Chinese ↔ English : Business & Economics Translator

Accounting, Public Finance, Tax, Environmental Economics, Banking, Finance, Corporate Finance, Institutional economics, Ecological Economics, Insurance, E-Commerce, International Economics, Econometrics, International Trade, Economic History, Labor Economics, Economic Sociology, Macroeconomics, Economics, Managerial Economics, Monetary Economics, Real Estate Economics, Political Economy, Socioeconomics

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Singapore

Association for Investment Management & Research CFA Level III
Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Program
University of Tokyo
Bachelor of Engineering
Japanese Language School
JLPT Level 1
Temasek Junior College
GCE A Level / Top 5%

15 years translation experience includes the following.
Nanomizer

Business proposals, marketing materials, presentations, technical & legal documents, financial statements, press releases, letters, articles, emails, technical, engineering, legal, marketing & other documents, financial statements, press releases, manuals, articles, books, medical records etc.

Sanyo

Technical Information for Rechargeable batteries

Morgan Stanley

HR evaluation forms

Verztec Consulting

Japan Hour - Japanese travel documentary

Mediacorp

He has translated technical, engineering, legal, marketing & other documents, manuals articles etc. Sembcorp Industries

- Business proposals, marketing, materials, presentations, technical & legal documents, letters, articles, emails
Mitsubishi

Car brochure local words Pvt Ltd

- Translating B2B texts and academic works from Japanese to English for a range of clients

Proof-reading and editing English advertising copy and academic manuscripts

SIRVA Corporate Relocation

Senior Relocation Manager

- Provided bespoke relocation support in fluent written and spoken Japanese and English to senior executives at a multinational phone and computer manufacturer
- Worked onsite at the client’s regional HQ to assist with expansion of offices and retail branches into new countries within APAC
- Provided highly tailored departure/destination services, shipping and expense management services for senior executives, as well as managing large-scale group moves of junior retail staff. K2 Corporate Mobility

APAC Relocation Manager
- Provided relocation policy counseling in fluent written and spoken Japanese and English
- Coordinated bespoke international relocations for senior executives, providing a personalized service with emphasis on face-to-face client and assignee support
- Clients included an industry-leading Japanese consumer electronics manufacturer, plus IT and financial services providers

International Assignment Consultant

- Provided relocation policy counseling in fluent written and spoken Japanese and English
- Translated all internal policy documents into Japanese for use with non-English-speaking assignees
- Negotiated between clients, staff and external suppliers to ensure smooth international relocation of assignees, in English and Japanese Pole to Win Europe

Lead QA, Translator and Editor

- Translated Japanese source material into English, proofed and revised other translators’ work and gave editorial guidance to non-English translation teams
- Coordinated five teams of QA testers and translators to localize a major Japanese video game across multiple European markets
- Developed and oversaw the implementation of the QA testing and translation timeline
- Liaised between translators and the development team in Japan to accommodate syntactical variations across different language versions of the game’s code
Department for Business

Correspondence Liaison

- Coordinated between policy officials and the Minister for Competitiveness and Small Business to provide timely written responses to ministerial and public enquiries
PFI Corporation Ltd, Kobe

Team Lead, Interpreter and Book-Keeper

- Interpreted between English-speaking senior staff and Japanese-speaking local employees
- Managed team of ten employees during day-to-day operations at an investment start-up
The City of Niigata, Japan

International Affairs Division, Coordinator for International Relations

- Translated city publications and served as personal interpreter for the mayor of Niigata City and visiting diplomats and dignitaries
- Interpreted for Niigata exporter mission at Intrude Malaysia 2010 in Kuala Lumpur
- Established a competitive ultimate Frisbee club for the city
- Lectured in Japanese on the U.S. housing and financial crisis

Some of his translated research papers/manuscripts are as follows

- Financial intermediaries and monetary economics
- Post Keynesian monetary economics
- Handbook of monetary economics
- International monetary economics
- The Buffer Stock Notion in Monetary Economics
- Rational inattention and monetary economics
- The unfortunate uselessness of most’ state of the art’ academic monetary economics
- Essays in Monetary Economics (Collected Works of Harry Johnson)
- The role of overlapping-generations models in monetary economics
- Money and Value: A Reconsideration of Classical and Neoclassical Monetary Economics
- Inflation, asset prices, and the term structure of interest rates in monetary economics
- Monetary trends in the United States and the United Kingdom: a review from the perspective of new developments in monetary economics
- Chicago, Harvard, and the doctrinal foundations of monetary economics
- The boostrap theory of money: A search-theoretic foundation of monetary economics
- Money, prices and finance in the new monetary economics
- Henry Thornton and the development of classical monetary economics
- Friedman's monetary economics in practice
- On some current issues in monetary economics: an interpretation
- The evolution of money, financial institutions, and monetary economics
- New approaches to monetary economics: proceedings of the Second International Symposium in Economic Theory and Econometrics
- Saving capitalism by making it good: the monetary economics of John R. Commons
- The development of monetary economics: a modern perspective on monetary controversies
- On some recent developments in

University of Tokyo
Japanese Monbusho Scholarship
Japanese Language School
Japanese Monbusho Scholarship

Business Management, Economics, Law

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japan

PhD Foreign Language Instruction, University of Kansas, USA
MA Teaching English as a Second Language, University of Kansas, USA
BA English and American Literature, Waseda University, Japan

Japanese Instructor for BUSINESS & COMMUNITY PROGRAMS at the University of Georgia
Instructor of English, TOEFL Seminar, Tokyo, Japan
Translator at ITP Strategic, California, USA
Translator at Shin International, Kansas, USA
Teaching Assistant in Japanese, University of Kansas, Kansas, USA
Research & Teaching Consultant in English at TS Group, Tokyo, Japan
Columnist for Ryugaku Kenkyu, published by YIC Publishing, Tokyo, Japan
Associate Professor at Nippon Institute of Technology, Saitama, Japan
Lecturer in English, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan

Wrote master's thesis on the difficulties faced by Japanese students in pronunciation of English words and their strategies for dealing with this issue. Wrote a dissertation on the effectiveness of psycholinguistic reading method for Japanese college students

English to Japanese translation
Japanese to English translation

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.

Law, History, Media/Communication, Social Sciences

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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

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

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