Portuguese ↔ English : Humanities & Social Sciences Translator

Translation, Poetry, Language Education, Asian Studies, Language & Linguistics, Japanology (Japanese Studies), Children's Literature, Ethno linguistics, English Literature, Japanese Literature, Modern Languages, Cultural and Ethnic Studies

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United Kingdom

University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

B.A. Japanese Studies. Hons

Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

Japanese Studies Programme

Kwansei Gakuin University, Nishinomiya, Japan

East Asia Studies Programme

Ilford County High School, London, UK

Ashinaga, Tokyo (Japan)

Translation
Translation at Ashinaga, an NPO that supports the education of disadvantaged students in Japan and Subsaharan Africa. His duties included:
Japanese-English, English-Japanese translation of various documents, such as articles, book chapters, workbooks, survey results, blog posts, letters, and emails;
Japanese-English interpretation during meetings;
Writing and reviewing English-language documents.

Translation Associate, Ashinaga, Japan

Translated various documents related to articles, book chapters, workbooks, survey results, blog posts, letters and emails
Japanese - English interpretation during meetings
Proofreading English-language documents

Communication Associate, Atom Plastic

Responsible for assisting the company to contact prospective distributors in Japan
Translated the product database from Japanese to English to improve their international reach.

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

Translation of Children's Literature as a Function of its Position in the Literary Polysystem
Ways of the illustrator: Visual communication in children's literature
Written for children: An outline of English-language children's literature
Unsettling narratives: Postcolonial readings of children's literature
International companion encyclopedia of children's literature
Children's literature comes of age: toward a new aesthetic
The other: Orientalism, colonialism, and children's literature
Kiddie lit: The cultural construction of children's literature in America
Stories Matter: The Complexity of Cultural Authenticity in Children's Literature.
Artful dodgers: reconceiving the golden age of children's literature
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Nebula Group Ltd

Education Consultant, Writer and Editor

Wrote/edited a large amount of materials for the i-learner online language-learning platform, and material for the company's marketing department
Designed and led English Language workshops/courses
Graded Assignments and liaised with parents to assure company targets were met
Designed and hosted English immersion programmes for schools
River Thames Guide Ltd.

General Assistant

Edited/Proof-read promotional articles
Promotional/sales activities for the website
In Partnership, Inc.
In-house editor and Japanese to English translator.
Wizard Publications, Inc.
Japan-based coordinator of the translation of their guidebooks; translator for their financial contracts.
Meiji Gakuin University
English lecturer in Center for Liberal Arts.
Keio University, Shonan-Fujisawa Campus
lecturer: Speaking/Listening, Reading courses.
EDEC Publishing Company
Writer, assistant editor, and translator for the Progress in English textbook series.

Excelled in all translation related final examinations.
Topped in graduation thesis An assessment of Japan's Premodern Economic Development and the Role of the Osaka Futures Exchange in the Emergence of Consumerism.
Awarded the MEXT scholarship to study in Japan.

Translation, Ethno linguistics, Language Education, Asian Studies, Language & Linguistics, Japanology (Japanese Studies), Cultural Anthropology, Ethno linguistics, Classical Languages, Cultural Anthropology, Modern Languages, Cultural and Ethnic Studies

16

Italy

- Master's Degree in Languages and Civilizations of Asia and Mediterranean Africa Ca' Foscari University, Venice (Italy)
- Bachelor’s Degree in languages, cultures and societies of Asia and Mediterranean Africa, Ca' Foscari University, Venice (It

Ashinaga, Tokyo (Japan)

Translation
- Translation at Ashinaga, an NPO that supports the education of disadvantaged students in Japan and Subsaharan Africa. Her duties included:
- Japanese-English, English-Japanese translation of various documents, such as articles, book chapters, workbooks, survey results, blog posts, letters, and emails;
- Japanese-English interpretation during meetings;
- Writing and reviewing English-language documents.

Translation Intern, Ashinaga, Japan

- Translated various documents related to articles, book chapters, workbooks, survey results, blog posts, letters and emails
- Japanese – English interpretation during meetings
- Proofreading English-language documents

Communication & Marketing Intern, Atom Plastic, Italy

- Responsible for assisting the company to contact prospective distributors in Japan
- Translated the product database from Japanese to English to improve their international reach.

Japanese Language Tutor, Ca' Foscari University, Italy

- Assisted university students in translation of texts from classical and modern Japanese.

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

- Handbook of methods in cultural anthropology
- Social and cultural anthropology: The key concepts
- Reshaping Anthropology
- Directions in the anthropology of contemporary Japan
- Dreamwork: Cell phone novelists, labor, and politics in contemporary Japan
- Directions in the anthropology of contemporary Japan
- The imperial past of anthropology in Japan
- A companion to cognitive anthropology
- Japan and national anthropology: a critique
- Why Japanese anthropology is ignored beyond Japan
- Waiting for wolves in Japan: an anthropological study of people-wildlife relations
- A Companion to the Anthropology of Japan
- The 'World System'of Anthropology: Japan and Asia in the Global Community of Anthropologists
- Becoming Brazilian to be Japanese: Emigrant assimilation, cultural anthropology, and national identity
- The ambivalent self of the contemporary Japanese
- Race and reflexivity: The black other in contemporary Japanese mass culture
- Anthropology in Japan: historical review and modern trends
- “Who am I?” The cultural psychology of the conceptual self
- The modern history of Japanese studies on the San hunter-gatherers
- Introduction: The contribution of social anthropology to Japanese studies
- Asian anthropology
- Visual anthropology and multivocal ethnography: A dialogical approach to Japanese preschool class size
- The contribution of social anthropology to Japanese studies
- Ecology and communication in egalitarian societies: Japanese studies of the cultural anthropology of southern Africa
- Description and comparison in cultural anthropology
- Encyclopedia of social and cultural anthropology
- Invitation to social and cultural anthropology
- Frontiers of cultural anthropology: social organization
- Cultural anthropology and social psychiatry
- Social anthropology and the method of controlled comparison

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Atom Plastic, Bassano del Grappa (Italy)

Communication & Marketing Intern
- Internship at a company that imports collectible art toys from East Asia to Italy. She assisted the company in contacting prospective distributors in Japan and translated their product database into English to improve their international reach.

