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Instructor at Seattle Central College JP-ENTranslator of GO, Finger Bone, The Color of the Sky Is the Shape of the Heart. Next: The Healing Hippo of Hinode Park, The Lucky Ride Info: https://societyofauthors.org/soa-member/takami-nieda/
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次作が決まった。しばらくは黙って翻訳するべし。

Translation peeps: Anyone I know going to London Book Fair this year?

If you want to read The Tatami Galaxy over the next month >> www.argobookshop.ca/events

Signed!! #CDNpoli #ElonMusk #Canada

Grateful to announce that the anthology Brynn Saito and I have been working on the past couple of years — of poetry on Nikkei (Japanese Okinawan American Canadian) incarceration by 66 descendants of people imprisoned during WWII — is out 4/1 @haymarketbooks.org. Cover Rob Sato: thegateofmemory.com

Daily Walkoff ⚾️ Mets #171 🟢🟡🟢🟡 🟢🟢🟢🟢🚀 dailywalkoff.com

Department of Education FAFSA changes are open for public comment. The changes include requiring trans students to misgender themselves and removes the nonbinary option on forms. Note: comment period is 60 days, and comments are publicly visible. Form here: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

Daily Walkoff ⚾️ Mets #169 🟡🟡🟢🟡 🟢🟢🟢🟢🚀 dailywalkoff.com

As 83rd anniversary of infamous EO9066 approaches, I salute those standing w/immigrants under threat, recalling WWII race-based mass incarcerations in US concentration camps. & hope all Americans remember: 2/3rds imprisoned then were citizens, born here, children of legal immigrants, then imprisoned

Check out my review of Junko Takase’s May You Have Delicious Meals (trans Morgan Giles) in @asianreviewofbooks.bsky.social) “From an outsider’s perspective, it’s clear that the real problem is the company’s—Japan’s… perhaps the capitalist world’s—unrealistic expectations of its workforce…”

Daily Walkoff ⚾️ Mets #166 "Fly Like An Eagle" 🟡🟡🟢🟡 🟢🟢🟢🟢🚀 dailywalkoff.com

Daily Walkoff ⚾️ Mets #165 🟢🟡🟡🟢 🟢🟢🟢🟢🚀 dailywalkoff.com

REJOICE! It's finally baseball season! #LFGM #SpringTraining @mets.com

Daily Walkoff ⚾️ Mets #163 🟡🟡🟢🟢 🟢🟢🟢🟢🚀 dailywalkoff.com

Daily Walkoff ⚾️ Mets #162 "Start And Finish" 🟡🟢🟡🟡 🟢🟢🟡🟡 🟢🟢🟢🟢🚀 dailywalkoff.com

Pet peeve: authors proudly announcing that their book was "published" in another language without bothering to #NameTheTranslator. Do they think "publishing in another language" is just a matter of clicking a button? Please give your translator(s) credit for the work they have done.

Just watched "Black Box Diaries," Shiori Ito's documentary chronicling her 8-year long battle against her rapist. It absolutely wrecked me and everyone should watch it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ2R...

林真理子さんのYouTubeで、水村美苗著『大使とその妻』の書評。その中で、文化庁が海外出版の支援を行っているものの、翻訳されない理由の一つとして「翻訳者が職人気質で、惚れ込んだ作家でなければ翻訳しない」とおっしゃっていて、的を射ているなと感じた。実際、私も心から惚れ込んだ作家の作品でなければ翻訳したくないことが多いので、結局、翻訳一本で生計を立てるのは難しいんだよね。 www.youtube.com/watch?v=It_s...

Let me sign up for this free trial of Paramount so I can rage watch "Black Box Diaries." www.imdb.com/title/tt3022...

Just signed this pledge to not cross the picket line in support of NY Mag Union members!

One piece of good news today: @denshoproject.bsky.social history org is now on BlueSky!🎉🎉🎉

YouTubeで「孤独のグルメ」を見始めたら、止まらなくなった。そして、お腹が空く〜!

Never imagined in my lifetime we'd be fighting Nazis in DJT's administration.

Extended weekend reading! Beautiful, haunting, and devastating.

Trying to keep my mind off of Orange Voldemort this weekend.

Weekend reading!

あと少しで芥川賞発表か。乗代さん5度目で取るかな。『旅する練習』か『それは誠』で取って欲しかったけど、応援しています。

Cover reveal! Coming July 8 2025! The true story of mixed-race families in America's WWII concentration camps for Japanse Americans, and of one mother's fraught choices & conflicting loyalties; the upheaval & violence these engendered; & her quest to survive w/her family intact & her children safe.

Just found out that my translation of Mado Arite's "The Hakusan Street Incident" is now available as an ebook! The story follows Nozomi who signs up for a dating app but instead finds herself meeting with an assassin... A big thanks to Takami Nieda for her fantastic editing and to Kawade Shobo ✨

1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts? Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from. Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!

Yay, @tiffanytsao.bsky.social ! 👏🏽👏🏽🎉🎉

🚨Japanese Translators: Accounts on X are pirating Jp. books in translation in PDF and sharing them thru social media. I've notified pubs I know, but please reach out to your publishers. 🚨🚨

めちゃくちゃ好きな作品を英訳したいのに、出版社の協力を得られず、断念。無償で翻訳しろと言うのか。💢英訳を望んでいる作家さんも可哀想。😭

🚨Japanese Translators: Accounts on X are pirating Jp. books in translation in PDF and sharing them thru social media. I've notified pubs I know, but please reach out to your publishers. 🚨🚨

Starred review in PW for Downpour by Yuko Ohnari and Koshiro Hata (tr. me) 🥳https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781636551142