Japanese Translation Review Team

Name: Sachiko Morikawa

District: 14

Primary Club: Crescent Lunch Toastmasters Club

Year joined: 2011

Highest position held: Area Director

Education awards earned: DTM

What is your area of expertise? Education, translation, and interpretation

How does your professional experience relate to your role as Chief Reviewer?
I teach Japanese people English, and I also teach Japanese as a foreign language. My goal is to help my students feel more comfortable communicating with people from different backgrounds and speaking in public. In addition, I'm a Japanese-English interpreter and translator. I also work as a workshop lecturer for global leadership and a facilitator for cross-cultural exchange programs. To improve my professional skills, I always explore how different languages, cultures, and mindsets influence us, which I believe helps me enhance the quality of Toastmasters' translated materials.

What do you like most about being a translation reviewer?
Reading Toastmasters Pathways helps me to see my life from different perspectives, find solutions to problems, and overcome self-doubt. It inspires me to get out of my comfort zone and enjoy unlimited self-growth. Furthermore, it enables me to improve my ability to help my students and my proteges both learn and give public speeches and foster their global leadership and communication skills. Likewise, I believe my effort as a translation reviewer helps many people maximize their potential and live life to the fullest.