Book excerpt: The academic discipline of translation studies is only half a century old and even younger in the field of bilateral translation between Japanese and Turkish. This book is the second volume of the world’s first academic book on Turkish↔Japanese translation. While this volume gathered discussions on translation studies with theoric and applied aspects, literature, linguistics, and philosophy, the second volume deals with the history of translation, philosophy, culture education, language education, and law. It also covers the translation of historical materials and divan poetry. These books will be the first steps to discuss and develop various aspects of the field. Such compilation brings together experienced and young Turkology and Japanology scholars as well as academics linked to translation studies and translation, and also translators. Both volumes contain 24 essays written by twenty-two writers from Japan, Turkey, USA and China. Special notes by Özlem BERK ALBACHTEN, Special notes by Nobuo MISAWA, Ryō MIYASHITA, Esin ESEN, Shingo YAMASHITA, Gülzemin ÖZRENK AYDIN, Iku NAGASHIMA, İbrahim Soner ÖZDEMİR, Sinan LEVENT, Barış KAHRAMAN, DeryaAKKUŞ SAKAUE, Yukiko KONDO, Okan Haluk AKBAY, Ayatemis DEPÇİ