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WayToJapan has moved (yes, again)

A New Year, a new office! After three years in Tokyo, four years in the Netherlands (Breda and The Hague) and three years in London, I am delighted to announce that WayToJapan has come back to Scotland.

JSA Launches Translator Registration Scheme

Earlier this year, the Japanese Standards Association — the custodian of the Japanese Industrial Standards or JIS — caused something of a stir in the translation community when it announced the launch of a new translator registration scheme in connection with ISO 17100 ... [read more]

Upcoming event: J-Net Winter Workshop in London

J-Net (ITI's Japanese language network) will be holding its annual winter workshop and AGM on Saturday 21 January 2017 at St Giles Hotel in Central London. The full-day event will be followed by a Shinnenkai (New Year party) at a nearby… Read more...

Season’s Greetings from WayToJapan

Best wishes for a Merry Christmas and a happy New Year from WayToJapan Translations

ITI LRG Transcreation Workshop

The University of Westminster is on Regent Street, just a stone's throw from the BBC Broadcasting House to the north and Oxford Circus tube station to the south, where a throng of people exit to the point at which this famous high street meets another magnet for shoppers, Oxford Street. It was a November evening, at the start of the Christmas shopping season, and the area was heaving. An appropriate location then, I suppose, for a workshop on transcreation organised by the ITI London Regional Group, which promised to be all about the world of advertising. There were certainly plenty outside [...]