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■ Profile
English-Japanese＆Japanese-English Translator with artisanal sensibility based on 27-year
experience in the trade.
Senior & Legal Translator authorized by National Council of Professional
Translators (Nos.9605071 & 0407081).
Specialized fields: Industry, technology (esp. electromechanics and IT) ,
business in general, legal documents, industry standards, quality assurance,
contract documents, annual reports, ER & CSR, resumes, official documents
(including but not limited to family registers, certificate of live birth,
certificate of baptism, single status certificate, certificates of marriage,
certificate of legal capacity to contract marriage, certificate of death,
notary deed, affidavit, special power of attorney and the like), various
documentary forms for in-house use, etc.
■ Personal Data (As of Dec. 2013) ■
■ Qualifications
Almost 25-year experience in translation field coupled with educational
background specialized in translation.
■ Experiences
◆ 1988 to Present:
Freelance translator specialized in business documents (including various documents for in-house
use, business correspondences, resumes, manuals, etc.), technical documents
(mainly electromechanical, machinery and IT fields), legal documents (regarding
contracts, laws and regulations), and official documents (such as birth
certificate);
In-house translator engaged in general and technical translation (J to E and E to J) required for the products
(for home and industrial use, such as fully automatic and twin-tub washing
machines, horizontal drum washing machine, fully automatic washer-dryer, clothes
dryer, vacuum cleaner, dish washer-dryer, pump, hoist, ink jet printer, etc.)
and operations, such as engineering drawings, specifications, instruction
manuals for test and inspection, work instruction manuals, QC process tables,
operating manuals, business reports and letters, educational materials
for in-house training programs, full text of speech, presentation materials,
various contract documents, defect reports, reports on remedial measures,
PR materials, international and domestic standards including IEC, ISO and
JIS, company standards and regulations, international procurement materials
at one of major electric appliance and industrial equipment corporations
in Japan;
In-house translator worked mainly on such various kinds of translation assignments, in English
– Japanese and vice versa, as correspondences both for private and commercial
purposes, annual and business reports, contracts, manuals for machinery
and computers, advertising and publicity documents, etc. at a translation
agency based in Tokyo;
Part-time translator for news of futures transactions at one of major corporations engaging futures transactions in
■ Recent Accomplishments (Excerpt)
◆ Technology-related field ― Operation manuals for
CT system of Siemens AG and Phillips; X-ray television system; Intruder
detection system; Drawings and Operation manuals for Toshiba’s elevator; NEC’s
Web server; BS standards related to elevators (4 in total); Standards for wind
power generation (2 in total); Materials for nuclear power plants (including reports,
theses, policies and regulations, working instructions, etc.); Online manuals
for NC system; Instruction manual for UPS (uninterruptible power supply
system); and many others.
◆ IT-related field ― System design
documents for AXA’s insurance system; Instruction manual for MainLite computer;
Accenture’s system design documents; Proposal for next-generation system of
Fuji Soft ABC, Inc.; JE translation of websites; Presentation materials
concerning IT; and many others.
◆ Field related to annual and environmental reports,
and CSR ― Environmental report of Ajinomoto 2004 (Chapter 2);
Annual reports 2004 & 2005 for Kokusai Kogyo Co., Ltd.; CSR of Asahi
Breweries, Ltd.; Annual report of Fields Corporation; Part of annual report of
Toyota Tsusho Corporation; Environmental activities of Toshiba; Presentation
materials of environmental activities of Hitachi and Hitachi Chemical groups; On-site
environmental auditing reports; Voluntary Environmental Plan of Toshiba;
Environmental assessment in line with Toshiba's environmental regulations;
Environmental report 2008 of Toshiba Group (3 chapters); and many others.
