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Profile

(as of October 2023)

Personal Data

  • Name: Kentaro HOSHINO
  • Address: Krefelder Str. 11, 40549 Duesseldorf, Germany
  • Nationality: Japan
  • Professional experience: 5 years as a freelancer, 19 years as part of job
  • Mother tongues: Japanese and German
  • Focal areas: IT, engineering, economics, gastronomy
  • Member of the Federal Association of Interpreters and Translators (BDÜ)BDÜ-Logo

Qualifications

  • Certified Japanese interpreter
    (Hessian Techer Academy)
  • Certified Japanese translator
    (Hessian Techer Academy)
  • Authorized Japanese translator
    (Higher Regional Court of Duesseldorf)
  • Associate Engineer (data science), state-recognised training
    (Siemens AG)

Interpreting projects (excerpt)

  •  Accompaniment of a national research institute delegation
    (Photovoltaics, JAP-GER, consecutive)
  • Audit of German subsidiary by Japanese parent company
    (Industrial material, JAP-GER-ENG, consecutive)
  • Courtesy Visit in combination with technical negotiations
    (Work vehicles, JAP-GER-ENG, consecutive)
  • International exchange meeting
    (University co-ops, JAP-GER-ENG, consecutive)
  • Accompaniment to a trade fair
    (Medical technology, JAP-GER-ENG, consecutive)
  • Inter-ministerial meeting
    (Youth exchange, JAP-GER-ENG, consecutive)
  • Technical negotiations
    (Industrial imaging equipment, JAP-GER, consecutive)
  • Delivery negotiations
    (Work vehicles, JAP-ENG, consecutive)
  • Board level meeting
    (Casting technology, JAP-GER, consecutive)
  • Approval procedure
    (Storage of hazardous materials, JAP-ENG, consecutive)
  • Industry meeting
    (Hydrogen technology, GER-JAP, simultaneous)
  • Industry meeting
    (Automotive technology, ENG-JAP, simultaneous)
  • Sports trial
    (Legal affairs, JAP-GER, consecutive)

Translation projects (excerpt)

  • Annual reports of a TOPIX Prime listed company
    (certified JAP-GER translations)
  • Patent decision about semiconductor manufacturing
    (certified JAP-GER translation)
  • Toxicity Study according to OECD-Guidelines
    (certified JAP-GER translation)
  • Report of the Data Ethics Committee
    (member of GER-JAP translation project)
  • National Industrial Strategy 2030
    (member of GER-JAP translation project)
  • Coalition contract 2021-2025
    (member of GER-JAP translation project)
  • Operating manuals for industrial equipment
    (GER-ENG-JAP translations)