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Manako Ihaya
Japanese to English
Shawn Morse
Japanese-English | Financial, Business, Technical | Trados Studio, Phrase, memoQ

Seattle, Washington, United States
Local time: 04:43 PDT (GMT-7)

Native in: English 
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Hello! こんにちは！

I am an ISO 17100:2105-compliant translator with 20+ years of professional experience and 10 years residing in Japan. I translate in the following specialty areas:

* Automotive (repair guides, user manuals, specifications, vehicle export certificates, 取扱説明書, 仕様書, 輸出予定届出証明書)

* Business & marketing (business and legal documents, business correspondence, annual reports, marketing reports, presentations)

* Finance (annual reports, CSR reports, IR, sustainability reports, ESG, アニュアルレポート, 招集通知, 決算短信, 統合報告書, 決算説明会資料)

* IT (especially electronics, computers, and software)

I have over 20 years of experience as a freelance translator and editor.

I have completed numerous major translation and localization projects with high quality and quick turnaround.

Some of my major end-clients include Microsoft, Toshiba, Sony, Toyota, Fujitsu, Dentsu, NEC, and other global companies.

I am an expert user of Trados Studio, MultiTerm, memoQ, and Phrase. Active Member of the American Translator's Association (ATA), Japanese Language Division Northwest Translators & Interpreters Society

Passed Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT) Level 1

Worked six years as an in-house Japanese>English technical translator in Tokyo, Japan.

B.A. Japanese, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

B.A. Japan Studies, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo, Japan. ___________________________________________________________

Please visit my website for more information www.pacific-translations.com

Please contact me for specific rates.

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Find me at LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pacifictranslations/ ________________________________________________________________

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Japanese to English16
Top general fields (PRO)
Tech/Engineering12
Marketing4
Top specific fields (PRO)
Advertising / Public Relations4
IT (Information Technology)4
Mechanics / Mech Engineering4
Photography/Imaging (& Graphic Arts)4

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Project History Summary
Total projects3
With client feedback1
Corroborated1
100% positive (1 entry)
positive1
neutral0
negative0

Job type
Translation3
Language pairs
Japanese to English3
Specialty fields
IT (Information Technology)2
Computers: Systems, Networks1
Computers: Software1
Computers: Hardware1
Computers (general)1
Other fields
Photography/Imaging (& Graphic Arts)1
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Apr 15



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