Chinese ↔ English : Humanities & Social Sciences Translator

Education Language, Education Elementary Education, Sinology (Chinese Studies), Secondary Education, Language Acquisition, Higher Education, Contracts, Mastery Learning, Creative Writing, Cooperative Learning, Literature, Bilingual Education, Children's Literature

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New Zealand

University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

Bachelor of Arts with First Class Honours (Japanese)
- Research interests included lexical borrowing, translation studies and pre-modern Japanese language and society

Bachelor of Arts with First Class Honours (Chinese)
- Research interests included Chinese sociolinguistics, lexical borrowing and Classical Chinese

Bachelor of Arts (double major: Japanese and Chinese)

Appen Pty. Ltd., Sydney, Australia

Transcriber
He worked on the Verdant ANZ English project,

China-Hong Kong English School, Zhongshan, Guangdong, China

Translator
He was responsible for providing translating and quality control of all English-language documentation issued by the office.

China Hong Kong English School, Zhongshan, Guangdong, China

Translator
This position provided him with the opportunity to develop cross-cultural communication skills and sensitivity as well as Chinese language skills. He was in charge of language skills for the translation of office documentation as well as interpersonal liaison between local and international staff.

Some of his Japanese translated research papers/manuscripts are as follows
-History, Chinese nationalism and the emerging Sino'Japanese conflict
-Interpreting history in Sino-Japanese relations: a case-study in political decision making
-Recent Japanese Studies of Modern Chinese History
-Obsessions with the Sino-Japanese polarity in Japanese literature
-10 The Sino-Japanese War of 1894-95 and its cultural effects in Japan
-China, Japan and regional leadership in East Asia
-Learning Chinese, turning Chinese: Challenges to becoming sinophone in a globalised world
-Stirring samurai, disapproving dragon: Japan's growing security activity and Sino-Japan relations
-Sino-Japanese relations: China's perspective
-Remembering and Forgetting the War: Elite Mythmaking, Mass Reaction, and Sino-Japanese Relations.
-The security dimension of Sino-Japanese relations: warily watching one another
-Sinophiles and sinophobes in Tokugawa Japan: Politics, classicism, and medicine during the eighteenth century
-Nationalism and economic exchange: Evidence from shocks to sino-japanese relations
-The Sino-Japanese Treaty of 1978: The Senkaku Incident Prelude
-Identity and recognition: remembering and forgetting the post-war in Sino-Japanese relations China-Hong Kong English School, Zhongshan, Guangdong, China

Assistant to the General Principal; Translator

-Provided clerical assistance to the senior management.
-Recruitment and integration of international staff, including communication and payroll duties. China Hong Kong English School, Zhongshan, Guangdong, China

Oral English Teacher, Primary; Translator

-Develops cross-cultural communication skills and sensitivity as well as Chinese language skills. Hagley Community College, Christchurch, New Zealand

Technician, Home Economics Department

-Provided technical assistance to a team of educators, including purchasing and ordering, resource management and liaison with external companies and community groups.
-Behavior management in the classroom when required. University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

Peer Tutor, Te Puna Manawa and Pacific Tutorials programmes

-Provided tutoring and mentorship to firstand second-year university students from indigenous and Pacific Islands backgrounds.
-Provided cross-cultural communication and sensitivity. Department of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education-Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia

Research Assistant

-He provided support to a team of researchers working on a research project, including the use of databases and text-analysis software and writing transcriptions, as well as general clerical duties. Spagalimi's Ltd, Upper Riccarton, Christchurch

Front-of-House Restaurant Staff

-Used client-focused approach to customer care. It also provided me with valuable experience working to tight deadlines and developing strategies to flourish in a fast-paced frontline environment. Wanaka New World Supermarket, Wanaka

Produce Assistant and Assistant Produce Manager

-Produce Manager for a small team of retail staff.
-Trained a number of new staff members, including future managers.
-Display and sale of fresh produce and handling customer service enquiries, as well as liaison with external companies.
-As the only Japanese-speaking member of staff, he was frequently called to assist other departments with customer liaison for the many Japanese visitors to the area.

Royalty on the Run - The Legend of Princes Oke and Woke Reconstructed.New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies.

