PROFILE
  • 13 years experience as freelance Japanese-to-English translator
  • USA born, living in Japan since 1975, holding Japanese citizenship
  • Effective team player with strong work ethic
  • Also strong transcribing background with 15 years of experience
  • Typing speed: 50-70 wpm, depending on topic

RECENT JAPANESE-TO-ENGLISH TRANSLATION PROJECTS
  • Business e-mail correspondence for Sanyo Electric Company
  • Fujitsu database software manual project 
  • Prospectus for planned medical center in Kobe, Japan
  • Global sponsorship brochure for FIBA World Basketball Championships 2007
  • Catalog of Buddhist Art for Nara National Museum
  • Foreign Press Center briefing report on Japan’s Science and Technology Basic Policy
  • Foreign Press Center briefing report on revision of Japan’s imperial succession

OCCUPATIONAL EXPERIENCE
  • PenHouse, Ltd.            Shinjuku, Tokyo
  • Transcriber (English)        1992 – present
  • Clients include: United Nations, University of Tokyo Graduate School, Foreign Press Center of Japan, American Medical Association/Japan (JAMA), Asahi Shimbun        
  • Nihon Honyaku Center, Ltd.    Tokyo
  • Freelance translator         July 2005 – present

EDUCATION
  • Pennsylvania State University    University Park, Pennsylvania, USA
B.S. Business Administration    June, 1970

  • Staunton Military Academy    Staunton, Virginia, USA
High School graduation        June, 1966


WORKING ENVIRONMENT
  • Software
Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Audition 2, High Criteria Total Recorder, Microsoft Office Professional 2003, Trados, Wordfast 
  • Hardware
Pentium4 Desktop (3 machines), Pentium4 Laptop, Fax, Printer/Scanner
Internet: Optical Fiber
 

 RATES

  • Japanese to English Translation - 0.06 USD per source character / 15 USD per hour 
  • Transcription - Standard rate: 90 USD per hour of audio
  • Rates are negotiable

 

PAYMENT METHOD

  • PayPa
  • Moneybookers
  • Other 

CONTACT INFORMATION

Doiku Takeda
Ryusen-ji, 4543 Koizumi-cho
Mihara-shi, Hiroshima-ken, Japan 729-2361
tel/fax: 81-848-66-3384
mobile: 81-90-2869-4879
e-mail:  dtakeda@jlingual.com

 

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