Tony Atkinson
Tony Atkinson began a full-time career as a JP-EN translator in 1988 after a decade teaching high-school science. He has also taught JP-EN medical and scientific translation at the University of Queensland. Based in Perth, Western Australia, Tony is also a history buff and has written and presented extensively on the First Indochina War.
IJET-33 Sessions:
[Pre-IJET Friday] Letters After Incarceration [Requires Separate Ticket]
Japanese-English Translation Workshop: A Live View of the Workplace
How do translators understand source texts and produce translations? What do they research while they translate? How do they find the answers to their queries in the shortest possible time? Is there any value in using an AI assistant to make research more effective? In this workshop, we will see first-hand how two experienced translators tackle source texts in areas often encountered by their...
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In spring 2019, Cliff received a box of letters found in a filing cabinet in the local historical society. Written in Japanese, they were unrelated to our local history. With a family number luggage tag and military censor stamps, they were obviously linked to the camps in which Japanese American immigrants and citizens were "relocated" and incarcerated during WWII. Who was the recipient? After...
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