Japan style sheet : the SWET guide for writers, editors, and translators

This guide has been compiled to assist writers, editors, and translators working on English-language publications related to Japan. It discusses problems that come up in connection with Japanese names and dates, and, most important, with the use of the Japanese language transcribed into the Latin alphabet. While it contains advice, information, and several appendices useful to translators and researchers in Japanese studies, it is mainly aimed at the needs of editors and writers without specialized knowledge of Japan or the Japanese language.

Japan Style Sheet is an authoritative guide for anyone working on English-language publications about Japan. Designed for non-specialists, it contains clear stylistic advice on word formation; "spelling" Japanese words; capitalization; italicization; numbers; bibliographic forms; personal and place names; and using long marks (macrons), apostrophes, and other aids to romanizing Japanese. Explanations and alternatives throughout enable writers and editors to make stylistic decisions based on their intended audiences. Ten appendices, including Internet Resources, will be especially useful to translators and fact checkers.

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Provides the information and advice necessary to make stylistic decisions when faced with Japanese subject matter. Covers word formation, spelling, capitalization, italization, numbers, bibliographic forms, personal and place names, and using macrons, apostrophes, and other aids. Ten appendices address orthography, prefectures and provinces, numbers, units of measures, historical eras, principal periods of Japanese history, and internet resources. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

A Chicago Style Manual-type guide for anyone working on English-language publications about Japan. Primarily for nonspecialists, it also contains advice and lists of resources for translators and researchers.