"Interpreters' role perceptions in business dialogue interpreting situations" is an interesting paper I had not notice so far. It was published in 2006 by Takimoto, Masato at Monash university in Australia. The title is expressive enough to understand what is the subject covered. In the second page of the paper, the author listed up the interpreters he interviewed, Japanese-English liaison interpreters in Australia. I was surprised that four out of the seven listed were native speakers of English. Australia tells a different story compared with Japan. Four out of seven may not reflect a statistical reality but it shows that professional interpreters of Japanese-English are not drastically limited to native speakers of Japanese as it is the case in Japan.
Close to 30 years after graduating from university, the emptiness of the program offered at that time not only still looms in the background, but as new vistas have been open up through this blog, it tells of how inadequate the curriculum was, and still is in France, based at least on the reading of pathetically coarse exchanges of current students in public chat rooms.
I saw one point in the paper that may be a major clue to investigate the big difference, not only between Australia and France, but also between Australia and Japan. All the listed interpreters were mentioned as being accredited by NAATI. And no only only that. The Monash Japanese language faculty blurb online specifically refers to the interpreting and translation strand as geared toward getting NAATI accreditation as a launch pad into the real professional life. There are no national accreditation system, both in France and Japan. Pseudo-accreditation is in the hand of schools, and worse in the case of Japan, in the hand of private schools, like Simul. It close-circuits the scope of what could be the local market if it were not manipulated by a closed knit network of schools doing the marketing and luring students into a professional market they hide the boundaries of.
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