◆ Business-related
field ― Corporate profile of Tsutsunaka Plastic Industry Co., Ltd.; Speech materials
for EMECS 2003; TV CM material for Nike; English menu for famous yakiniku
(Korean-style barbecue) chain restaurants in Chiba pref.; Presentation
materials in PowerPoint format for many corporations; Prepaid Service Guide
of SOFTBANK MOBILE Corp. (whole booklet); Presentation materials for Baxter
Corporation, and Kyushu Electric Power Co., Inc.; Minutes of the Board
of Directors Meeting; Minutes of Regular General Meeting of Shareholders;
Minutes of a Special Joint Meeting of Directors; Notice of Annual Meeting
of Shareholders; Notice of Special Meeting of Shareholders; Notice of Special
Meeting of Board of Directors; Shareholder’s Waiver of Notice; and many others.
◆ Field related to contract and legal documents ― Many agreements, including but not limited to Letter of Intent, Memorandum,
Distributorship Agreement, Exclusive Distributorship Agreement, Sales Agreement,
Confidentiality Agreement, License Agreement, Joint Venture Agreement,
Manufacturing & Supply Agreement, Merger & Acquisition Agreement,
Shareholders Agreement, Distribution, Sales, Service Agreement, Bailment
Agreement, End User License Agreement, OEM Supply & Purchase Agreement,
Material Transfer Agreement, Software License Agreement, Stock Purchase
Agreement, Patent License Agreement, Know-How License Agreement, Secrecy
Agreement, Trademark License Agreement, Confidential Disclosure Agreement,
Technical Assistance and License Agreement, Global Cross OEM Supply Agreement,
Quality Assurance Agreement, Employment Agreement, Technical Collaboration
Agreement, Residential Tenancy Agreement, Contract of Lease & Acknowledgement,
Contract of Sale for House and other agreement; Companies Law, Certificate
of Incorporation, The International Business Companies Act of Territory
of the British Virgin Islands, The Companies Law of the Cayman Islands,
Memorandum of Association, Certificate of Acknowledgement of Notary Public,
Articles of Incorporation, Articles of Association; Official Documents
such as family registers, annulment of census register, Notary Deed, Deed
of Release, Deed of Assignment, Gift, Testamentary Deed of Will, certificate
of live birth, certificate of baptism, single status certificate, certificates
of marriage, certificate of legal capacity to contract marriage, certificate
of death, notary deed, affidavit, special power of attorney, Diploma, Certificate
of Membership, Certificate of Recognition, Certificate of Shares; and many
others.
■ Education
Tokyo English
State College (abbreviated to and famous for "TES"),
Degree (A.A.)
in Practical English, September 1988
Specialized in Translation
(English into Japanese and vice versa) and other required subjects.
Praised by the president and awarded for having achieved excellent school
results (equivalent to cum laude award).
Already started building my translation career as a part-time translator
while I was studying in the college.
I took the two corresponding courses additionally, as mentioned below,
while in the college.
Also
specialized in electrical engineering and electronics during my three-year high
school days.
■ Credentials and Certificates
Qualified for
the following certificates: Boiler
Engineer 2nd Class in 1979; Driver's License in 1980; Motorcyclist's License in
1980; Eiken (Step Test) 2nd grade in 1983; Senior Translator in 1996 and Legal
Translator in 2004 (recognized and qualified by National Council of
Professional Translators); and so forth.
■ Corresponding Courses
Completed the
following year-long corresponding courses:
Hearing
Completed the
following 6-month long corresponding course:
Legal translation
(from August 2004 to January 2005; Accredited and authorized as Legal
Translator with average score of 94 out of 100 in 14-lesson curriculum by the National Council of Professional Translators).
■ Publication
Microsoft®
Excel for Windows® 95 を使いこなす (Original edition in English: “The COMPLETE IDIOT’S Guide to Excel for
Windows® 95”; I translated all the contents of this book into Japanese
from English.);
My digital
books ― ☆ A
first step toward Japanese translation of English Contracts: Start acquiring basic
skills for English-Japanese tranalation based on “Confidentiality Agreement” ☆
[For PC users (PDF file): http://www.digbook.jp/product_info.php/products_id/16082]
[For smartphone users (PDF file): http://www.digbook.jp/product_info.php/products_id/16083]
and others.
