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JAT Bulletin 184-185, July-August 2000

Kathleen Taji,
JAT President

JAT Board

JAT Board Report
July 2000

The JAT Board meeting held on June 15, 2000 was attended by Susumu Ando, Ron Jones, Bob Oliver, Emily Shibata-Sato, Yukihiro Sato, and Kathleen Taji. The meeting began at 12:30 p.m. and ended at 2:15.
The following items of business were discussed. Directors, Tony Atkinson in Australia, Steve Venti in Suzuka, and John Zimet in Great Britain were not present.

1. Treasurer’s Report (Bob Oliver) One million yen was sent to Mayumi Nishioka, chair of the IJET-2000 organizing committee, from the JAT treasury to cover the cost of the Kyoto venue, since all payments received by KAGI from conference participants had not been sent to the IJET-2000 account in time to meet the payment deadline for the conference hall.
   
   The printing cost of the IJET-9 Proceedings was about 300,000 yen and the postage cost was about 100,000 yen.
   
   In addition, Bob will compile a detailed financial report for FY1999 which will be uploaded on the JAT website in July.
   
   
2. Tokyo Activities Committee (Yukihiro Sato)
   
   The guest speaker for the July meeting will be Kayoko Nohara, linguistics researcher at Gakushuin University, who will discuss her research on best-selling novels that have been translated into Japanese. Ms. Nohara was recommended by JAT member, Judy Wakabayashi.
   
   There will be no JAT meeting in August.
   
   As of the June Board meeting, a speaker for the September JAT meeting had not been selected among the potential speakers who had been approached.
   
   Steve Venti’s proposal that JAT provide a subsidy to the Kansai Activities Committee (KAC) for official committee activities in proportion to the number of members they will serve, has been put on hold for the time being. The general consensus of the directors present was that the number of KAC meetings was as yet sporadic and that a subsidy should be considered after the committee had become more firmly established in its activities.
   
   However, the JAT treasury will support KAC for the meeting room rent and the honoraria for KAC speakers.
   
   The decision to provide an honorarium of 20,000 yen to JAT meeting speakers, who were non-members, was passed by the previous Board in March 2000. This decision has been modified by the current Board to include speakers who are JAT members as well. As of September 2000, JAT meeting speakers, both members and non-members (at TAC and KAC meetings), will be presented an honorarium of 20,000 yen.
   
   
3. KAC Chair
   
   Steve Venti has stepped down as chair of the Kansai Activities Committee. Richard Sadowsky was appointed as the new chair on June 27, 2000.
   
   
4. Meeting with the part-time administrator of the Northern California Translators Association (NCTA)
   
   Bob Oliver and Kathy Taji will be meeting Juliet Viola, the part-time administrator of the NCTA, on August 1, 2000 in San Francisco, Ca. to collect information on how the NCTA successfully managed to divide its administrative duties between its volunteer board of directors and the part-time administrator. Introductions were provided by Ann Macfarlene, President of the ATA, and Julia has kindly consented to meet with them.
   The JAT treasury will reimburse Bob for the cost of the roundtrip airline ticket between Japan and the United States and hotel expenses. Kathy Taji, who will be in Los Angeles visiting her family at this time, will be reimbursed for the cost of the roundtrip train fare from Los Angeles to San Francisco and hotel expenses.
   
   
5. JAT Website
   
   Due to the move of family and job from Suzuka to Utsunomiya and the limited online access available to him at this time, Steve Venti appointed Jeremy Whipple to fill in for him as unofficial Webmaster until mid-September. Therefore, the task of selecting a web design company to revamp the JAT website has been put on hold until Steve is able to resume the work of Webmaster.
   
   
6. Ron Jones officially submitted his resignation as a JAT director on June 17.
   Hidenori Kashihara was nominated as a director candidate to fill the vacancy on the board. The quorum of five directors present at the meeting voted to appoint Kashihara san, pending his agreement to join the board. He was officially appointed as a JAT director on June 22, 2000.
   
   
7. ijet.org.domain name
   
   The JAT Board has officially taken charge of the ijet.org.domain name from Adam Rice.
   
   
8. There will be no board meeting in August.　

Membership Secretary's Report
Tony Atkinson. membership@jat.org

The Membership Secretary's Report for June 2000.

