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2011

April

• Now planning events for the rest of the year

2011

March

• March 27 - SWET Kansai: Publishing the Secret Diaries of a WWII British POW in Japanese

2011

March

• CANCELED! March 24 - SWET Newsletter 2011 Brainstorming and Planning Gathering

2011

February

• February 19 - SWET Kansai: Editing J-to-E Translations for Better Communication

November

• November 27 - SWET Kansai/JAT Kansai Bonenkai

• November 27 - SWET Kansai: Making Your Voice Heard - Independent Publishing Is Not A Last Resort

• November 3 - SWET 30th Anniversary Celebration and Reunion

July

• July 19 - SWET Kansai Summer Party, with Beth Cary and Juliet Winters Carpenter

• July 19 - Beth Cary: Transfixed by Translating, Juliet Winters Carpenter moderator

• July 17 - SWET Summer Party at Kiyosumi Teien

June

• June 18 - Reopening the Mind of Writing about Japan

• June 17 - Rebecca Otowa: Writing from the Crucible of Culture

• June 6 - SWET Kansai: Reopening the Mind of Writing about Japan

May

• May 15 - STET at SWET: Proofreading Basics

April

• April 15 - The Japan Style Sheet 2010: Update and Expansion (with Mini Book Fair)

March

• March 11 - Planning a New Era for the SWET Newsletter

• March 7 - Art Translation

February

• February 16 - Setting up a Translation Company in Japan

January

• January 17 - SWET Kansai: Editing Workshop

• January 16 - SWET 2010 New Year’s Party: SWET Turns Thirty

2009

December

• December 12 - Kansai SWET/JAT Bonenkai

November

• November 10 - Writing and Publishing Fiction and Non-Fiction from Japan

October

• October 28 -Bringing Home Old Kyoto: Author Re-invents Japan in a Pacific Northwest Garden

• October 20 - The “Backstreet Stories”: Portraits of Tokyo from the Inside Out

August

• August 23 - Jiho Sargent Memorial Gathering

July

• July 26 - SWET Summer Party: Walking through History with Sumiko Enbutsu

June

• June 23: Writing News on Japan

May

• May 23 - Behind Cloistered Walls: On Translating the Memoirs of an Imperial Convent Abbess

• May 17 - SWET Kansai: Three poets in Japan

• May 16: Writing Multicultural Families

2008

November

• November 25 - Academic Editing for Publication

• SWET Kansai November: A poet’s prose: the economy and voice of moving

• November 8 - Editing and Rewriting for Scientists and Engineers

June

• June 17 - SWET Editors’ Cafe and Mini Book Fair

May

• May 25 - Contemporary Poetry in Japan and Beyond

February

• February 23 - SWET Resource Forum and Mini Book Fair 2008

• February 3 - Translating and Writing in Japan: A Foreign Reporter’s Experience

January

• January 27 - SWET 2008 New Year’s Party

2007

November

• November 25 - SWET Kansai Bonenkai

• November 25 - SWET Kansai Event: Faith Bach - CANCELLED

• November 17 - Chiba University Editing & Rewriting Workshop

October

• October 14 - SWET Kansai Event: Donald Richie

• October 13 - Japan Writers Conference

September

• SWET Tokyo September Event Details

July

• SWET Tokyo July Event Details

June

• SWET Tokyo June Event Details

• SWET Kansai June Event Details

May

• SWET Tokyo May Event

• SWET Kansai May Event

April

• SWET Writers’ Café and Book Sale

March

• SWET Editors’ Cafe

February

• Resource Forum and Mini Book Fair

2006

November

• November 25 - SWET Kansai Talk and Christmas Party/Bonenkai

November

• November 11 - SWET Café and Mini Book Fair

September

• September 10 - Osaka Sake Brewery Tour and Talk

July

• July 30 - SWET Kansai Pool Party

• July 16 - SWET Summer Party

• July 12 - Workshop: Translation as Writing and Editing

• July 6 - Workshop: Advanced Mark-up Tools for Editors

May

• May 26 - Streamlining Editorial Workflow

April

• April 22 - “Translating Japan”: Anime As Cross-Cultural Interface

February

• February 25 - Wordsmiths Japan: SWET Resource Forum 2006

January

• January 28 - New Year’s Parties (yes, two of them)

