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USA

MA, Conference Interpretation (English & Japanese), Monterey Institute of International Studies, Canada
MA, Transpersonal Psychology, John F. Kennedy University, Canada
BA, French Literature, Gakushuin University, Japan

- Washington State Court Registered Interpreter (Japanese)
- Washington State Authorized Medical Interpreter (Japanese)
- English/Japanese Conference Interpreter Course, Japan
- Korean Language Course, Yonsei University, Korea
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- Translator/Interpreter, Nihon PTC, Japan
- Translator/Interpreter, Fujitsu Corporation, Japan
- Translator/Interpreter/Project Manager, I-Ware, Japan
- English Conversation Teacher, ECC, Japan

- English to Japanese Translation
- Japanese to English Translation
- English to Japanese Interpretation
- Japanese to English Interpretation
- Korean to Japanese Translation

NOTIS (Northwest Translators & Interpreters Society)

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

Anthropology, Area Studies, Curriculum and Instruction, Education, Geography, History, Humanities, Language & Linguistics, Literature, Media/Communication, Political Science, Psychology, Social Sciences

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japan

MA, Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, USA
BA, International Relations, Brown University, USA

Foreign Policy Researcher, Office of President Bill Clinton, USA Middle East Research Analyst, Thomson Reuters, Singapore Counterterrorism Division (CTD) Intern, INTERPOL – U.S. Department of Justice, USA Correspondent, Rudaw Media Company, Iraq Quality Assurance Director, Spark Dojo, Japan

Japanese to English Translation
English to Japanese Translation

International Relations, Politics, News/Media, Linguistics,
US/Regional/Global History, Middle East

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

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.

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