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English to Japanese: extraction from a recent work: Bylaw ammendment General field: Bus/Financial Detailed field: Law (general)
Source text - English Amend Article X, Section 2
Purpose: Eliminate requirement for members to be at least age 18. Instead, the wording would now read “adult” – meaning the age of legal majority, which may vary among nations.
Note: It has recently been discovered that the legal age is 19 and 21 in three U.S. states and as low as 14 and 16 in some other nations. Both types of exceptions pose special concerns, which will be explored during discussion by council.
Translation - English On the 11th March, the earth quake day, I was tidying up the Restaurant where I work part time when the earth quake hit.
As soon as I heard the rumbling noise, the earth started to move, “Get out everyone, it’s huge” shouted the restaurant owner, and all the staff ran out to the car park, and that was when the huge shock struck us- We could hardly stand.
All we could do was to hold each others’ hands, squat down, and see the things around us rolling like huge waves.
Once the quake stopped I wend back inside the restaurant to find a big fridge moved and blocking the way, and broken glasses scattered all over the floor.
After shocks struck one after another. The owner told everyone to go home and find the family, so I managed to grab my bag and get into the car through the fallen shelves.
My second son was at my friend’s house but I couldn’t get through on the phone which worried me so badly. Once on the road, the traffic was a chaos- No traffic lights were working, walls fell down to block the way, and on top of that I had to stop every time I felt the after shocks. It usually takes only 5 minutes by car to my friends flat but it eventually took half an hour.
Outside of my friends’ flat, I saw a group of people gathered, squatting on the ground- I couldn’t help crying when I found my son amongst them. My friend and her family were also there, and were also OK.
Now we had to find my other son who was at primary school, the building of which was newly built with the latest quakeproof technology. I tried to tell myself that he should be all right as long as he was there, but it was so hard to drive the car with my hands still shaking with the fear, I could hardly hold the steering wheel. It would have been a nightmare if the earthquake had hit 10 minutes later as it was almost time for them to go home.
Luckily enough my son was there safely, so we headed back home.
It was even more shocking to see my house- all the windrows were opened by the earthquake even though I locked all the doors and windows when I left the house this morning. Inside was a total mess with broken walls, fallen shelves and draws all covered with the dust.
My parents in law live next door and their house was also a mess- dishes and plant pots were all broken, and even the roof tiles were on the ground with some broken. My mother in law was waiting for us shaking in a corner at the back of the room.
We decided to stay in my in law’s house together for the night, so I packed some clothes for my family from our place and bought some blankets. I was very lucky that we had our emergency bags ready with some food, bank cards, and health insurance card.
Back at my in laws house, we tidied up a room to have some space to sleep and made the Futon ready before it got dark.
My husband and father in law came home OK, but without any information we didn’t know what was going on.
The night without the electricity was so dark, felt very long, and ever so quiet. When we walked out of the door, we saw thousands of stars in the sky- I’d never forget how beautiful they were. It makes you realise how bright the street lights are during the night.
We went to bed at 7pm as we couldn’t do anything else, but it was so hard to have a decent sleep.
My first son kept jumping out of the bed every time an after shock occurred. I told him that’s Ok, that’s OK, and spent all night rubbing his back for comfort.
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Specialized in science with MRes and MSc in Environmental Science awarded from University of East Anglia, UK. I'm also a Sasagawa science research fellow.
Various project management experiences with Japanese Ministry of Environment, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Cabinet office of Japan regarding Coral Research and Climate Change Adaptation Projects.
With practical experiences in organising international conferences as a member of secretariat, translations of conference documents/presentations can be provided with quality in reader friendly manner.
Translation Experiences
JP - ENG translations:
- Key note lecture on Coral research
- Conference documents for International expert meeting on Project designing for collaborative research on Pacific islands
- Divers magazine article on tropical Corals and fish
- Users manual/specification documents for Japanese Manufacturer
ENG-JP translations:
- website localisation for CRed Japan project
- conference and meeting documents for local authority
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