Chinese ↔ English : Humanities & Social Sciences Translator

Law, Social Sciences

13

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

Music, Musical Instruments, Fine Arts, Music History, Film studies, Digital Art, Action painting, Abstraction, Abstract Expressionism, Aesthetic, Angular, Architecture, Artifice, Arts and Crafts movement, Assemblage, Automatism, Baroque, Calligraphy, Art Conservation, Art education

12

United States

Manhattan School of Music

Degree: Masters of Music

- Concentration: Piano Performance with Nina Svetlanova
- Relevant Courses: Piano Pedagogy with Dr. Marjean Olson
- Relevant Courses: Music Theory with Dr. Nils Vigeland

Manhattan School of Music

Degree: Bachelors of Music

- Concentration: Piano performance with Solomon Mikowsky
- Relevant Courses: Piano Pedagogy with Dr. Marjean Olson

Toho School Music

High School Diploma

- Piano performance with Yoriko Kojima
- Music Theory with Nobuyoshi Iinuma

12 years translation experience includes the following.

Collaboration with poet, Ezequiel Zaidenwerg for American Poetry Anthology.

Translation work for Angel’s Share Inc.

Assistance research work for Zen-on Music Publishing for Ravel Oeuvres Completès Pour Piano.

Some of his translated papers are as follows –

- Music training improves verbal memory
- Communication, music, and speech about music
- Performance analysis of root-MUSIC
- The social psychology of music.
- Community music therapy
- The rhythmic structure of music
- Music, gender, education
- Explaining music: Essays and explorations
- The importance of music to adolescents
- Emotions in strong experiences with music.
- Music and imagination
- Emotional expression in music.
Felician College

Music Department, Adjunct Professor

- Teach private piano lessons
- Preparing private students for solo recitals, accompanying concerts, auditions, and juries
- Build appropriate repertoire based on each student’s abilities and needs
- Develop technique plan fitted for each individual student
- Develop their technical, theoretical, and historical knowledge of music
- Build curriculum for Basic Piano II group class
- Teaching Basic Piano II class, a group class of individuals with variety of levels in piano skills
Beth Elohim after School Program

Instructor, piano

- Teach private classes for ages 5 to 13, for 15-20 students a trimester
- Organize one to two concerts per year
- Setting of curriculum for each student
- Preparing students towards recitals, school concert events, and auditions
- Hold parent-teacher conferences
Yuko Suzuki Piano Studio

Founder

- All levels, from ages 4 to 83, for 8-15 students a year
- Preparation ranging from solo recitals, auditions, school shows, and coaching prize-winning students for regional competitions
- Setting up curriculum for each individual students, with a goal of heightening of musical abilities, confidence, and poise in performance situation
- Organizing of two concerts a year, setting of itinerary, securing of location, preparation of students, and organizing of reception party
Manhattan School of Music Pre-college Division

Substitute instructor, chamber ensemble

Voluntary activities

WHCAP, a non-profit project for Arts Empowerment in Washington Heights

- Helping set up and organization of public events
Volunteer work for The Dome Project
- Assisting of completion of art installation

Performance and Awards
- Solo recital at National Opera Association of America.
- Various recitals and auditions as accompanist.
- Concentration on low-brass music, of about 25 a year.
- Solo Recital at Steinway Hall.
- Solo Recital at the Alliance Francaise.
- Performance at New York Historical Society.
- Southern Youth Music Festival.
- Young Artist Division, First Place.
- YKAA International Piano competition.

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

12

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

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

5

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

Education, academia, cultural anthropology, social anthropology, medical anthropology, medicine, bioethics, gender studies, cultural studies, international cooperation, travel, marketing, website

Italy

MA in Languages, Cultures, and Societies of Asia and Mediterranean Africa (Japan Curriculum), Ca Foscari University

Overseas program at Kobe University. Master's thesis in social anthropology: Nagashima Aiseien from Reclusion to Remembrance. Ethnography of a Hansen's Disease Sanatorium in Japan

Japanese-English, Italian-English, and English-Italian translation
CAT tools (Trados, Memsource, Lokalise, Phrase, Duda)
Translators without Borders
Japanese language and culture, anthropology, international cooperation

IELTS Academic grade 8.5, JLPT N1

Nursing, Medical Education, Geriatric nursing, Pediatric nursing, Home health nursing, Clinical Medicine, Palliative nursing, Perioperative nursing, Psychiatric and mental health nursing, Family nursing, Clinical Trial, General medicine

15

Cananda

- PhD in Philosophy at the University of Tokyo
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Research Fellow
- PhD Course in Philosophy at the University of Tokyo
- Master of Arts in Philosophy at the University of Tokyo
- Bache

Translated academic papers in the fields of medical education, medicine, nursing and clinical trials. Mainly: protocols, medical journals, questionnaires for patients and for doctors, package inserts, case reports, brochures, installation manuals, user manuals, etc.

Freelancer Translator-

- Translated medical article on medical effects of Fukushima fallout-
- Translated earthquake memorial radiation ecologies website for the University of Montreal

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

- Feedback in clinical medical education
- Global health in medical education: a call for more training and opportunities
- Internet-based medical education: a realist review of what works, for whom and in what circumstances
- Cognitive load theory: implications for medical education
- Effects of continuing medical education on improving physician clinical care and patient health: a review of systematic reviews
- An in-depth investigation into causes of prescribing errors by foundation trainees in relation to their medical education
- Faculty development, teacher training and teacher accreditation in medical education: twenty years from now
- Physiology and body functions teaching by nurse educators.
- Recent Graduate Interview Results on the Public Health Nurse Curriculum.
- Effects of a medical safety ethics education program on newly graduated nurses.
- Elucidating learning strategies in nursing skills acquisition development of a scale and examination of related factors.
Eisai Pharmaceutical Corporation

In-house translator

- Translation of reports, material for presentations and others from Japanese to English.
- Translation of Web materials concerning FDA and EMEA notices from English to Japanese.
Boston Scientific Japan Corporation

In-house translator and editor

- Translation of materials created by US head office, i.e. Clinical study reports, Case reports, etc.
- Checking translations done by outside translation vendors
- Editing documents for application for approval
Tyco Healthcare Japan

In-house translator

- Translation of package inserts (instructions for use) and instruction manuals attached to medical devices
- DTPs using MS word, Adobe FrameMaker, Photoshop, Illustrator Management of project schedules
- Editing
- Filing
International Medical Information Center

Translation coordinator and in-house translator

- Translating “Abstract” of medical journals for JAPIC database
- Arrange translation projects and assign jobs to outside translators
- Checking translations from outside translators
Hogan & Hartson LLP, Tokyo, Japan

In-House Translator & Interpreter,

- Translation: Discovery phase of major Japanese pharmaceutical company’s litigation. Patents, research notes, articles and other documents related to invention, production, animal and clinical testing notes and analyses, tablet coating and release studies, commercialization; Legal documents: initial patent application, related patents, past oppositions and negotiations -Interpretation: Video, telephone and office conferences between Tokyo and New York office attorneys and clients

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

University of Tokyo

Professor - Department of Philosophy

- Delivered lectures in this University

Membership:

- Medical Interpreters & Translators Association

Won the fourth prize at “The Annual JAT Contest for New and Aspiring Translators” (Japan Association of Translators)