As of July 7, 2000, the statistics for JAT membership are as follows.

New members who joined in June: 14 (listed in alphabetical order)
James Anderson
Curtis Bentley III
Robert Campbell
Keiko Donovan
Fumiko Fujinami
Kenneth Gillow
Yukari Ishihara
Tomoko Kuse
Emma Longhorn
Kathryn Luce
Chris Savidge
Hiroko Sloboda
Mark S.P. Smith
Eiji Yoshida
　
Renewal dues and directory updates were received from the following members from June 9 through July 7 (listed in alphabetical order).

Committee reports

Bookshelf Committee
Chair George Tokikuni, bookshelf@jat.org

We have nothing to report this month.

External Liaison Committee
Chair Fred Uleman, liaison@jat.org

The four FIT-affiliated organizations in Tokyo (JAT, JST, JTA, and JTF) met on July 6 to hear the JST's Kanaya report on the FIT's June 9-12 Executive Committee and Council meeting in Italy.

There were two main points of special interest: VARC and the FIT Newsletter.

For some years, there has been talk of forming an Asian Regional Center within FIT to facilitate communication among the translator organizations in the Asia-Oceania region. A preliminary conference was held in Beijing in 1985 and a follow-up was held in Seoul in 1988 In Beijing, it was agreed that this is a good idea but that it has to develop gradually. We also agreed that there should not be a permanent secretariat or other things
that would cost money or would violate the spirit of equality and sharing. In Seoul, it was further agreed that this can best be started on the Internet, since that obviates the need for people to meet together and offers everyone easy access. Nonetheless, progress on this Virtual Asian Regional Center has been very slow, and the only thing significant to report is that another meeting will be held in Hong Kong in 2001 and that a logomark has been agreed upon for stationery and the like.

For many years, FIT has issued a magazine called _Babel_. This quarterly carries research reports and other articles on linguistics and translation.
However, it is not widely read and is a drain on the FIT budget. It was thus decided to gradually phase it out and to replace it with something that will be of more immediate interest to commercial translators. As part of this, it was agreed in Sicily that it would be good to have people in the different regions who would collect news and other material from organizations in the region and would forward them to FIT for inclusion. A number of people on the FIT Executive Committee suggested JAT's Uleman for this, and I have tentatively agreed (subject to the approval of the JAT Directors).

Further details on the FIT meeting will arrive from FIT later, and I will report them then.

NPO　Committee ・　NPO委員会
Chair Emily Shibata-Sato, npo@jat.org

特にありません。７月から８月にかけて、提出書類についての調査をはじめる予定です。

Publications Committee
Chair Emily Shibata-Sato, JAT Publications Director, editor@jat.org
Members Kathy Taji, Judy Wakabayashi, Roger Machin, Hidenori Kashihara

夏休み特集号（７・８月合併号）の発刊準備を行った。

• 「ハリー・ポッター」シリーズの翻訳者松岡佑子さん からインタビューへの回答を頂いた。
• IJET-2000に出席したアン・マクファーレンATA会長から、 会議のレポートを頂いた（ATA Chronicleに掲載されたもの）。
• 「健康法」に関するコメントを会員から募集したところ、 多数の回答が寄せられた。

Tokyo Activities Committee
Chair Yukihiro Sato hanami@mx2.nisiq.net

No report was submitted.

Website Committee
Chair Steven P. Venti, JAT Website Director, webmaster@jat.org

No report was submitted.

Kansai Activities Committee
Chair, Richard Sadowsky sadowsky@sannet.ne.jp

A post-IJET gathering was held in a bar in Kobe on June 18th attended by 12-15 people where a good discussion among participants about the conference ensued, particularly about the closing panel session. Mutsuyo and Jim Unger also participated, visiting from the U.S. This was not, however an official JAT event, and as everyone on the board should recall, we did not have permission to use the IJET email list of participants. So it was a smaller gathering because those who would have attended had they known were not notified. And in fact an official report is not required.

Friede Horn has been instrumental in planning a JAT Kansai OFFICIAL gathering in Osaka on July 16th that will soon be publicly announced, with a talk by David Eunice, a frequent contributor Kansai translator/writer gatherings. I will be overseas July 5-13th.

I guess the news this month is that I accepted the JAT Kansai leadership role after Steve Venti moved to Utsunomiya.

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