by Rebecca Copeland | Jan 28, 2026 | Japanese Culture
“No, I do not want to write a report for you in Japanese,” I declared, being uncharacteristically blunt. I’d been doing research in Japan for over ten years now. I understood the importance of courtesy and willingness to acquiesce to requests, no matter how... 
by Rebecca Copeland | Dec 16, 2020 | Japanese Culture
Sometimes you choose a project. Other times it chooses you. My first major translation project was Kirino Natsuo’s Grotesque. I came about the translation in a circuitous fashion. A Japanese Studies scholar in Canada wrote to tell me about an agent in the US who was...
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