Chinese ↔ English : Humanities & Social Sciences Translator

Disaster Management, Disaster Research, Diplomatic History, Disaster Nursing, History of Economics, Urban Studies, World History, History of Religion, Language Education, Anthropology, Theology, Cultural History

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Japan

Harvard University Cambridge, MA

M.A., Middle Eastern Studies

- Thesis: How Terrorism Endures: Factors that affected the longevity of the Kurdistan workers’ party (PKK)
Brown University Providence, RI

B.A., International Relations, Global Security Languages

- Japanese, Arabic, Farsi, French.

Translation experience includes the following.

Freelance Translator with the experience of translating documents in the field of history, urban studies, and social sciences.

Translation of history and business-related documents, such as email correspondences and in-house documents, CSR-related presentations and documents, corporate brochures, etc.

Translation of books, most notable being one about a critical history of European cinema.

Translation of application guidebooks and information of schools for foreign students for various universities including Harvard University.

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

- Coping with catastrophe: A handbook of disaster management.
- Stochastic optimization of medical supply location and distribution in disaster management
- Crisis and disaster management for tourism
- Incident management systems in disaster management
- Disaster management: findings from a systematic review
- Towards a destination tourism disaster management framework: Long-term lessons from a forest fire disaster
- Advances in multi-agency disaster management: Key elements in disaster research
- The Tokyo subway sarin attack: disaster management, Part 1: Community emergency response
- Design challenges for an integrated disaster management communication and information system
- Community-based disaster management in the Philippines: Making a difference in people's lives
- Improving disaster management: the role of IT in mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery
- Disaster risk management and vulnerability reduction: Protecting the poor
- Investing in disaster management capabilities versus pre-positioning inventory: A new approach to disaster preparedness
- Information technology and emergency management: preparedness and planning in US states
- Linking tourism into emergency management structures to enhance disaster risk reduction
- Framework for integrating indigenous and scientific knowledge for disaster risk reduction
- Disaster management: International lessons in risk reduction, response and recovery
- Reframing coordination challenges for public-private partnerships in disaster preparedness
- Enhancing disaster management by mapping disaster proneness and preparedness
- Integrating disaster preparedness and resilience: a complex approach using System of Systems
- Community-based disaster risk management (CBDRM) and providing a model for Iran
- Community based disaster preparedness: Need for a standardized training module
- Distribution and Application of Community-based Disaster Risk Information
- Mainstreaming community-based disaster risk management in local development planning
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Terrorism and Insurgency Research Unit (TIRU), Thomson Reuters Singapore, Singapore

Middle East Research Analyst

- Conducted open source intelligence research in English and Arabic to assess political risks posed by individuals and entities relating to terrorism, insurgency, and security issues in the Middle East.
- Proposed and executed research projects of interest to TIRU, including: tracking Gulf-based financiers of extremist rebel groups in Syria, assessing risk information of Muslim Brotherhood members in Egypt, and mapping out the militias and tribal groups in Libya.
- Assisted in the cyber terrorism project by monitoring and profiling relevant entities and individuals.
Institute for Inclusive Security, Hunt Alternatives Fund Cambridge, MA

Spring Term Intern

- Conducted research and drafted policy brief on women’s added value in the security sector.
- Assisted with identification of and contact with women leaders from the Middle East region.
- Translated documents from Arabic to English.
INTERPOL Washington, U.S. Department of Justice Washington, DC

Counterterrorism Division (CTD) Intern

- Performed intelligence and link analysis for CTD projects, working with a variety of government databases; worked extensively with i2 software, including ibase and Analyst's Notebook.
- Wrote detailed reports and briefed division members on various CTD issues, including: analysis of specific incidents, analysis of wanted individuals, analysis of terrorist networks and activity trends.
- Facilitated multi-agency counterterrorism collaboration by responding to requests for information (ROIs) from the FBI, Naval Criminal Investigative Service, and others of the military and intelligence community; conducted necessary analysis and drafted ROI responses with minimal supervision.
Oxfam, North America Headquarters Boston, MA

Private Sector Division Research Intern

- Provided in-depth research and analysis support for a wide range of projects, such as one that explored new business models, public-private initiatives, and market-based approaches for poverty reduction.
Rudaw Media Company Erbil, Kurdistan, Iraq

Correspondent

- Wrote articles on politics and security in Iraq and Kurdistan.
- Interviewed Kurdish and Iraqi MPs, government officials, senior party officials, and activists.
Office of President William J. Clinton New York, NY

