Andrew Jones has been active in the translation industry since 1983, when he began translating Chinese newspapers (on a typewriter) for the Joint US Publications Research Service. After a 14 year stay in Japan working as a translator for Mazda Motor Corp (going from pencil and paper to primitive memory systems), Andrew returned to the United States, where he now heads translation and documentation at Nikon Precision Inc. (using web-based, API-linked tools). His outside interest is classical Japanese maritime nomenclature.