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Resume of ROBERT A. JUHL

Tokyo, Japan and Penang, Malaysia

Positions

• Free-lance translator and writer based in Penang, Malaysia and Tokyo
  
• 1991-2004 President, J-Comm. Ltd. (Fujisawa and Tokyo, Japan): Translation (J->E), copywriting, and web content
• 1988-1990: Director and Head Editor of a Tokyo PR agency
• 1983-1987: Chief Writer of a Tokyo PR agency
• 1980-1983: Vice-President of US PR boutique
• 1972-1979: Ass't. Professor of Chinese, taught and conducted research at the University of California-Berkeley and other academic institutions
• 1972: Received Ph.D. in Chinese at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Translation/copywriting:

• General Business: clients have included leading automakers, the EU, leading banks, and major Japanese PR and ad agencies
• Copywriting: press releases for a leading US beverage firm, US export agencies; advertising for leading European automakers
• Speeches: for top executives of leading Japanese automakers and industry associations
• Financial: translations of business reports on Japanese firms for investment banks; writing of annual reports for countless firms; translation of contracts
• Semi-technical: translations of computer-, agriculture-, and medical-related topics
• News and commentary: over 80 articles and commentaries on Japan for the Tokyo Kaleidoscoop web newspaper. A partial list of my articles and commentaries for Tokyo Kaleidoscoop is here. 

Some Publications

• Juhl, Robert A. "Phonological evolution of the Chinese rhymes: Wei to Liang," Journal of the American Oriental Society 94:4 (1974)
• Juhl, Robert A. "The literary dialect of Xie Zhuang," Journal of Chinese Linguistics 3:2-3 (1975)
• Juhl, Robert A. "The literary dialect of Tao Qian," Journal of Chinese Linguistics 4:1 (1976)
• Juhl, Robert A. "The literary dialect of Liang Yuan Di," Journal of Chinese Linguistics 5:1 (1977)
  
• Juhl, R.A., Chinese romanization self-study guide and Introduction to Chinese pronunciation and the pinyin romanization, Journal of Chinese Language Teacher's Association, 1977.12.2.175
• Juhl, R.A., Le probleme linguistique prepositions et la solution Chinoise (Avec un `essai de typologie a travers plusieurs groupes de langues), Journal of Chinese Language Teacher's Association, 1976.11.3.225
• Juhl, R.A., Patterns of assonance and vowel melody in Wang Wei's Yueh-fu poems, Journal of Chinese Language Teacher's Association, 1977.12.2.95
  [in Japanese]
• ロバート・A.・ジュール：唐代の母音変遷と声調の関係についてー唐代の母音が併合する時には、声調が母音の音質に影響することにかんする報 告、アジア・アフリカ語の計数研究、第十号、昭和５４年３月、国立共同利 用研、アジア・アフリカ言語文化研究所、辞典編纂プロジェクト
  (Juhl, Robert A. "On the mutual relationship between the vowels and tones of T'ang Chinese," Computational Analyses of Asian & African Languages, No. 10, (1979), Project on Lexicological Analysis, National Inter-university Research Institute of Asian & African Languages & Cultures, Tokyo, Japan)
• 朱樂本 (R. Juhl)：唐代元音演變與聲調的關係： 報告唐代元音在合併的時候聲調會影響元音的音質, private printing, Taipei, 1977 (Chinese version of the preceeding article in Japanese)
  
• Juhl, Robert A.: "Tonal influence on vowel merger," Journal of Chinese Linguistics, Volume 8, Number 2 (1980)
• Juhl, Robert A.: "Some North-South Dialect Differences During Late Six Dynasties times," Wen-Lin, Studies in the Chinese Humanities, Vol. II, The University of Wisconsin Press and N.T.T. Chinese Language Research Centre, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (1989, republished 2001)
• Juhl, Robert: "The Goddess, the Dragon, and the Island," August 2003
• "Parallels between the Celestial and Terrestrial Phenomena at Enoshima and Meteor- and Comet-related Phenomena Associated with the Sarasvati River of Ancient India," March 2006
• "Unusual Celestial and Terrestrial Phenomena in Japan in 552 and Their Parallels with Meteor- and Comet-related Phenomena Associated with the Sarasvati River Of Ancient India", Presentation at "The 30th Symposium on Antarctic Meteorites," National Institute of Polar Research, Tokyo, Japan, 6-8 June, 2006.
  
• "Documentary Evidence for the Apparition of a Comet in Late 593 and Early 594 AD," print-only abstract at the 38th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Lunar and Planetary Institute, 2007. Note: Clicking on the link will download a .pdf file of the four abstracts in the Comets and Kuiper Belt Objects section of the conference.