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Book Review: Japanese-English Translation – An Advanced Guide by Judy Wakabayashi (Routledge, 2021)

March 31, 2023 By JLD Administrator Leave a Comment

Japanese-to-English is recognized by many as one of the hardest-to-translate major language pairs because of the linguistic and cultural distances between the two languages. Even compared to the other direction, Japanese-to-English translation is more difficult, I think, because … [Read more...]

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ATA 2015: Translating Racially Sensitive Passages and Other Minefields

January 21, 2016 By Nadine Edwards Leave a Comment

ATA 56th Annual Conference Session J1 Thursday, Nov 05, 11:15 AM - 12:15 PMSession Summary bySarah LindholmIn this session, the Japanese Language Division’s 2015 Distinguished Speaker, Juliet Winters Carpenter, used various excerpts from an as-yet-unpublished thirty-page … [Read more...]

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ATA 2015: Challenges of Literary Translation: Finding your Voice

December 2, 2015 By Nadine Edwards Leave a Comment

ATA 56th Annual Conference Session J-4Friday, Nov 06, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PMSession Summary byPatricia PringleJuliet Winters Carpenter shared with us the various types of challenges and choices she faces as she translates Japanese literary works. She gave us some idea of the … [Read more...]

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