Experience

International Event Coordination:

Summer 2007: Live Earth Tokyo greening coordination.

Cultural Presentations:

2007 HandMade in America - Japanese Art & Craft Project for Craft Across the Curriculum - Teachers Workshops & Several School Workshops
2007 Art in Bloom at Black Mountain Center of the Arts - Tea Ceremony
2007 Ikebana International - Seasonal Ceremonies in Japan - lecture
2006 Ikebana International - Tea Ceremony
2006 Silent Beauty at Asheville Art Center
2005 Ikebana International - Kimono
2004 Japanese Culture Club - Kamishibai
2004 Jack Jarvis Japanese Garden - Tea Ceremony

Interpretation Work: (Partial listing for the last 10 years)

-Business conferences and meetings between Toyota/Hino Motors, Ltd. and ArvinMeritor auto parts manufacturing division in North Carolina.

-A discussion on the outlook of Japanese economy between Mr. Mori, the director of the Ministry of Finance of Japan and the US Federal Reserve Board officials in Tokyo.

-The 10^th Invest-in-Japan Study Program by JETRO: between an Indian IT business and Toshiba.

-Meetings and on-the-site instructions for show set installation and scenic art creation for Tokyo Disney Sea, a theme park, between Walt Disney Imagineering and Oriental Land, Co. in Tokyo.

-The Seminar on Investment Opportunities in ASEAN held by ASEAN Center.

  Investment consultation between the Cambodian Government and Japanese businesses in Tokyo.

-The 1998 Nagano Olympics/Paralympics official interpreter in Nagano.

-The US Department of Commerce in Tokyo Apparel show: booth interpretation.

-The 1997 Biathlon World Cup official interpreter in Nagano.

Translation Work: (Partial listing)

-Translation of a book, “The Complete History of Japanese Anime” by Yasuo Yamaguchi, an executive director of Toei Animation and secretary general of the Association of Japanese Animations. (Jap/Eng) The book is scheduled to be published in 2008.

-Sub-title translation for a Japanese animation, “Miami Guns”, with Phoenix Post Sound. (Jap/Eng)

-Research material translation for a book on WWII by Bruce Gamble. (Jap/Eng)

-Translation of speeches by Japanese NGO speakers for a UNICEF conference. (Jap/Eng)

-Subtitle translation of a promotion video of a NGO organization, Vaccination for the World’s Children Japan Committee. The video was made for a UN conference. (Jap/Eng)

-1990 JETRO International symposium audio translation. (Eng/Jap)

-Bidding documents between Sagawa Express Co. and Apple Computer Inc. (Eng/Jap & Jap/Eng)

Teaching:

-2004 to Present: Teaching beginning and intermediate Japanese at Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College, the Department of Continuing Education. The focus is on structure as well as understanding conceptual differences between Japanese and English languages.

-2003 to Present: Tutoring beginning and intermediate Japanese. One student passed Japanese Language Proficiency Test level 4, and another one passed Japanese Language Proficiency Test level 3 at this point.

-1996: Instructor of an English training program for Mitsui & Co., Ltd. employees.

-1995: Instructor and counselor of ALC, Inc. for its English education programs for adults.

-1987 to 2002: Tutoring English to middle school students and high school students. To help students to pass entrance examination for higher educational institutions.

Publications:

"Art in Bloom taps Japanese traditions" Black Mountain News, May 3, 2007
"Silent Beauty" The Laurel of Asheville, July 2006
My original work, A Journal of Albania, received a prize from Cosmos, a coterie magazine, and published in the August 2000 issue.

Contact Information

Location

Valencia, California

 

Electronic mail

General Information: shuko@possumeggs.com