Word: motoyuki
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...jazz and rock he absorbed as a student in Tokyo. Long before his self-imposed exile overseas, to avoid the crush of his celebrity in Japan, Murakami was an expatriate in his mind. "His work referenced not classic Japanese culture but pop culture, mainly from the U.S.," says Motoyuki Shibata, a professor of American literature at Tokyo University who has known Murakami for years. "He could create great literature with...
...takes a translator to know a translator, or at least so it seems in the case of author Haruki Murakami, Harvard Professor of Japanese Literature Jay Rubin, and visiting scholar and Professor of American Literature at the University of Tokyo Motoyuki Shibata. The three top professional translators are resident at the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies this academic year. And they’ve taken the opportunity to get together to talk about literature and translation and to collaborate. Thus far, Shibata has collaborated informally and formally on translations with Rubin and Murakami, who calls...
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