心に届く言葉で
ブランドを日本へ
日本を世界へ

Aiko Kawahata was born in Tokyo. She grew up listening to CDs in many different languages. Her mother, an English teacher, and her father, an engineer, were both involved in translation. She studied English and Spanish at a foreign-language high school, then English and the philosophy of science at International Christian University, including a study-abroad program at the University of California.

She began her career in 2001 in software localization at an IT company, handling medical software manuals, glossaries, technical writing and quality assurance. From 2007, she worked in-house as a translator and translation project manager for a global cosmetics company, a semiconductor trading company, a dance school (where she also interpreted ballet workshops) and an international logistics company.

Independent as a freelance translator since 2021, she is a long-term project member on recurring accounts, including ad copy for a global IT company, cybersecurity marketing, and marketing for a luxury brand. Her work covers transcreation, SEO translation, software and website localization, language quality evaluation and in-context review, with more than two million words translated.

From 2024 to 2026, she lived and worked in Utrecht, the Netherlands, collaborating with teams in Europe, Africa, Asia and the Americas. Through her daughter's local daycare, Dutch primary school and international school, she learned every day how to communicate across languages and cultures.

Outside work, she has danced contemporary and ballet for 20 years, since university.