Part 1. Introduction and Keynote Speeches -- Chapter 1. Translation, Education, and Innovation: Editorial Introduction; David G.Hebert -- Chapter 2. From Shizen to Nature: A Process of Cultural Translation; Nanyan Guo -- Chapter 3. Life and Death of East Asian Intangible Cultural Heritage; Keith Howard -- Part 2. Translational Issues in Literature -- Chapter 4. Translating Scientific Discourse in Ariyoshi Sawako's Fukugo Osen; Barbara Hartley -- Chapter 5. Foreigner Talk or Foreignness: The Connection Between Foreigner Talk and the Language of Westerners in Japanese Fiction; Erik Oskarsson -- Chapter 6. Emotional Discourse Analysis: An Attempt at Contrastive Analysis of Japanese Literary Translations; Alexandra Holoborodko -- Part 3. Analyses of Korean and Japanese Languages -- Chapter 7. Definiteness in Korean: A Contrastive Study between Korean and Italian; Imsuk Jung -- Chapter 8. Unmarked Plurality and Specificity in Korean and Japanese Plural Nouns: A Preliminary Study; Kiri Lee, Young-mee Yu Cho, and Min-Young Park -- Chapter 9. A Creative and Innovative Approach to Korean Communicative Language: Morphonological Features and Word-Formation Processes; Vladislava Mazana -- Chapter 10. "My Funny Talk" Corpus and Speaking Style Variation in Spoken Japanese; Toshiyuki Sadanobu -- Chapter 11. Kansai Style Conversation and its Role in Contemporary Japan; Goran Vaage -- Chapter 12. The Interdisciplinary Study of Law and Language: Forensic Linguistics in Japan; Mami Hiraike Okawara -- Chapter 13. Linguistic Studies of Interpreters' Renditions and their Possible Contribution to the Quality Control of Community Interpreting: A Data-Based Study on Court Interpreting in Lay Judge Trials in Japan; Makiko Mizuno -- Part 4. Language Education -- Chapter 14. On the Teaching of Japanese Epistemic and Evidential Markers: Theoretical Considerations and Practical Applications; Lars Larm -- Chapter 15. Analysis of Kanji Reading and Writing Errors of Swedish Learners of Japanese in Comparison with Proficiency-Matched Japanese School Children; Fusae Ivarsson -- Part 5. Innovation and New Perspectives on Culture -- Chapter 16. "Green" and "Smart" Cities Diffusion: Case of Songdo IBD; Alexandra Licha -- Chapter 17. Japanese Culture: Seeing the World through the Indigenes' Eyes; Sachiko Shin Halley -- Part 6. The Arts in Innovative Societies -- Chapter 18. Bad Father and Good Mother: Changing Masculinity in the Post-Traumatic Japan; Shuk-ting Kinnia Yau -- Chapter 19. Performance, Process and Technique in the Dokyoku Style of Japanese Shakuhachi; Jonathan McCollum -- Chapter 20. Animals and Animal Aesthetics in Japanese Art Traditions and Japanese Society; Mika Merviö -- Chapter 21. Defense of Rules or Creative Innovation?: A Discussion on the Essence of the Topic Spring Rain in Japanese Haiku; Hebert Jonsson.