Shaping the Field of Translation In Japanese ↔ Turkish Contexts II

Nobuo Misawa (三沢伸生). Turkologist scholar, works on the relationship between Japan and the Islamic World. Languages: Japanese, the modern Turkish and the Ottoman Turkish, English. Main Works: Verification for the Achievements of a Japanese Merchant in Istanbul: personal history of Torajirō Yamada, Tokyo 2017, “The beginning of the Japanese language education in the Ottoman Empire”, Osmanlı Araştırmaları (41), 2013, 253–278 (with Göknür Akçadağ), Türk - Japon Ticaret İlişkileri, İstanbul 2011.

Shingo Yamashita (山下 真吾) is a historian, working at Hōsō University and Takasaki City University of Economics (part-time lecturer). His research field/current subject is the Ottoman prose literature and historical thoughts in the classical period. His main languages are Japanese, Turkish and Ottoman Turkish. Some of his studies on Ottoman Turkish-Japanese are as follows: “Ottoman Historiography with the Example of Ahmedi’s ‘Book of Alexander,’ ” World Congress of Middle Eastern Studies, Universitat Autonoma, Barcelona, 19 July 2010.

Gülzemin Özrenk Aydın, Her PhD is on Japanese Turkologist Kōji Ōkubo. She is specialized in Japanese language and language policy. She completed her MA in Asian Languages and Literature at University of Washington in 2001, her MA in Eastern Languages and Literature at Ankara University in 2010. Her MA thesis was on Japanese language policy. She did BA in Japanese Language and Literature Department at Ankara University, in 1997. She has been working at the Turkish Language Institute since 2002. She also edited PIAC Proceedings, 2003. She has several publications both academic and popular context about Japan and Japanese language.

Iku Nagashima (永島 育) His PhD is on Turkish History in the Department of Oriental History, Faculty of Letters, Waseda University. He is a Research Fellow of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. He is working on Ottoman Modern History. He knows Japanese, Turkish and Ottoman. Some examples of the previous studies: 2016. “Ottoman Empire, Privileged Province “Bulgaria”, and System of Berlin Treaty (1876–1909)”, MA Thesis; 2014. “Abdulhamid II and the Ottoman Empire at the Dusk & Dawn of the Century as Seen through the Hejaz Railway”, Shikan, 171, 44–65.

Sinan Levent is a full-time faculty member at Ankara University, in Turkey, Faculty of Languages, History and Geography. He holds a Major in Political History of Japan and History of Japanese Diplomacy. Mr. Levent is fluent in Japanese, English; he possesses an advanced reading level in Korean and his native language is Turkish. Among his main works we can list the following: Books: Levent, S. (2014). Senzenki-Senchūki ni okeru Nihon no “Yūrashia Seisaku” -Tūranshugi, Kaikyō Seisaku, Hanso Hankyō Undō no Shiten kara (Eurasian Policy of Imperial Japan Before and During World War II), Tokyo: Waseda University Press Monograph 107. Levent, S. (2015). İkinci Dünya Savaşı Yolunda Japonya -Cumhuriyet Gazetesi Üzerinden Türk Basınında Japonya İmajı (1933–1941)- (Japan on the Way to the Second World War -Images of Japan Created by the Inter-war Turkish Press The Role of Cumhuriyet, Turkish Daily Newspaper 1933–1941), İstanbul: Kitapdostu Yayınları. Levent, S. (2016). Japon Turancılığı (Turanism in Japan), İstanbul: Tarih Vakfı Yayınları. Levent, S. (2018). Militarizmden Pasifizme Geçişte Japonya (Japan in Transition from Militarism to Pacifism), İstanbul: Doğu Kütüphanesi Yayınevi. Translations: Eylül 2011, (together with Masumi Tani) Gönül Bağı Türk-Japon İlişkilerinin 120. Yılı (Kizuna -Toruko to Nihon no 120 Nen-), Japon-Türk Kültür Derneği. Ryōichi Tobe, E. (2009) İkinci Dünya Savaşı Sırasında Türkiye’deki Japon Büyükelçiliği（Dai Ni Ji Sekai Taisenka no Zai Toruko Nihon Taishikan). Prof. Dr. A. Mete Tuncoku (edit.) Japon Araştırmacıların Gözünden Türkiye Sempozyumu, pp. 37–50.

Derya Akkuş Sakaue earned her PhD at the Graduate School of International Development, Nagoya University. Her research interests cover Turkish-Japanese linguistics, language acquisition, pragmatics and cross-cultural communication. From 1999 to 2014, she worked in the Department of Japanese Language Education at Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University.

Yukiko Kondo (近藤 幸子) graduated from Aoyama Gakuin University, Faculty of Education. From 1993 to 2014, she worked as a lecturer in the Department of Japanese Language Education at Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University. She taught many Japanese classes, including Turkish-Japanese and Japanese-Turkish translation.

Okan Haluk Akbay. Selcuk University, Faculty of Letters, Japanese Language and Literature Department. Department Head. Main Works: Japon Öykü Seçkisi [Japanese Short Stories: An Anthology] (2012), Haiku Seçkisi [Selected Haiku] (2012), Japon Kültürü Terimler Sözlüğü [Dictionary of Japanese Culture] (2012), Geleneksel Japon Mizahı [Traditional Japanese Humor] (2014), Kojiki – Japon Mitolojisine Bir Yolculuk [Kojiki – A Survey of Japanese Mythology] (2014), Fudoki – Antik Çağ Japon Söylenceleri [Fudoki – A Record of Ancient Japan] (2014), Lafcadio Hearn’den Japon Halk Hikâyeleri [Japanese Folktales from Lafcadio Hearn] (2014), Kültür Bağlamında Japon Masalları [Japanese Fables and Japanese Culture] (2015), Japon Atasözlerinden Seçmeler [Selected Japanese Proverbs and Sayings] (2015)

Aytemis Depci. She has been Japanese and English Instructor since 2010 and currently employed at Iskenderun Technical University, Turkey. Her research fields include Japanese and American Literature and linguistics. Her Phd is about “Other and Shadow in Haruki Murakami’s Novels” in Ankara University. She was graduated at Ankara University, Japanese Language and Literature department, Turkey. She also studied Spanish at University of Utah, USA. She holds MA degrees in both, Japanese Language and Literature and English Language and Literature departments. She knows Turkish, English, Japanese, Spanish and German. She has published eight articles in international refereed journals.