I'm now in the business of making books. I started out as a software developer, but a certain turn of events gave me an opportunity to work on book production. I'm grateful for that. There were plenty of challenges along the way, yet I put real effort into the work.
The books I've worked on are all technical, focused on software and programming. Most of my work involves translating or editing English-language texts, though I've also had a few opportunities to co-author some titles. Over time, the range of projects I've touched has grown.
Before I knew it, more than ten years had passed since I started working on books, and the number of books I had been involved with had grown to more than ten. So in this article, I decided to summarize the kinds of books I have worked on.
| Role | Date | Publisher | Edition | ⧉ | Title | Subtitle |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| co-translator | 2026/05 | O'Reilly Japan, Inc. | 1st | ⧉ | LLMOps | 本番環境における大規模言語モデル運用ガイド |
| co-translator | 2026/01 | O'Reilly Japan, Inc. | 1st | ⧉ | 生成AI時代のソフトウェア開発 | ツールを賢く選択、評価、活用し、より速く効率的な開発を進めるために |
| co-translator | 2025/09 | O'Reilly Japan, Inc. | 1st | ⧉ | 初めてのLangChain | LangChainとLangGraphによるAI/LLMアプリケーションの構築 |
| co-translator | 2025/06 | O'Reilly Japan, Inc. | 3rd | ⧉ | PythonによるWebスクレイピング | |
| co-translator | 2024/09 | O'Reilly Japan, Inc. | 1st | ⧉ | ハイパーモダンPython | 信頼性の高いワークフローを構築するモダンテクニック |
| co-author | 2023/10 | O'Reilly Japan, Inc. | 1st | ⧉ | Pythonではじめるオープンエンドな進化的アルゴリズム | 発散型の機械学習による多様な解の探索 |
| co-translator | 2023/01 | O'Reilly Japan, Inc. | 1st | ⧉ | SQLではじめるデータ分析 | クエリで行う前処理、時系列解析、コホート分析、テキスト分析、異常検知 |
| translator | 2022/10 | O'Reilly Japan, Inc. | 1st | ⧉ | マイクロフロントエンド | マイクロサービスアーキテクチャの概念をフロントエンドに拡張し、信頼性、自律性の高いシステムを構築する |
| supervising translator | 2022/02 | O'Reilly Japan, Inc. | 2nd | ⧉ | SQLクックブック | データベースエキスパート、データサイエンティストのための実践レシピ集 |
| supervising translator | 2019/04 | O'Reilly Japan, Inc. | 1st | ⧉ | Head First はじめてのプログラミング | 頭とからだで覚えるPythonプログラミング入門 |
| technical reviewer | 2019/03 | O'Reilly Japan, Inc. | 2nd | ⧉ | PythonによるWebスクレイピング | |
| co-translator1 | 2018/01 | O'Reilly Japan, Inc. | 7th | ⧉ | はじめてのPerl | |
| supervising translator | 2018/03 | O'Reilly Japan, Inc. | 2nd | ⧉ | Head First Python | 頭とからだで覚えるPythonの基本 |
| supervising translator | 2017/08 | O'Reilly Japan, Inc. | 1st | ⧉ | PythonとJavaScriptではじめるデータビジュアライゼーション | |
| technical reviewer | 2017/04 | O'Reilly Japan, Inc. | 1st | ⧉ | Pythonではじめるデータラングリング | データの入手、準備、分析、プレゼンテーション |
| co-author | 2017/09 | Gijutsu-Hyoron Co., Ltd. | 1st2 | ⧉ | Pythonエンジニアファーストブック | |
| technical reviewer | 2016/03 | O'Reilly Japan, Inc. | 1st | ⧉ | PythonによるWebスクレイピング | |
| co-author | 2015/06 | Gijutsu-Hyoron Co., Ltd. | 1st | ⧉ | Pythonエンジニア養成読本 |
Considering that my first involvement in book work was in 2015, that means I've spent about ten years in the field and have worked on sixteen technical books.
I'm grateful to the readers, the publishers, and everyone involved in book production, as well as the people around me who supported me along the way. I'm truly thankful.
I also feel a sense of accomplishment in looking back and seeing what I've done, and organizing it in this way makes me feel that I'm gradually building a track record.
Sometimes I find books with my name on them on the shelves of large libraries or bookstores, and moments like that make me feel very proud.
Back when I didn't have much money, I often went to the library and borrowed technical books and other specialized books. The books in libraries were often a little old, but for me at that time they were a precious source of information, and I learned from them. Now that the internet is so readily accessible, there may be fewer people who do that. Even so, I am happy to think that I might be helping someone somewhere in Japan who is like the person I was back then.
I simply like computers and programming, so I want to know more about technology and keep learning. And I hope I can help people who feel the same way.
After a book is published, I sometimes receive harsh feedback. I listen to those opinions and will continue to strive to produce good books.