2005

December

• December 11 - SWET Kansai Christmas Party/Bonenkai

November

• November 20 - Nineteen Going on Twenty: The Story of Kyoto Journal Magazine

October

• October 22 - 25th Anniversary Lecture and Celebration

• October 22 - SWET Book Fair 2005

July

• July 23 - 2005 Summer Party

June

• June 25 - Editing in Japan: A Workshop

May

• May 28 - Book Translation and Working with Japanese Publishers

March

• March 26 - Wordsmiths Japan: SWET Resource Forum

2005

March

• March 25 - CSR Reports/Sustainability Reporting

2005

February

• February 26 - Writing and Illustrating for Children

January

• January 22 - SWET New Year’s Party: Start of 25th Anniversary Year

2004

December

• December 11 - SWET Kansai Christmas Party/Bonenkai

November

• November 27 - Contemporary Japanese Literature’s International Appeal: Two Perspectives

October

• October 23 - 2004 SWET Book Fair

September

• September 25 - Opportunities in Corporate Japan: PR

July

• July 24 - SWET Summer Garden Party

June

• June 26 - Recent Trends in Contemporary Japanese Literature

• June 19 - Where Are My Readers? A Writer’s Voice from a Closed Country

May

• May 22 - Finding the Story and Telling It Well

April

• April 24 - Research Writing as an Individual Craft and Community Effort

March

• March 27 - Intellectual Exchange: From the Cold War to the 21st Century

February

• February 28 - English Wordsmiths Japan: SWET Open Forum 2004

January

• January 24 - Panel: From Column to Book (followed by the SWET New Year’s Party)

2003

November

• November 22 - Making Dictionaries:  A Panel Discussion

October

• October 25 - Fall 2003 SWET Book Fair

• October 11 - Proofreading: A SWET Professional Skills Workshop

September

• September 27 - Edward Seidensticker: My Kind of Translation

August

• August 3 - Developing a Japanese-English Translation Textbook

July

• July 26 - Double Take: Translating Poetry and Children’s Literature Both Ways

• July 13 - SWET Kansai Pool Party

June

• June 28 - Summer Social Gathering: An Afternoon in Sendagi

May

• May 24 - Perspectives on Teaching Translation: Theory and Practice

April

• The Anatomy of a Document from a Graphic Designer’s Perspective

March

• “SWET Shorts”

• Distilling the Spirit of Place: Writing Yokohama History

February

• Kanji Dictionaries and CJK Lexical Databases

• SWET Steering Committee Meeting

January

• Thirty Years of Technical Writing in Japan

2002

November

• Poetry Reading in Kyoto

October

• SWET Book Fair - 2002

• Publication Rights for Paper and Cyberspace

• Rewriting as Retranslating

• Summer Lecture and Party

• The Invisible Hand: Inventing Newsletters and Other Legerdemain

• Author Lecture by Frank Baldwin

• Retirement Planning Seminar

• SWET Kansai - Using Electronic Dictionaries on the Mac

• SWET Book Fair - 1998

• SWET Kansai Relaunched: Juliet Carpenter Talk

• Manga Lecture

• SWET Book Fair -1999

• The Craft of Editing Arts and crafts books and translated materials

• Writing for Newspapers

• Copywriting: How to do it, how to sell it

• Writing Workshop

• Narration and Script Translation

• Writing with Pictures: A Look at Japanese Documentary Photography

• Peer reviews workshop

• Researching, writing, publishing, and promoting non-fiction books

• Translation 101

• SWET Kansai - Can you check this?

• SWET Kansai - So you want to be a translator?

• SWET Kansai - Increase effectiveness through better use of type, layout, and design

• SWET Book Fair - 2000

• Writing for magazines-the writer/editor relationship

• From Pennies to Profits: Marketing on a Shoestring in the 21st Century

• U.S. Media Coverage of Japan: Biases or Mistranslations

• Technical Writing and Manual Production: Explaining the Unexplainable

• Wordsmithing with High-tech Tools

• The Art of the Interview: Techniques for Different Markets

• Perils and Pleasures of Online Editorship

• Writing Bicultural Novels: Aspects of the Craft of Fiction

• An Insider’s Comments on Publishing in English in Japan

• Hitting a Niche Market

• Online Dictionaries

• Japan’s English-language Periodicals

• Producing the Nikkei Weekly

• Create Your Own Web Site

• Control Your Data: Spreadsheet, Database, and Accounting Software for Editors

• Taming Your E-mail

• Japanese Aesthetics in People Photography

• The Translator’s Cinema

• Working with Other People’s Words

• Quality Issues in Online Education: Status and Impact of Global Web-Based Training

• Unpacking Our Cultural Baggage

• The Future of Print Culture

• Getting Haiku

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