I was born and raised in Kobe, a port city in the Kansai area. I attended international schools since kindergarten, then went to college and grad school in the U.S., so all my education has been in English. (The international school did teach us Japanese.) Since I started working, I’ve been living in the Tokyo area.
I was a software engineer for 10+ years. Now I work from home as a Japanese-to-English translator. I do manga and non-manga translations, but right now, manga provides me with a much more steady stream of work.
I’ve always loved reading shojo manga. In senior high school, we had a doujinshi circle and made these , uh, really cheap-looking photocopied-and-stapled doujinshis (because we didn’t have the money to go to a real printer), and sold them at doujinshi events held in the city. I can’t draw, so I wrote poems and helped with the editing.
If I had to choose one series to take with me when I’m stranded on an island, I’d take Yamada Mineko’s Armageddon Series.
I am available for manga and non-manga translation work as my schedule permits.
Contact info: tomo [at] tkimura [dot] net