Foreign Policy Researcher

- Prepared briefing documents in support of the President’s travels and meetings with foreign dignitaries.
- Materials produced included detailed country briefings, press overviews, head of state meeting briefings, and topic-related reports submitted to the President and/or distributed internally.
Human Security Association New York, NY

Research & Events Coordinator

- Organized charity event for Vietnamese children afflict

Cultural History, Linguistics, Diplomatic History, Literature, History of Economics, Urban Studies, World History, History of Religion, Language Education, Anthropology, Theology, Cultural History

15

Japan

- PhD in Modern Japanese History from University of California, Berkeley.
Christian Culture and Military Rule: Assimilation and its Limits during the First Decade of Japan’s Colonial Rule in Korea, 1910-1919.
Examination Fields: Modern Japan, Colonial Studies, Historical Sociology.
- BA in Major: East Asian Languages and Cultures Indiana University at Bloomington.
- Visiting Scholar in Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea.
- Visiting Scholar in University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
- Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies, Yokohama.

9 years translation experience includes the following.

Translation of history and business-related documents, such as email correspondences and in-house documents, CSR-related presentations and documents, corporate brochures, etc.

Translation of books, most notable being one about a cultural history of Japanese cinema.

Translation of application guidebooks and information of schools for foreign students for various universities including Takushoku University and Tsukuba University.

Some of his translated papers/manuscripts are as follows –

- Meaning of kagezen and osonae in the literary imagination. -       Handicrafts as occupations for women in local communities. -       Japanese cultural scripts. -       Foreign nursing candidates and bilateral economic partnership agreements. -       Lecture and panel discussion of supply and demand in global energy. -       Social capital of welfare states and its significance for health of the population. -       Critical factors influencing customer satisfaction regarding e-government services.
Lecturer, University of California, San Diego, Department of History,

Historiographies of the State in Twentieth Century Japan.

Designed syllabus and led graduate seminar on the state in twentieth century Japan.

East Asia and the West, 1911-2010

Designed syllabus, organized and administered course for large survey course covering the twentieth century histories of China, Japan and Korea.

Directed four graduate Teaching Assistants.

East Asia and the West, 1279-1911,

Designed syllabus for large undergraduate survey course covering the histories of China, Japan and Korea between the Mongol invasions and the emergence of western imperialism.

Administered course and directed four graduate Teaching Assistants.

Society and Culture of Twentieth Century Japan: Youth in Modern Japanese History

Designed syllabus, organized and administered course for large upper division course on the experience of youth in modern Japanese history, 1868-2011.

Directed two graduate Teaching Assistants.

History of Japan: Mid-Nineteenth Century to the U.S. Occupation,

Designed syllabus, organized and administered course for large upper division course on modern Japanese history, 1868-1945.

Directed two graduate Teaching Assistants.

The Meiji Period in Japan as Historiography

Designed syllabus and led graduate seminar on the historiographical uses of Japan’s Meiji period (1868-1912) as a metaphor for Japanese modernity.

Lecturer, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Department of History,

Christianity in East Asia.

Conducted undergraduate seminar examining how Christianity has shaped the modern and early modern histories of Japan, Korea and China.

Redesigned syllabus as an upper-division lecture course for the spring session.

Modern East Asian History- from 1600 to the present,

Designed course syllabus, organized and administered course.

Directed graduate Teaching Assistant.

His selected publications are as follows –

Christian Culture and Military Rule: Assimilation and its Limits during the First Decade of Japan’s Colonial Rule in Korea, 1910-19. Ph.D. dissertation. University of California, Berkeley.

“Constructing the Divine Nation: Empire and Providence in the Thought of Ebina Danj,” in Social Science Japan.

“Nihon teikoku no shihaika ni okeru ch'sen kirisutoky seinenkai to seishinteki kyiku no senryaku” (The Korean Young Men’s Christian Association under Japanese Colonial Rule and Strategies of Spiritual Education), Kankokugaku no furonteiaa (Frontiers of Korean Studies, (Japanese-language article)

“Mission Vitalisatrice: Tokutomi Soh and Maeil Sinbo during the First Decade of Japan’s Colonial Rule in Korea, 1910-19”

Research

Postdoctoral Fellow, Doshisha University, Department of Sociology, Kyoto, Japan,

Lecturer, University of Texas, Austin, Department of Asian Studies,

Introduction to Japan: Archipelago, State and Culture,

-       Designed syllabus, organized and administered lower division introduction course to Japanese history, 7th c.-present
-       Directed graduate Teaching Assistant

Imperial Japan: 1868-1945,

- Designed syllabus, organized and administered course on modern Japanese history, 1868-1945.
-       Directed graduate Teaching Assistant.

