Chinese ↔ English : Business & Economics Translator

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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- 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

History, Humanities, Media/Communication, Social Sciences

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MA, International Relations and Asian Politics, The University of Queensland, Australia
BA, International Relations, Deakin University, Australia

Research Assistant and Administrator, Deakin university, Australia
Academic tutor in Asian studies, Deakin University, Australia
Medical Interpreter at International Medical Services, Australia
Technical translator, Nihon Isued, Japan
Corporate translator and executive assistant, Australian Paper
Edited various academic papers in the fields of international relations, political science, Asian studies, sociology, cultural studies, and history

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

Member, Golden Key International Honour Society

Accounting, Banking, Business, Business administration, Corporate Finance, E-Commerce, Economics, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Human resources, International business, Management, Management information systems, Project management, Strategy Technology Management

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United States

MBA, Finance and Policy Studies (Honors), University of Chicago Graduate School of Business
AB, Applied Mathematics, Harvard College

"Investment Banker, Merrill Lynch
Investment Banker, Chase H&Q
Investment Banker, Salomon Brothers"

Computer/Information Sciences

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Bachelor of Economics, WASEDA University School of Political Science and Economics, Japan

Translator and editor of various websites for Microsoft and McAfee
Localization of various promotional videos for Intel and Microsoft
Translator of technical guides for ASCII Corporation, Tokyo
Translator of software manuals for Oracle
Translator of a book on a computing program published by Prentice Hall, Japan
Translator of a book on Flash software published by Friends of ED
Writer of articles for ASCII Monthly and Weekly Magazine, Weekly Yomiuri PC, and Linux Magazine

English to Japanese Translation

Finance, banking, international economics, financial economics, risk management, strategy, international business, management information systems, growth economics, macroeconomics, international trade

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Australia

Graduate Diploma in Banking & Finance, Monash University, Australia.
Graduate Diploma in Japanese Studies, Monash University, Australia.
B.S., Mathematics & Japanese, Monash University, Australia.
Associate of Music Australia, Piano AMEB, Australia.

Director, Finance Group, Australia

Research on the Asian Financial Markets, Japanese to English translations and rewriting of finance related materials.

Senior Manager, Capital Markets, IBJ Australia Bank, Sydney

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 AUS$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.

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.

Chaired seminars presented by the Japanese Ministry of Finance on the Japanese economy and Japanese government bond markets conducted in Hong Kong, New York, Singapore, Boston and Toronto Guest speaker at many international conferences like, The Japan-America Society of the State of Washington Seattle, EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Co-operation (Tokyo), International Conference on Japanese Information in Science, Technology, Education & Commerce (Stockholm) etc.

Noted writer in the Nikkei Newspaper, Japan

Japanese government sponsored Law translation project

Translated finance related Japanese laws and legal commentary into English for this high profile government sponsored project.

Freelance finance translator for various private and government houses in Japan and Australia such as Nikko Citigroup Limited, Non-Japanese Securities House, Elanex, Lingua Franca, Fontaine Limited, Asian Market Access, Mizuho Securities Co. Ltd etc. He has translated documents such as:

Reports for the equity research division.

Monthly report on the Japanese economic and political situation.

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

Legal documents.

Financial statements, corporate profiles and corporate brochures.

Finance-related magazine articles and corporate newsletters (including Top 5 accounting firm)

Newspaper articles from the Nikkei Newspaper and other financial newspapers and magazines.

Confidential credit reports and in-house manuals used for credit assessment by major Japanese financial institutions.

Japanese language research reports for presentation as English language reports to be distributed to worldwide clients

Confidential letters from the President and Managing Director.

Internal credit reports and client company reports used for external market purposes.

Member of the Board of Trustees, The Evergreen School, Shoreline, Washington, US.
Japan Association of Translators, Japan.
Member, Australia Institute of Company Directors, Australia.
Australia- Japan Society of the ACT, Australia.
The Japan-America Society of Washington, US.
Southern Cross Kai, Australia.
The Sydney Institute, Australia.
The Japan Australia New Zealand Society, Inc. Tokyo.
President, Kaisha Society, Tokyo.
Australian and New Zealand Chamber of Commerce in Japan (ANZCCJ), Tokyo.

Finance, Banking, Insurance, Legal, Marketing, Business and Information technology

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United States

M.S., Public Administration, Monterey Institute of International Studies, Monterey, California, U.S.
B.A., International Studies with minor in economics, University of Oregon, Eugene, U.S.

Accounts Manager, Fallon Benefits Group, Georgia, U.S.

Translated all employee benefits related documents (medical, life and ancillary insurances, retirement, wellness, and others) from English to Japanese and Japanese to English.

Japanese legal document translator/reviewer, Nelson Mullin S Riley & Scarborugh, LLP, Atlanta, U.S.

Supported attorneys to identify critical documents for worldwide medical product liability class action involving several countries including Japan.

Researched, identified, and analyzed critical documents through electronic database.

Translated critical documents from Japanese to English to prepare for deposition.

Redacted confidential information in the documents, conducted quality control and prepared the production for those documents.

Japanese translator/reviewer, Alston & Bird LLP, Atlanta, U.S.

Identified critical documents and price fixing scheme on worldwide LCD antitrust class action involving several countries including Japan.

Investigated, identified, and reviewed critical documents through electronic data base, summarized/translated these documents from Japanese to English and reported those to attorneys.

Analyzed information such as corporate organization structure, deponents? history & background, and conspiracy schemes.

Identified redacted words on English version documents.

Marketing Assistant/ office manager, Sompo Japan Insurance Company of America, Atlanta, U.S.

Translated renewal documents, claim report, and statistical data from English to Japanese.

Japanese financial Information Analyst, translator, Mergent Incorporation, Charlotte, North Carolina, U.S. Translated financial and business data for U.S., European, and Japanese companies. Updated and maintained financial database to sell the financial information products in both U.S. and Japan.

Analyzed and translated global companies quarterly earnings report, annual report and other financial documents.

Updated income statement, balance sheet, and statement of cash flow of Japanese companies for financial database.

Financial & Marketing Assistant, NEC Solutions Incorporation, Santa Clara, California, U.S.

Translated customer and sales information, manufacturing and software information, all budget and sales projection information and product manual information.

Interacted with external developers, licensers, and attorneys to support the development and implementation of the business unit?s overall growth strategy.

Translated license, royalty, and product liability agreements.

Hybrid role that combined duties of office manager and financial and marketing assistant in Multimedia Software Group.

Supported marketing, sales and promotion for game softwares.

Chairman Secretary, Epson Research & Development Incorporation, San Jose, California, U.S.

Supported the research, planning and development of joint R&D projects with strategic partners to generate new business in information, biological and nano technologies.

Financial Accountant, Union Bank of California, San Francisco, California, U.S.

Translated variety of financial documents including investment report, quarterly report, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times from English to Japanese for Japanese Expatriates.

Supported executive management in Office of the President /Planning & Coordination Department with a variety of financial tasks, including merger activities and monitoring budget and expenses.

Researched, analyzed and monitored bank acquisition activities in the California market.

Provided a variety of financial analysis support including stock price and annual reporting of information.

Intern, UNICEF East Asia & Pacific Regional Office ( EAPRO), Bangkok, Thailand

Georgia Life & Health Insurance Agent License.
Georgia Property & Casualty Insurance Agent License.