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Other LaFerlas: The LaFerla Lab (Frank LaFerla, University of California, Irvine, Institute for Brain Aging and Dementia) | Laferla Insurance Agency | LaFerla Family Eyecare | Orthodontist Michael R. Laferla | The New York Times fashion writer Ruth La Ferla | ... and more LaFerlas ... and more LaFerlas... Contact me if you're a LaFerla and want to be linked here. Other Lawrences, Laurences and Larrys: Lawrence Eagle Tribune , N. Andover, MA | Lawrence of Arabia | Lawrence Welk | Lawrence University, Appleton, WI | Larry Fishburne | ... and various famous guys named Larry and Lawrence My cousin, Nina LaFerla, is also involved and translation and also lives in Asia. |
WIP has helped me develop my own way of endeavoring in business. For this, I owe a continuing debt of gratitude to Yoshio Fukushima, the president, and Shin'ichiro Daikoku, the office administrator in Osaka and my close friend. Related to JAPANtranslation, I serve as blogger in chief at Marketing on the Japanese web: A blog about Japanese translation, international copywriting, copy adaptation transcreation, etc. Emphasis is on multicultural marketing. We're happy to feature "trans-disciplinary," expert guest contributors such as Jonathan Finer (Co-founder, Principal, Cloverleaf Innovation) and Hannah Smalltree (senior editor of SearchDataManagement.com). Prior to JAPANtranslation, I was the lead project manager at Webproject.jp, a now defunct localization consultancy. I still dabble in web work. Recently advised my brother John LaFerla on his web copy. I've been living in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, for over 16 years. Into cycling and yoga. Mostly waste a lot of time on the web. Gotta break that addiction! My degree (magna cum laude... woohoo!) from University of Massachusetts was in organization studies. My research was focused mostly on work cultures -- the anthropology of work life in modern corporations in Sweden, Japan and the USA. Took night classes before that at B.U. and Harvard. I was a Boston rocker in the 1970s/80s. My band 007 (Dub7) didn't ever release an album, but was well known and regarded in New England as a live act opening for big names in punk, ska and reggae. We opened for The Clash, Peter Tosh, The Specials, Joan Jett, Jim Carroll, Bad Brains, and, erm, I dunno... the list goes on. Of course we played with a wide variety of Boston bands, too -- from The Proletariat to Lou Miami and The Cosmetix, from The Del Fuegos to til tuesday. Yeah, really varied. There are so many local scenesters from the 80s to whom I'd like to say "hi." Not enough time here, at the moment, to name 'em all. Major THANK YOU to Steve Harrell for having exerted more than his share of effort to make 007 happen. Also, I've just reconnected with Garry Miles, who was drummer in every band I was in Nowadays, decades after my rock and roll days, the most common question I get is: "Are you still playing music/guitar?" My recurrent answer: Erm, not really. I have a couple of guitars. Hardly ever tune them, let alone play them. I've reverted to being a music fan. That's really what I always was, anyway. Maybe if anyone reading cares to ask questions I'll have to make an FAQ. Hehe. Ways to contact me If you need to contact me urgently, better use this form. If we've met in the real world, and you know me, add me as a friend on Facebook. If you know me only from the web and/or from work, how about connecting on LinkedIn or Twitter? I'm following many translation industry friends on Twitter. Feel free to follow me there if you're involved in translation, copywriting, transcreation, localization, etc. |
