Space Koala

Education

2008	-	Monbusho Research Scholarship. Kyoto Seika University, Japan. Research topic: "Manga Translation as a Vehicle of Interculture"
2007	-	Bachelor of Arts Language with Honours. Monash University. Double majors in Japanese and Linguistics and a minor in French. Honours in Japanese Translation Studies.
2002	-	Bekka Course Studies in Japanese. Ryukoku University, Japan. Studies in Japanese written and spoken language with electives in religion and culture.
2001	-	Certificate IV in Applied Language, Japanese. Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.
1998	-	Diploma of Visual Arts. Box Hill TAFE. Major in sculpture, minor in painting, with electives in computer graphics, photography and drawing.

Website Design and Coding

GaTtai - The Voltron Gamepage
Monash Manga Library

Selected Translation List

• Various exhibition texts for the Kyoto International Manga Museum in Japan.
  Topics covered include:
  • Heian Period Kyoto.
  • The History of Japanese Manga.
  • Bande Desinée (French language comics).
  • The tale of the One Thousand and One Nights.
  • Anime and manga figurines.
  • Sugiura Shigeru.
  • Dōjinshi (self-published works).
  • Yokai (Japanese ghosts, monsters, and demons).
  • Yonkoma (four panel manga).
  • Kamishibai (paper theatre plays).
• Translation of excerpts from Nihon kaiga no joseizō (The image of women in Japanese painting) by Ikeda Shinobu (Honours translation project)
• Animated movie script translation for the Australian Centre of the Moving Image.
  • Prime Rose by Tezuka Osamu
    Translation of entire script and assistance during the subtitling process.
  • Cleopatra by Tezuka Osamu
    Translation of the pre and post movie shorts and assistance during the subtitling process of the entire work.

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