Matt Alt

Vice President of AltJapan. A native of Washington D.C. Matthew has been working as a professional translator and freelance writer since the early 1990s. His translation experience includes four years as an inhouse technical Japanese translator for the United States Patent and Trademark Office. He is the coauthor of numerous books about Japan and a contributor to CNN Wired Magazine Slate Magazine the Independent Newsweek Japan the Japan Times the New Yorker and many other publications. His book Pure Invention: How Japans Pop Culture Conquered the World was published by Crown in 2020. Websitehttps://www.mattalt.com/ Twitterhttps://twitter.com/MattAlt