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No. 45 Interview with Maeda Ippei, translator of Anshuu (Darkness) — Part 1
Juliet Kono's novel "Darkness" depicts a Hawaii-born second-generation Japanese-Ameri…
Ryusuke Kawai • Feb. 23, 2024
No. 44: Accepting all hardships—The world of the novel "Darkness"
Unique "Japanese Literature" For second- and third-generation Japanese American or Canadi…
Ryusuke Kawai • Feb. 9, 2024
Interpreting Lost in Translation 20 years later
I get it. I understand. Traveling to someplace you’ve never been, where the culture and langu…
Gil Asakawa • Nov. 30, 2023
Part 31 (Part 2): Interview with Nakahiro Iwata, translator of "Setsuko's Secret"
Read the first part >> The journey to publishing in Japanese --How did the Japanese version c…
Ryusuke Kawai • June 24, 2023
Part 31 (first half): Interview with Nakahiro Iwata, translator of "Setsuko's Secret"
The recently published Japanese translation of "Setsuko's Secret: Heart Mountain and the …
Ryusuke Kawai • June 23, 2023
Yukuo Uyehara – An Issei Academic in Wartime - Part 2
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The bombing of Pearl Harbor turned Professor Yukuo Uyehara’s life aro…
Jonathan van Harmelen • Oct. 27, 2022
Interview With Thomas Girst On New German Translation Of "No-No Boy"
Congratulations to author and cultural manager Thomas Girst for providing the literary and historic…
Frank Abe • July 12, 2019
Pictures and Poetry: Deepening the Connection to my Japanese Roots
Growing up Sansei in my part of California’s San Gabriel Valley meant you didn’t have t…
Nancy Matsumoto • Oct. 26, 2018
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Book review: New translation of "No-No Boy" by John Okada, translated by Ryusuke Kawai
Haruki Murakami, known as a translator as well as a novelist, believes that "translations have…
Yoko Yuhara • Feb. 17, 2017