Judy Wakabayashi is Professor of Japanese Translation at Kent State University, Ohio. With experience as an in-house and freelance translator, she has taught Japanese–English translation to postgraduate students in Australia and the United States for over three decades. She has co-edited four books on translation—Asian Translation Traditions (2005), Decentering Translation Studies: India and Beyond (2009), Translation and Translation Studies in the Japanese Context (2012) and Translating and Interpreting in Korean Contexts: Engaging with Asian and Western Others (2019)—and translated seven books.

• Contents1 Words2 Word Groups and Figurative Language3 Names 4 Numbers5 Technicalities6 Recurring Grammatical Issues7 Rhetorical Hedging and Indirectness8 Register, Tone, Emphasis, Repetition and Parallelism9 The Spoken Word10 Non-standard Varieties of Language11 Languages Interacting12 Translators at Play13 Discourse-level Issues

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