■ Miscellaneous
Possess computer (Toshiba Satellite Pro & FMV-LX50R with 2-MB internal
memory), Printer, Facsimile Terminal Equipment (Panasonic’s KX-PW503),
Modem (built-in modem in LX50R), ADSL line, UPS (uninterruptible power
supply system) and Word Processing Software for both Japanese and English,
along with over 500 Dictionaries and more than 200 reference books, including
Shogakkan Random House English-Japanese Dictionary, Kenkyusha's New E-J
and J-E Dictionaries, Dictionaries of Science and Engineering of the Inter
Press Edition (180 Mango Taiyaku Daijiten; E-J and J-E), Glossary of Technical
Terms in Japanese Industrial Standards (JIS Kogyo Yogo Daijiten), Engineering
Terms 50000, McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms,
Handbook for Technical Translation, Handbook for Electrical and Electronics
Translation, Handbook for Mechanical Translation, Kenkyusha's New Dictionary
of English Collocations, Shogakkan Progressive Dictionaries (E-J and J-E),
Dictionaries of Synonyms (Both in English and Japanese), English-English
Dictionary, Medical Dictionaries, Dictionaries of Economic and Accounting
Terms, Economics/Industrial Terms, Modern Accounting Tax & Law English
Dictionary, Writer’s Guide to the Usage of Economic and Business English,
Dictionary of English Usage for Business and Finance, Glossary of Financial
Terms, Dictionary of English Collocations of Business and Finance Terms,
English-Japanese Dictionary of Trade and Industry, Dictionary of Technical
and Industrial Terms, English-Japanese and Japanese-English Science and
Engineering Dictionaries, Japanese-English Comprehensive Dictionary of Civil Service Terms, Dictionary
of Abbreviations and Truncations, Encyclopedia of Signs and Symbols, New
Practical English Handbook, Dictionaries of Computer Terms, Dictionaries
of Architecture and Building Construction (E-J and J-E), Dictionaries of
Machine Terms (E-J and J-E), Dictionary of Telecommunication, Dictionaries
of Patent and Law Terms (over 40 including Dictionary of Anglo-American
Law), Dictionaries for numerical expressions in English (7 including Dictionary
of Numerical Expressions in English), Dictionary of Technical English Sentence
Structure, Dictionary of Prepositional Collocations in Technical English
and so on.
◆ Corpus:
I have created and complied my own lexicon which consists of several millions
of terms and sentences (glossary consisting of approx. 4.79-million paragraphs)
covering various ranges of fields, including but not limited to practical
and business English, English grammar, a variety of documentary forms for
in-house use, resumes, annual reports, environmental reports, CSR, presentation
materials, documents related to standards and quality assurance, contract
and legal documents, instruction and operation manuals, speech materials,
theses and reports (esp. electricity, electronics, machinery and science),
engineering documents (drawings, quality standards, manufacturing process
management and instructions, inspection instructions, etc.), computer-
and IT-related documents, electricity and electronics, words & phrases
you can never find in ordinary dictionaries (newly-coined expressions,
slang expressions, etc.), marine terms (including terms of shipping business,
ships, fisheries, oceanography and marine species), botanical names (including
academic, English and Japanese names and brief descriptions), and so forth.
This lexicon having a vast amount of electronically available data is,
by extension, often reflected in my accurate and yet speedy performance,
which is and has been leveraging the translation capabilities using my
knowledge and experience as a professional translator.
◆ CD &
Software dictionary:
Approx. 30 dictionaries are available. In particular, my original data
amounting to 140 MB are contained in the user dictionary of PDICW32 (Personal
Dictionary for Win32) as of Dec. 2013. I make it a practice to edit, add
and modify my original lexicon and data on a daily basis.
