Chinese ↔ English : Humanities & Social Sciences Translator

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

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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.

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

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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

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.

Education, Curriculum and Instruction, Educational Psychology, Educational Reform/Education Policy, Translation, Educational Technology, Educational Leadership, Educational Philosophy, Educational Psychology, Sustainable Education, Vocational Education, Language Education

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United States

- Advanced Japanese Language Certificate from Inter-University Center for Japanese language Studies, Yokohama, Japan.
- Bachelor of Arts, Asian and Middle East Languages and Civilizations from Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.
- “Teaching Critical Thinking Skills” 3-credit graduate course from University of Phoenix, AZ.
- “Teaching Methods: Elementary Language Arts” 3-credit graduate course from University of Phoenix, AZ.
- “Multicultural Children’s Literature” 3-credit graduate course from University of Vermont, Burlington, VT.
- “Laying the Foundation: Building a Deep Understanding of Number” 3-credit graduate course from Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, VT.
- Master of Education, TESL with K-12 ESL certification from The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ.
- Grammar 1: Phrasal Structures course from TESOL.
- Grammar 2: Multiclause Structures course from TESOL.
- “Teaching Critical Thinking Skills” 3-credit graduate course from University of Phoenix, AZ.
- “Teaching Methods: Elementary Language Arts” 3-credit graduate course from University of Phoenix, AZ.
- “Multicultural Children’s Literature” 3-credit graduate course from University of Vermont, Burlington, VT.
- “Laying the Foundation: Building a Deep Understanding of Number” 3-credit graduate course from Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, VT.

Her 9 years of translation experience includes the following.

Translated more than 150,000 characters till date for Ulatus alone.

She has translated papers on the given below topics -

- A study on learning motivations and academic achievements of junior high school students through the implementation of cooperative learning.
- Policy and important points regarding the core curriculum for students.

Translated academic and scientific manuscripts, mainly in the fields of curriculum and instruction, education, student psychology. Performed English editing of translated manuscripts,

according to requested style guidelines. Translate and respond to queries from editors and clients.

Translated research paper on academic ability surveys implemented by Japanese Municipal Boards of Education: Current state and structure of ability survey-based assessment systems.

Translated a manuscript - Advances and challenges in research for resource room instruction: From the viewpoint of Iiritsu katsudo

Published Translations

Takemoto, Novala, Emily, Shueisha English editions.

Miyazawa Kenji, "The Dragon and the Poet,” in Tomo Anthology, ed. Holly Thompson (Stone Bridge Press,).

Masaru Harada and Shizuyo Saito, "Introducing Foreign Children's Literature to Japan: An Interview with Akiko Mieda," Carp Tales (publication of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators),

Blog Editor, Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators-Japan Chapter –

-Solicit articles, review and edit submissions for the Japan chapter’s regional newsletter blog. Translate blog posts from Japanese to English as necessary.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Little Fox Inc., Princeton, NJ

-       Freelance Writer
Develop and write leveled fiction and non-fiction series to promote learning of English as a second language. Early readers introduce sight words and high-frequency words, as well as promote phonological awareness and vocabulary expansion. Higher-level readers are engaging, authentic, comprehensible texts to be used for leisure reading or guided reading instruction.
-       Associate Editor
Develop, copyedit, content edit, proofread, fact check English language learning materials, including fiction, nonfiction, adaptations, classroom activities, assessments, and teacher guides. Manage work of freelance copyeditors and writers. Maintain LF style guide. Prepare manuscripts for publication. Conceptualize and author three original series (one early reading and two middle grades).
Freelance Editor/Writer, Compass Media, South Korea
Write, copyedit, content edit, proofread English language learning materials, including intermediate to advanced grammar and speaking texts, as well as TOEFL preparation books and sample tests.

Blog Editor, Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators-Japan Chapter Solicit articles, review and edit submissions for the Japan chapter’s regional newsletter blog. Translate blog posts from Japanese to English as necessary.

Teaching Experience

English Language Learner Consultant, Fayston Elementary School, Washington West Supervisory District, VT Instruct English language learner in a combined first/second-grade classroom during literacy and math. Work as a content specialist, observing lessons and providing feedback for the teacher on strategies and modifications to help ELL student access classroom content. Help guide instruction that is aligned with WIDA ELD standards and Common Core state standards. Assess ELL student using WIDA MODEL, W-APT, and ACCESS test as necessary.

English Language Learner Teacher, Edmunds Elementary School, Burlington School District, VT

Teach English language learners in grades K-5, coordinate and administer WIDA ACCESS tests, analyze ACCESS data to inform next year’s instruction, facilitate communication between homes and school, serve on Family-School Partnership committee and hiring committee, work with district ELL teachers to write ELL K-5 curriculum that aligns with Common Core State Standards.

Pre-kindergarten Teacher, C’ena School, Rolling Meadows, IL

Team-taught bilingual Japanese/English pre-kindergarten (ages 3-5).

English as a Second Language Instructor, Ivy College and Educational & Environmental Institute, Wheeling, IL

Instructed an intermediate-advanced adult ESL class.

English as a Second Language Seminar Instructor, BIR Training Institute, Chicago, IL

Instructed an intermediate adult ESL seminar on how to boost English language skills by listening to podcasts.

Volunteer ESL Tutor, Howard Area Community Center, Chicago, IL

Tutored newcomer adults in ESL.

Volunteer ESL Tutor, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

Tutored spouses of international graduate students in conversational ESL.

- Her writing has been published in "Awa Naoko in Translation," Society of Writers, Editors, and Translators Newsletter.
- Her writing has been published in “Young Adult Fantasy in Translation,” Society of Writers, Editors, and Translators Newsletter.
- Her writing has been published in “Publishing Children’s Books From and About Japan: An Interview with Kira Lynn,” Carp Tales (publication of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators).
- Her writing has been published in “The Buddhist Monk Who Can’t Resist A Good WWF Smackdown,” Glimpse Quarterly Magazine.
- She has translated Emily, by Takemoto, Novala.
- She has also translated "The Dragon and the Poet," by Kenji Miyazawa,
- Masaru Harada and Shizuyo Saito, "Introducing Foreign Children's Literature to Japan: An Interview with Akiko Mieda,"

- Japanese Language Outstanding Achievement Award from Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.
- Shoyu Club Scholarship Recipient in Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies, Yokohama, Japan.
- Sato Foundation Fellowship Recipient in Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies, Yokohama, 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

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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.

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

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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)