Friday, March 20, 2009
Medical translation course starts in May
By MARIKO KATO
Staff writer
Japan’s first full-scale medical translation course will start in May at translation colleges run by Inter Group Co. to produce trained interpreters for hospitals.
Yearlong courses in medical translation between Japanese and English will be held at five branches of Inter Group, known as Inter Schools, for a total of 104 students in Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Hiroshima and Fukuoka.
The courses will be supervised by Rinku General Medical Center in Osaka, which opened an international clinic in 2006 where foreign patients …

Caritas Francis Hsu College Hong Kong
Higher diploma in translation and interpretation
Languages: English – Chinese
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Chinese University of Hong Kong
BA in translation
MA in translation
MA in computer-aided translation
Master of philosophy in translation
Doctor of philosophy in translation
BA in translation – Juris Doctor double degree
LLB – BA in translation double degree
Languages for all degrees: English – Chinese
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EFL University
Diploma in translation
Languages: Arabic – English, English – Arabic
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Diploma in technical and scientific translation
Languages: Russian – English, English – Russian
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University of Hyderabad
M.Phil. in translation studies
PhD in translation studies
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University of Indonesia
Translation course
Languages: English – Indonesian, Indonesian – English
Interpreting course
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Bunka Institute of Language
Japanese-Chinese interpreter/translator training course
Japanese-Korean interpreter/translator training course
English interpreter/translator training course
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Universiti Sains Malaysia
Master in translation
PhD in translation
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Nanyang Technological University
Graduate diploma in translation and interpretation
Languages: English – Chinese
(link to website)
National University of Singapore
Applied Chinese language & translation
Languages: English – Chinese
(link to website)
SIM University
BA / BA (Honours) translation and interpretation
Languages: English – Chinese, Chinese – English
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