Behind the goodwill mask

Discourse is historically set in a web of beliefs and fixed views that make you think things have always been like this. A strong tone in the background echo of interpretation is the function of facilitating harmony in international relations. The PMs raise their glasses in front of the camera while the interpreters behind, trying hard to play the back clad "invisible" prop setters at the kabuki allow exchanges of international mundanities to take place. Now take some prison in some island where indistinct prisoners are under harsh questioning. There is an interpreter attending. Take another location where some MP in heavy gear is checking IDs of passers-by. The guy with a black mask hiding face features despite the torching heat is not playing rambo, but doing his chores, that of a military assisting interpreter. And the mask is a way to hide and save his life. A new book is to be released in July. The name is "Deciphering the Rising Sun: Navy and Marine Corps Codebreakers, Translators and Interpreters in the Pacific War". I had been waiting for something systematic covering the subject for years. From a US point of view at least, interpretation with Japan blossomed under violence. In the legendary mythical recounting of interpretation, what comes as a prominent story is how simultaneous bloomed in piece treaty negotiations, in trials of the villains after the wars. In Japan where the subject of interpretation is a public focus of interest, the trade is basking on a stage dripping with chorus of harmony among nations and trading people oozing of goodwill. At a university in Tokyo, a coming competition of student-interpreters is scheduled to end with some conference on 通訳と異文化コミュニケーション. Warmth and effusion. I am curious to read a coming book in Iwani junior collection about interpretation. Yes, a book for teens. Would such book be possible in your country? I am curious about what will be highlighted in that book. The international goodwill with marginal reference to court/police interpretation, interpretation in violent communities, under war, etc? It could be that the book covers most about everything though. That deep vein of interpretation in goodwill, of mending situations is pervasive as it has set the tone of a profession that is also ripe to take place in conflictual, putrid situations, including business interpretation where courteous relationships are not always what is at stake.