Ca' Foscari University, Venice (Italy)

Japanese Language Tutor
- She assisted University students in the translation of texts from classical and modern Japanese to Italian.

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

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japan

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

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

10

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

Art Education, Poetry, Art History, Theater, Brochures, Letters, Magazines, World History, Comparative Literature, World Literature, Creative Writing, Fine Arts, Cultural History, International Relations, Cultural Studies, Japanese Literature, Drawing and Painting, Japanology (Japanese Studies), English Literature, Literary Criticism, Environmental Studies (Others), Literature, Non-governmental Organization (NGO) Administration, Mythology and Folklore

15

Japan

Behavior Analyst Certification Board.

Obtained the credential of Board Certified Behavior Analyst

University of Massachusetts, Lowell

Faculty of Graduate Studies.

- Graduate Certificate program in Behavior Intervention for Autism (5 BACB-approved course work towards BCBA certification)
Simon Fraser University. British Columbia, Canada.

Faculty of Education. (Supervised by Dr. Carolyn B. Kenny, Aboriginal Education)

- Post-Doctoral fellow
University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

Doctor of Philosophy. Interdisciplinary (Law, Anthropology/Linguistics, Asian Studies, and Faculty of medicine (Psychiatry)),

- The Ainu of Tsugaru: Indigenous History and Shamanism of Northern Japan. The study looked at culture-specific aspects of disability or “culture specific syndrome,” that characterize identification and nurturing of gifted but socially-outcast individuals known as “shaman.”

Master of Arts. Interdisciplinary Studies.

- Talking through text: oral and literal interface in Japanese storytelling, Rakugo. (A sociolinguistic study on orality and literacy).
University of Toronto.

Bachelor of Arts. Linguistics.

Certificate in Teaching English as a Second language.

15 years translation and interpretation experience includes the following.

Legal interpreter various levels of courts in British Columbia, Canada.

National Research Council of Canada on forestry technology.

Translation of a nonfiction literature on Fukushima nuclear accident from Japanese into English.

He has also completed several government translation projects for many years.

Some of his translated research papers/manuscripts are as follows –
- Evaluation of a psychic phenomenon during human development using the sensitivity mucus model.
- Analysis of discourse and narrative ethics as clinical ethics methodologies.
- Possession and employment of tissue samples for research.
- The perception of sports: scope and depth.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Support Group of Greater Vancouver Japanese Parents of Children with Autism and other special needs (A subgroup of the Canada -Japan Healthcare Society)

Interim Vice President

Multiple Alliance of Behavior Analysts

Official Special Interest Group of Applied Behavior Analysis International

ABA advisor

Consultant

- He taught social skills programs in Japanese and/or English for school-aged children diagnosed with ASD and related developmental delay, together with typically developing peers.
- He has 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.
Laurel Behavior Support Service

Behavior consultant for community service organization possibilities.

- Working for Laurel allowed him to gain experience-helping families with children with ASD/PDD as well as immigrant families with ESL background who need culturally sensitive delivery of consultation service and intervention.
- He was on the RASP list category “B” under the supervision of William Kent, MA, BCBA.
- He provided consultation to Japanese-speaking families which required bilingual support for the intervention and assessment.
BACB

Field work

- He was supervised by Dr. Francine Baffa EdD BCBA-D and Dr. Robyn Catagnus EdD BCBA-D, He continues to receive feedback and mentorship from them today.
Peer-Net

Founding member

- BC’s comprehensive Japanese language crisis help network.
- He has worked in the last 10 years with Japanese-speaking medical doctors, clinical counselors, social workers, teachers, SLPs, behavior consultants, and certified medical interpreters/ translators to facilitate autism-related support network for children and their families in BC.
Canadian International College and Arbutus College.

Language teacher

- He taught interpretation and translation study.

He is an awards-winning author, in the following categories

- Fictions
- Nonfictions
- Poetry

He regularly publishes scholarly articles in peer-reviewed journals and literature, in Japanese and English.

His publications encompass the wide range of scholarly interest and work such as follows,

- History
- Anthropology
- Asian studies
- Indigenous studies
- Socio-linguistics
- Applied behavior analysis

The Canada Japan Literary Award, from Canada Council for the Arts.
- English Book Project.
Proposed creative non-fiction based on his doctoral research Aboriginal People of Japan. Bringing Home a Dragon (Japanese version is published in serial in Fraser Journal Monthly, Fraser Publishing, Coquitlam, BC).
- Japan Fantasy Novel Prize
- Short-listed
- Earlier manuscript for Laila and The Green broom
- New Face Award.
- Japan Modern Poets Anthology Award.
- Gingashi-techo.
- Osaka for a poem “Hiroshima nevermore, Peace forever.”
- Kodansha Children’s Literature Award.

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

9

Japan

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.