Christianity in Modern Asia,

-       Designed syllabus and administered undergraduate senior seminar on the early modern and modern encounters between Christianity and several Asian countries, including China, Korea, Japan, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Indonesia.

Religion, Culture and History in Modern Japan,

-       Designed syllabus and led graduate seminar examining the intersection between religion and culture in modern Japanese history.
Speaker

Chair, Organizer and Panelist for “Global Christianity and Imperial J

- F. Hilary Conroy Award, Association for Asian Studies.
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Postdoctoral Fellowship.
- Dissertation Write-up Fellowship, Department of History, UC Berkeley.
- Dean’s Normative Time Fellowship, Graduate Division, UC Berkeley.
- IIE Fulbright Research Felllowship to South Korea.
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Short-term Researcher Fellowship.
- Japan Foundation, Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship.
- Foreign Languages and Area Studies Academic Year Fellowship for Korean Language.
- Foreign Languages and Area Studies Summer Fellowship for Korean Language.
- UC Berkeley, Center for Japanese Studies Fellowship.
- Foreign Languages and Area Studies Summer Fellowship for Korean Language.
- Foreign Languages and Areas Studies Academic Year Fellowship for Japanese Language.
- Certificate for Passing First Level of Japanese Language Proficiency Examination.
Associations
- Association for Asian Studies.
- American Historical Association.

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)

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.

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

Neurology, Family Nursing, Psychiatry, Geriatric Nursing, Palliative nursing, Psychiatry, Alternative Medicine, Pediatric Nursing, Medical Education, Perioperative Nursing, Geriatrics & Gerontology, Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing

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Japan

- Ph.D. in Psychology from Osaka City University - Osaka, Japan
- M.A. in Pedagogy from Osaka City University - Osaka, Japan
- B.A. in Pedagogy from Osaka City University - Osaka, Japan

Freelance translator with experience of translating various papers in the fields of neurology, psychiatry, and nursing.

She is an independent translator for multiple translation companies across the globe.

She is specialized in translating medical research papers, articles, website content, internal documents, alternative medicine health promotion book.

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

- Neuroanatomy: text and atlas
- Neuroanatomy of autism
- Neuroanatomy of memory
- Carigie's Neuroanatomy of the Rat
- A functional neuroanatomy of hallucinations in schizophrenia
- Correlative neuroanatomy
- The functional neuroanatomy of emotion and affective style
- Computational neuroanatomy of speech production
- Backwardness of human neuroanatomy.
- Clinical neuroanatomy and related neuroscience
- Tools for neuroanatomy and neurogenetics in Drosophila
- The functional neuroanatomy of episodic memory
- The functional neuroanatomy of autobiographical memory: a meta-analysis
- Neuroanatomy of the primate amygdala.
- The mammalian auditory pathway: neuroanatomy
- Functional neuroimaging and the neuroanatomy of obsessive-compulsive disorder
- The neuroanatomy of depression.
- Neurophysiology and functional neuroanatomy of pain perception
- The neuroanatomy of general intelligence: sex matters
- Functional neuroanatomy of hypnotic state
- Neuroanatomy E-book: an illustrated colour text
- Functional neuroanatomy of hypnotic state
- Neuroanatomy and pathology of sporadic Parkinson's disease
- Functional neuroanatomy of aversion and its anticipation
- On the functional neuroanatomy of intrinsic and phasic alertness

She has translated manuscripts, reports, internal communications and documents for medical equipment manufacturer websites, Pharmaceutical manufacturers, Biomedical industry market, International organization and International medical conference

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Dalhousie University Halifax, Canada

Postdoctoral fellow (Neuroscience/Psychology Department)

Mitsubishi-Kasei Institute of life sciences

Postdoctoral fellow (Physiological Psychology Department)

Neopharma Japan Co., Ltd. Tokyo

Medical Writer

- Reviewed, revised and wrote the Investigator’s Brochure and clinical trial protocols in English.
SBI Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.

Project Manager

- Managed the investigator initiated clinical trials in mitochondrial disease in Japan.
- Monitored and reviewed non-clinical studies conducted by CRO in USA as a study monitor.
- Reviewed the non-clinical study reports.
Dainippon-Sumitomo Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.

Product Manager

- Promoted the new (just approved) medical products as a product manager.
- Managed non-clinical pharmacological studies of new drug compounds, including English study reports and Investigator’s Brochure.
- Contributed to the licensing-out the compounds to Mega Pharmaceutical companies as the pharmacologist.
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
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
- Management of project schedules