asakom (kotoba-bridge)

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Over 3 years ago
Japan
Japanese (Native) English
Comics Culture Business Publishing/Press Release
20 hours / week
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English to Japanese Translator
Highly motivated to translate Environment, Tourism, Children's books, Gaming, and Comic

Activities:
- Completed training for environment translations
- Completed Nikkei National Geographic Translation Course
- Volunteer translator for an international NGO that focuses on water, sanitation, and hygiene
- Active participant in translation seminars and workshops

Translator (2017~)
- Website translation for gaming
- MTPE: Experienced 40,000 words+ (work speed: 300 wpm)
- Materials and videos about water and sanitation conditions in developing countries (En-J)
- Research Materials about organic farming (En-J)
- Academic materials on herbs (En-J)
- Subtitles for event PR video (En-J)
- Magazine articles (En-J)
- Business report (En-J)
- In-house newsletter (En-J, J-En)
- Web magazine articles (En-J, J-En)
- Four-frame cartoon (J-En)

Web Writer (2020~)
-Create persona-based conversational text (560 utterances+).
-SEO writing (30+ projects, 6000 words per project)
-Contents writing for a travel booking site.

Transcription (2021~)
-Kick-off meeting movie (1.5 hours of practical work)
-Transcription Skills Test - 630 points (2021)

Others:
-General office work
-Counter operations for travel agency
-In charge of owned media management (web/blog/SNS)
-Planning, writing, editing, and distributing company's newsletters

Interests:
-Picture books, Children's literature
-Environment
-Tourism
-Art, Design
-Childcare

Things I like:
-Traveling
-Reading (novels/picture books/comics)
-Painting and drawing
-Visiting Art Museum

Availability:
-Weekdays 10:00 AM~5:00PM

Specialties

Language Pair Area of Specialty Experience Description Example Translations
English → Japanese Business 1 year 主にオーガニック分野の和訳
- 資料(有機農業/ハーブ/アロマテラピー)
- 研修レポート
English → Japanese Publishing/Press Release 2 years - 日経ナショナルジオグラフィック翻訳講座 出版翻訳コース修了
- いたばし国際絵本翻訳大賞に応募し、英語の絵本を一冊和訳(2018年,2019年)
Japanese → English Comics 2 years - 4コマ漫画の英訳に携わる
- 季節行事や昔話、風習など、日本での暮らしに根ざしたストーリーを多く扱う
Japanese → English Culture 2 years - 日本語学習者向けWebマガジンの英訳に携わる
- Webマガジンでは、季節や社会情勢に合わせた日本の話題を扱う

Work History

LEVEL & LANGUAGE PAIR Market Projects
(Completed / In Progress)
Standard Requests
(Translation Jobs / Total Words Translated)
Light Requests
(Translation Jobs / Total Words Translated)
Starter Japanese ≫ English 0 0  / 0 3  / 456
Starter (High) English ≫ Japanese 2 0  / 0 0  / 0

Working Data

Working Hours
last 6 months (hour / month)
Submission Rate
(submission count / order count)
443 hour / month 100 % (5 / 5)