早霧 山川

Boutique style translation and localisation agency with designated translator/s per project.

- EN<->JA translation and review
- clients and subcontract translator/agencies management
- EN>JA localisation project management
- multilingual translation project management
- provide third-party evaluation/rating of translators for external projects

Clients and projects include:
JA>EN and EN>JA UI so

Worked as Business Development Manager at 株式会社Jスタイルズ.

Worked as Corporate Planning Specialist at 株式会社Jスタイルズ.

Worked as Bilingual Recruitment Consultant at Guidepoint Tokyo.

Hands-on team management and business process improvement of 10 Japanese linguists WFH across Japan, comprehended from local branch into global Translation Services team in 2020.

Team workflow management
- Sorted out and partially resolved bottleneck tasks/workflows distracting the team from focusing on core job
- Cleaned up multiple customary work specific to Japanese team remaining from before

Test environment issue status tracking and progress management in English and Japanese

- Bug status reporting at daily department meeting
- Alignment and assignment coordination with local and global dev teams
- Status sharing with external vendors, daily global call facilitation and status report, consecutive interpreter
- Troubleshooting meeting set up and facilitation
- Information gatherin

As the 12th Japan office member, my responsibilities and tasks included:

- Pre-launch localisation from scratch working directly under Country Manager and closely with Headquarter Engineering team, for all contents on website/apps/emails
- Point of contact for partner agencies, working closely with PR agencies and legal office in relation not only with translation, but also media communication

Both EN>JP and JP>EN translation, review, localisation with expertise in:
news and documentary, press release, research report, legal and other documents and footages translation with some strength in economy & finance field, UI localisation

Recent work include:
EN>JA cybersecurity news articles abridged translation for top tier consulting company
JA>EN within-the-day press release translation f

As first ever linguist outside Seattle office, worked satellite with full responsibility for the Japanese Search Vocabulary - initial core task being English to Japanese search words translation from scratch with huge stream from 2012 Olympics, and later retroactive adjustment/modification of existing vocabulary to improve customers’ search experience including those based on:
- monthly zero/top

Translation and related tasks including proofreading on:

USGAAP texts and videos (EN>JP)
Accounting and auditing related documents (EN>JP) e.g. Global Audit Methodology procedures and manuals
Advisory services related documents (EN>JP) e.g. ASEAN real estate market report
FY12 annual business report (JP>EN)
Internal rules and announcement scripts (JP>EN) e.g. privacy policy

Tool used: Trados

Online EN/JP research on financial services in general, mainly in the US, under given objectives:
e.g. compensation and further education at growing regional brokerages, post-M&A moves at financial institutions, vendor and third party services, regulatory moves at SEC, FINRA and States after 2008, SNS practice by Financial Advisors

News clipping AND translation of articles from several online me

Translation of latest financial news and breaking stories from Reuters, Dow Jones and other major newswires, primarily to be provided to fund companies and later released online
Mostly concerning commodities, from weather reports in wheat/soybeans producing regions, oil refineries operation rates to platinum market reports
Translation speed about 8-10 articles (100-600 words in translated Japanese

Japanese subtitling of English news broadcasts from emerging nations (Voice of India, Al Jazeera English, etc.), working 4-8 p.m./2 days a week under tight deadline for 10 p.m. on-air, often without the original language script and using SST software.
Mainly handled market/business and culture, working in coordination with 6 other translators.
Tool used: SST

Translation of Operation Manuals to be used at a Japanese bank’s new overseas branch
English e-mail proofreading

Issued Jul 2024

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