Yuko Wada is a Japanese translator whose work covers design, art, and food culture. She graduated from Waseda University’s School of Social Sciences, worked in design and advertising book editing and corporate translation, and became a freelance English translator in 2002. Her translation of “The Sartorialist: Man” brings together clothing knowledge and street photography. In “Anime Architecture,” she translated an examination of the backgrounds and production processes of Japanese animated films. She also co-translated DK’s illustrated history of divination, published in Japanese as “Senjutsu no Sho.” Drawing on her editorial background, Wada works on books in which visual material and explanatory writing are closely integrated.