College of Arts Scholarship
Barbara Mito Reed Award

Disaster Management, Risk Management, Emergency Management, Cultural and Ethnic Studies, International Relations, Policy Studies, Environmental Policy

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japan

PhD in International and Public Affairs, Graduate School of Social Sciences Institute, Hitotsubashi University, Japan
MA in International Development, University of Pittsburgh, USA
MA in Social Sciences, Hitotsubashi University, Japan
BA in Policy Management, Keio University, Japan

Translator, World Vision, Tokyo, Japan
Instructor in International Understanding & Risk Management, Waseda Hoshien, Tokyo, Japan
Academic Translator in Social & Environmental Sciences (including environmental conservation & crisis management), Translation Agency, Tokyo, Japan
Translator in Marketing for Dentsu Inc., Tokyo, Japan

Fulbright Scholar, Japan-United States Educational Commission.
Goldman Sachs Global Leaders Certificate and Award

Business Management, Economics

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japan

Postgraduate Diploma of Teaching, English & ESL methods, University of Melbourne, Australia
MA, International Studies, University of Tokyo, Japan
Diploma, Japanese Language, Keio University, Japan
BA (1st class honors), Japanese and Asian Studies, University of Melbourne, Australia

Victorian Public Service, Graduate Professional Development Program 2010
Japanese Language Proficiency Test Level 1

Japanese & ESL Teacher, St Albans Secondary College, Australia
Graduate Officer, Victorian Public Service Graduate Scheme, Australia
Research Analyst, Sustainable Investment Research Institute, Australia
Japanese to English Translator, Bilingual Group, Japan
English Language Instructor, Thesaurus House Language School, Japan
Research Assistant, Victoria University, Australia
Japanese-English Interpreter, Japan International Cooperation Agency, Japan
Field Researcher, University of Tokyo, Japan

Japanese to English Translation
Japanese to English Interpretation

Departmental Award for Excellence (Master Thesis, University of Tokyo)
Japanese Government Research Scholarship (Monbukagakusho)
Melbourne Abroad Language Scholarship (The Univer-sity of Melbourne)

Victorian Institute of Teaching
International Association for Public Participation

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

Accounting, Energy Economics, 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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Japan

Bachelors of Arts in Political Science, Michigan State University in the U.S.
Bachelors of Arts in Commerce, Meiji University in Tokyo.

10 years translation experience includes the following.
Bloomberg News, a global business and financial news service.

Intern

- Engaging primarily in Japanese-to-English translation of business news in Japan.

English-language reporter

- Translating Japanese-language stories into English as part of daily assignments. Maruni Wood Industry Inc., Hiroshima, Japan.
- Responsible for in-house Japanese-to-English and English-to-Japanese translation, to prepare documents and correspondence regarding a range of issues from intellectual properties, treaty tax benefits to fire safety standards.
Some of his translated research papers/manuscripts are as follows –
- Translation of articles on fundamental directives related to corporation tax.
- Translation of articles on the effect of sales taxes on local sales.
- Translation of papers regarding the role of taxes in income redistribution.
- Translation of articles on excise tax evasion and tax revenue.
- Translation of articles on historical tax collection.
- Translation of articles on the effect of tax incentives on employment across industry sectors.
- Translation of articles on the effect of state-level tax on government revenue and aid to local governments.
- Translation of articles on the effects of tax incentives on investment.
- Translation of articles on local taxes and public services.
Maruni Wood Industry Inc., a wooden furniture maker in Hiroshima, Japan.

Manager of finance and corporate planning.

- Preparing the company’s annual budgets and financial statements.
- Reporting monthly earnings results to banks.
- Responsible for in-house Japanese-to-English and English-to-Japanese translation, to prepare documents and correspondence regarding a range of issues from intellectual properties, treaty tax benefits to fire safety standards.
Zeirishi-hojin PricewaterhouseCoopers, a Japanese tax arm of the global tax consulting group

Manager of Transfer Pricing

Staff of Transfer Pricing

- Providing consulting services on transfer pricing, one of the most focused area of international taxation as it can be used by multinational corporations to reduce their overall tax bills by shifting income from higher to lower tax jurisdictions.
- Preparing documentation for clients, including securities firms, electronics and consumer-goods companies, to support their compliance with transfer pricing rules. Documentation is provided either in Japanese or in English, which is subsequently translated to the other language for submission to tax authorities at home and abroad.
Bloomberg News, a global business and financial news service

English-language reporter

- Covering the foreign exchange market with the focus on the dollar-yen and the euro-dollar.
- Reporting on the Japanese financial policy at a time when the government injected public money into major banks saddled with bad debt and falling share prices.
- Covering asset securitization, through which a pool of illiquid assets, such as bad loans and mortgages, are turned into securities.
- Other areas of coverage included Japanese oil, gas and electricity companies as well as makers of telecommunications equipment.
- Translating Japanese-language news into English, as part of daily assignments.
Bridge News, a global business and financial news service

English-language reporter

- Writing daily market comments on Middle East crude oil traded in Asia, based on interviews with officials at oil majors and refiners in Japan, Singapore and other Asian countries.
- Translating Japanese-language stories into English as part of daily assignments.

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.