist for “Global Christianity and Imperial J

- F. Hilary Conroy Award, Association for Asian Studies.
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Postdoctoral Fellowship.
- Dissertation Write-up Fellowship, Department of History, UC Berkeley.
- Dean’s Normative Time Fellowship, Graduate Division, UC Berkeley.
- IIE Fulbright Research Felllowship to South Korea.
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Short-term Researcher Fellowship.
- Japan Foundation, Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship.
- Foreign Languages and Area Studies Academic Year Fellowship for Korean Language.
- Foreign Languages and Area Studies Summer Fellowship for Korean Language.
- UC Berkeley, Center for Japanese Studies Fellowship.
- Foreign Languages and Area Studies Summer Fellowship for Korean Language.
- Foreign Languages and Areas Studies Academic Year Fellowship for Japanese Language.
- Certificate for Passing First Level of Japanese Language Proficiency Examination.
Associations
- Association for Asian Studies.
- American Historical Association.

Education, Humanities, Law, Library and Museum Studies, Media/Communication, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Sciences

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DPhil, University of Oxford, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
M.Sc. in Social Anthropology (awarded with Distinction), University of Oxford, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Honours Bachelor of Arts in Social Cultural Anthropology (awarded with High Distinction), University College, University of Toronto

Project Manager, Dymaxium Interactive Tools, Inc., Toronto, Canada
Assistant Legal Librarian, Library Service Bureau, Inc., Toronto
Chair, School of Anthropology Joint Consultative Committee,
Editor, Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford,
Society Secretary, Oxford University Anthropology Society

Educational philosophy, History, Literature, Theology/Religion, Comparative Law, General Law, Museology, Journalism, Technical writing, Web content development, Political philosophy, Social philosophy, Social psychology, Anthropology, Cultural and Ethnic Studies, Geography, Political Science, Public policy, Sociology, Urban Studies