The PDICW32 I’m
using is compatible with the following dictionaries (including those I have
created and excluding those included with Eijiro Dictionary);
IT Dic. [(mainly JE) 2,935 words],
Electrical Engineering Dic. [(JE &
EJ) About 30,000 words],
Electric Power Dic. [(JE) 3,824 words],
Elevator Dic. [(JE) 5,490 words],
CAD Dic. [(EJ) 12,540 words, (JE) 12,508
words],
CT Dic. [(EJ) 1,107 words, (JE) 1,107
words],
Environmental Dic. [(EJ) 9,481 words,
(JE) 9,619 words],
Legal Dic. [(EJ) 4,354 words, (JE) 4,176
words],
Chemical Component Dic. [(JE & EJ) 3,700
words],
Military Dic. [(mainly EJ) 86,000 words],
Insurance Dic. [(EJ) 3,159 words, (JE) 3,080
words],
Medical Dic. [(EJ) 62,552 words],
Medical items [(EJ/JE) 155,000 items],
Plant terms [(EJ/JE) 20,500 terms],
Automobile items [(EJ/JE) 27,500 items],
Spanish Dic. [(SJ) 74,954 words],
French Dic. [(FJ) 29,777 words],
EJ Dic. [50,307 words],
JE Dic. [110,424 words],
EE Dic. [119,148 words],
EE & Thesaurus Dic. [174,307 words],
Jpn. Encyclopedia [approx. 59,000 items] and others
◆ Translation
memory:
TRADOS Freelance Versions 6.5 & 7, SDL Trados 2007 Freelance, SDL Trados
Studio 2011 & 2014 Freelance Plus and Deja Vu (déjàvu) X Professional
◆ Available types of file
formats:
Word, Excel,
Power Point, HTML, PDF, and many other types of file formats (because Trados’s
TagEditor as well as Deja Vu can handle many kinds of file formats). For
details, see the file formats listed below.
●
TRADOS file with tag (*.txt)
HTML file (*.htm, *.html, *.jsp, *.asp,
*.ascx, *.inc)
SGML
file (*.sgml, *.sgm)
XML and XLIFF files (*.xml, *.xsl, *.xlt)
PageMaker file with tag (*.txt)
QuarkXPress file with tag (*.qsc, *.xtg,
*.ttq, *.tag)
InDesign file with tag (*.txt, *.isc)
InDesign CS2 Interchange (*.inx)
Workbench RTF file (*.rtf)
Java
Properties files (*.properties)
CSV
file (*.csv)
Word, Excel, and
PowerPoint files
SDL TRADOS bilingual file (*.ttx, *.itd,
*.bif) and others.
I hereby
declare that the above is true and correct in every detail.
Dec. 2013
■ Translation Charge
◆ Table of Basic Translation Charges [Negotiable on a case-by-case basis]：
|
|
Eng/Jpn Translation (Based on 140 words in
original Eng./400 letters in Jpn. output) |
Jpn/Eng Translation (Based on 340 letters in
original Jpn./200 words in |
|
Low: |
¥17/word in original ¥2,380/400 letters in Jpn. output |
¥10/letter in original Jpn. or |
|
Medium: |
¥18/word in original ¥2,520/400 letters in Jpn. output |
¥11/letter in original Jpn. or |
|
High: |
¥19/word in original |
¥12/letter in original Jpn. or ¥4,080/200 words in |
|
Highest: |
¥20/word in original |
¥13/letter in original Jpn. or ¥4,420/200 words in |
* For those translation agencies and
individuals who are on a tight budget, the charges are negotiable as the case
may be.
■ Tips on Translation
You can get a lot of helpful hints about translation between English and
Japanese or vice versa from the Tips on Translation page of my website,
provided that you can understand both English and Japanese. (To go to this
page, click Tips on Translation) As of Dec. 2013, 100-plus topics are listed on this page.
■ Link
● I am also listed in the Honyakusha Directory, one of Japan's largest websites for translators in Japan.
● My Profile at ProZcom
● If you can understand Japanese, you can go to My Favorite Links to browse through and gather various pieces of information, which is helpful
information source for translation, daily lives, recipes for Japanese food,
computers, news, internet broadcasting and others.
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