... difference emerged from Japanese efforts to learn North American approaches to nature: in “nature” people imagined shared concerns of human nature and the natural environment, but their understandings of nature differed tremendously. Nature in translation concerns not only superficial differences of cultural...

... This chapter discusses the later life trajectories of the tour guides up until 2013 and their ongoing struggles with work, freedom, and subjectivity as they continue or end their work translating nature for Japanese tourists. The guides maintain an ambivalent relationship with these ideas as...