I am fluent in both Japanese and English and have various experiences in translating/interpreting/teaching Japanese. *Japanese (Native): completed the lecture portion of a 420-hour curriculum to become a professional Japanese teacher; taught Japanese classes to study abroad students from the U.S and to Japanese children living in the U.S. *English (Fluent): have been living in the U.S. for ~15 years; high GPA (4.0) from an Ivy league school *Translation/interpretation experiences: worked as a consultant in the pharmaceutical industry and translated deliverables for multiple projects (both Japanese to English and English to Japanese); screened more than 6,000 English papers on supplements and summarized/translated about 500 of them into Japanese; assisted the promotion of a surgical tool by attending surgery and interpreting instructions and Q&A (between the sales team of an European company and Japanese physicians)