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January 6, 2014
Kyoto Journal Reviews Judith Clancy’s Machiya Restaurant Guide
The Kyoto Journal's Michael Lambe has just presented a restaurant guide by Judith Clancy, titled Kyoto Machiya Restaurant Guide: Affordable Dining in Traditional Townhouse Spaces. For the in-depth story of how the book came into being, see the three-part SWET interview with the author, publisher, and photographer here.
The book outlines the Machiya area's many fine dining establishments against the backdrop of the charm... more
December 24, 2013
International Thriller Japantown Receives Warm Welcome
When Barry Lancet launched the first in what he envisioned as a mystery/thriller series exploring the high culture and low underbelly of Japan, he had no idea what to expect. By the first week of publication, Japantown was scheduled for a fourth printing and had been optioned for a TV series by J. J. Abrams’ Bad Robot Productions of
December 4, 2013
December 2013 Issue of Artscape Japan Now Out
Artscape Japan has just announced that their December 2013 issue is now out and can be accessed at http://www.dnp.co.jp/artscape/eng/.
This month's issue features these new articles:
FOCUS Your Portrait: A Tetsumi Kudo Retrospective, by Christopher Stephens
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Revisiting Morimura, Rembrandt, and the Hara Museum, by Lucy Birmingham
HERE/THERE The Ishikawa: Not Your Standard-Issue Prefectural Museum, by Alan Gleason
The PICKS section offers a monthly selection of 20 short translated reviews, by... more
November 29, 2013
Call for Contributions by the Journal of Specialised Translation: For a January 2015 Issue
The Journal of Specialised Translation has recently announced a call for contributions for their next non-thematic issue in January 2015.
The journal is inviting innovative critical contributions dealing with any area or aspect of specialized translation, in particular: Features regarding specialized language; general and practical issues in translation and interpreting; subject field translation issues, i.e., medical, legal, financial, multimedia, localization, etc.;... more
November 19, 2013
William Weaver, writer about translation, passes away
(Photo by Doug Baz/Bard College)
Among writings on translation, its process and practice, William Weaver's essay on "The Process of Translation," included in The Craft of Translation edited by John Biguenet and Rainer Schulte (Chicago University Press), and the lively interview published in The Paris Review (Spring 2002) “The Art of Translation III” are inspiring. What he says applies to any... more
November 17, 2013
Artscape Japan November 2013 Issue Out
The November 2013 issue of Artscape Japan is now up on the Artscape Japan website and can be viewed at:
http://www.dnp.co.jp/artscape/eng/
The next issue will be uploaded on December 2.
This month's issue also features these new articles:
FOCUS
A Few of His Favorite Things: Folk Art that Inspired the Modern Designs of Sori Yanagi, by Susan Rogers Chikuba
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Meditating on Meditation: Komazawa University's Museum of Zen Culture and... more