translation competition Archives

Japanese to English Translation Competitions 2026

2025 was…yeah… But at least 2026 looks it’s going to be better. Right? …right? Sadly the rampant generated slop is encroaching more and more on translation. It’s not only stealing people’s work (for training and in terms of jobs), it’s

I got 2nd Place in a Literary Translation Competition!

On March 12th 2018 J. D. Wisgo of Self Taught Japanese announced a literary translation competition for promising translators. (Japanese Translation Contest Announced: Promising Translators 2018.) This competition was for novice translators who are unpublished to translate a short literary