Speaker

Julian Kitchen

Julian previously served as Chair of the IJET-30 (Cairns) Organising Committee. He has over 20 years’ experience as a Japanese–English translator and has been a member of JAT for around the same number of years.

Born and raised in Melbourne, he is currently based in Tokyo. He first came to Japan in 1990 at the age of 16, spending a year studying at a high school in Nagoya. Since then, he has lived in Japan on and off for a total of approximately 12 years.

He currently works full-time as an in-house legal translator at a major international law firm. He holds a Bachelor’s degree from Monash University, where he studied Japanese, Mandarin and law, as well as an Advanced Diploma of Translating and Interpreting from RMIT University. He is also a NAATI-certified Japanese–English professional translator.