JVTA, Inc. is diversified yet focused company offering a suite of services specializing in to-/from-Japanese translation and interpretation.  The “academy” in our name is used in the truest spirit of the word, as we work to advance the craft and profession of translation through a comprehensive model.

The most core, integral part of JVTA’s comprehensive model of advancing the craft and profession of translation and interpretation is achieved through our vocational training school. The school conducts translator training courses in order to cultivate translation talent that is so important to the industry.  Our objectives include preparing persons who are highly fluent in the Japanese and English languages to become proficient in the knowledge and skills required for professional employment as interpreters and translators.  Whether translators are new seeking to establish themselves or experienced seeking to expand their skill sets, JVTA has the resources to assist and support you.

MISSION


The Heart of Words

When words are used as a medium of cross-cultural communication, people tend to hit a wall of limitations. We find it difficult to express even a fraction of our thoughts in words, and words are merely one aspect of a wide communication context, much of which is nonverbal. It is indeed a challenge to use spoken and written words to communicate our ideas to others. It appears that only when we strive to connect with the “heart” of another person – the repository of his or her deep and sincere feelings and beliefs, the wellspring of individual character, intellect and imagination – can we truly begin to understand the “heart” of his or her words. We believe that both the heart and mind of words are vital to language communication.

Abstract Affect of Words

America’s great social reformer and civil libertarian, Helen Keller, became blind and deaf from an acute illness 19 months after her birth. As a result, she was unable to speak for the next 8 years of her life. She was nevertheless able to overcome these great barriers to communication, becoming a world-renowned lecturer on the rights of handicapped citizens. Through Keller’s references, understanding of words, we learn following insight:

While words are convenient, when these sound and light wave stimuli called words reach our cerebrums through one’s nervous system, information is abstracted from the words completely in a subconscious mind. Through these abstract affections, to drop out the partial truth, leaving true understanding to reside in extreme obscurity amid the world of words. Therefore, words are markedly inferior to the non-verbal world and to silence that surpasses words. Communication through words only expresses a very small part of the truth.

We think that to correct the type of instantaneous and erroneous cerebral judgment – a result of abstracting words through one’s unconscious and often-unreliable mental or emotional states – it is important to cultivate an attitude of what might be called “ethical listening.” This is defined as a rational, non-judgmental state of heightened consciousness from which one can begin a probative search for the truth, the intended message, which lies behind and within those abstract symbols, called “words.” We consider this sense of ethics to be our guiding principle for understanding others.


Unity of Body and Mind

Through recent advances in quantum theory we have come to understand that matter and energy are not separate, they are interchangeable. We now recognize the interconnected-ness of body and mind, and the affect of the observer on that which is observed. We find that consciousness and intent have an effect on the outcome of events. We find that strong consciousness and strong intent have an effect stronger the better on events.

As a Danish theoretical physicist Niels Bohr said, “Some of the movements in the world of atoms clarify their specific existence only when people make a conscious observation. Otherwise, under normal conditions, their existence is not clear.”

Science now confirms that things often happen as we think or hope they will. Laboratory experiments demonstrate that negative thinking can produce biochemical changes and even disease in our bodies. In reality, people who think they can accomplish something if they put their mind to it can indeed accomplish it. People who think they are healthy do live longer than others.

We believe that a positive life based on philanthropic ideals of consideration for others, friendship, benevolence, altruism, and virtue is considerably more enjoyable and wholesome than using negative energy in order to accomplish things. We believe it to be ultimately rewarding to be able to help others while refining one’s own mental self-discipline in furtherance of precision and subtlety in communication.

We believe that exploring the heart of words, nurturing a strong sense of ethics, and the practice of philanthropic discipline are corporate assets that must be cherished in our mission as language specialists, interpreters and translators.