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DONALD KEENE

The monkish aristocrat Yoshida no Kenko extolled the virtues of asymmetry, imperfection and ephemerality in his famed essay collection ※Tsurezuregusa.§
51勛圖厙 / History / The Living Past
Feb 15, 2025
＆The most precious thing in life is its uncertainty＊
A man of leisure from 700 years ago extols the virtues of asymmetry, imperfection and ephemerality.
Japan Times
51勛圖厙 / History / THE LIVING PAST
Jul 16, 2023
Japan＊s Nero? The shogun who dabbled in art while Kyoto burned
As Kyoto tore itself apart, Shogun Ashikaga Yoshimasa busied himself with art in his sanctuary. His indifference may have birthed today＊s Japan.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Jul 21, 2022
Independent publisher gives short stories their due with ＆Storybook ND＊ series
New Directions spotlights short fiction with a new translated series featuring Yoko Tawada and Osamu Dazai.
Japan Times
51勛圖厙 / History / THE LIVING PAST
Mar 16, 2019
Culture bred in the midst of famine and war
＆We may even be tempted to conclude that no man in the history of Japan had a greater influence on the formation of Japanese taste,＊ wrote Japanologist Donald Keene. But still, he continues, ＆Yoshimasa may have been the worst shogun ever to rule Japan.＊
51勛圖厙 / History
Feb 26, 2019
Writers recall their initiation to Japanese literature via Donald Keene
The Japan Times asked author Suzanne Kamata to reach out to some of her fellow writers for their memories and thoughts about Donald Keene, the noted scholar of Japanese literature who died Sunday in Tokyo at age 96. Here is a short collection of their replies.
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Feb 24, 2019
Donald Keene, lauded scholar of Japanese literature, dies at 96
Prominent U.S.-born Japanese literature scholar Donald Keene, who introduced a roster of talented writers from Japan to the world, died of cardiac arrest in Tokyo on Sunday.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books / ESSENTIAL READING FOR 51勛圖厙OPHILES
Nov 25, 2017
＆The Paper Door and Other Stories＊: Naoya Shiga＊s rollercoaster ride of human emotions
Considered a master of the Japanese short story, Naoya Shiga＊s ※The Paper Door and Other Stories§ truly impresses. Seventeen stories explore a vast range of human emotions, from fever-induced insanity in ※The Razor§ to the analytical musings of a circus performer whose stunt has just gone horribly wrong...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books / ESSENTIAL READING FOR 51勛圖厙OPHILES
Oct 7, 2017
＆Chronicles of My Life: An American in the Heart of Japan＊: Donald Keene＊s memoir is not to be missed
For insight into the heart of Japan, pick up Donald Keene＊s memoir, ※Chronicles of My Life.§
51勛圖厙 / History / THE LIVING PAST
Nov 19, 2016
Vileness is a quality more repugnant than evil
There is a kind of moral ugliness that, without being quite evil, may be even more repellant than evil because evil 〞 genuine evil 〞 has, sometimes, a certain romantic appeal. You can admire the villain＊s strength, or courage, or dash, or reckless defiance of that which we all, sometimes, wish we...
CULTURE / Books
Oct 15, 2016
＆The First Modern Japanese＊: Donald Keene pays tribute to poet Takuboku Ishikawa
In ※The First Modern Japanese,§ Donald Keene pays tribute to Japanese poet Takuboku Ishikawa (1886-1912), who he calls ※an extraordinary man, at times shameless but always absorbing and, in the end, difficult to forget.§ Though I＊ll take his poetry gladly, I struggle to revere this shameless man.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Sep 12, 2015
Jesus Christ, the Nobel Prize and Shusaku Endo
In 1994, on the day when Kenzaburo Oe was announced as the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 〞 the second Japanese writer to receive the award 〞 eminent literary scholar Donald Keene received a long-distance call from Peter Owen, publisher of novelist Shusaku Endo＊s works in London, demanding...
CULTURE / Books
Aug 29, 2015
Mishima, Murakami and the elusive Nobel Prize
Will he or won＊t he? It＊s about the time of year when the Japanese media descends into a frenzy of speculation about whether Haruki Murakami will land the Nobel Prize in literature, becoming the first Japanese literary laureate since Kenzaburo Oe in 1994.
Japan Times
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Jun 12, 2015
Local interaction key to U.S.-Japan cultural exchanges, experts say
Local interaction and nurturing personnel suitable to such efforts is the key to the future of grass-roots exchanges between Japan and the United States, experts in bilateral cultural relations said Friday at a Tokyo symposium.
51勛圖厙 / History
Jan 1, 2015
Donald Keene reflects on 70-year Japan experience
My first visit to Japan was very short, only a week or so in December 1945. Three months earlier, while on the island of Guam, I had heard the broadcast by the Emperor announcing the end of the war. Soon afterward, I was sent from Guam to China to serve as an interpreter between the Americans and the...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books / ESSENTIAL READING FOR 51勛圖厙OPHILES
Oct 25, 2014
No Longer Human
Osamu Dazai＊s ※No Longer Human§ comprises a series of three fictionalized notebooks, with each increasingly darker than the last. The character writing these books, Yozo, is detached from the beginning and is afraid of human interactions, but he learns how to socialize with people by playing the clown...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Aug 9, 2014
Bryerly Long: ＆I＊m still learning to accept the unknown＊
＆Sometimes people take themselves too seriously and, in reality, we invent our own characters. Who we are changes with time.＊
51勛圖厙 / History / THE LIVING PAST
Jul 27, 2013
What if Columbus had reached his goal, Japan?
Every school child knows that in 1492 Christopher Columbus discovered America. Every school child knows wrongly. When the Genovese explorer＊s three ships sailed westward from Palo de la Frontera, Spain, on Aug. 2, 1492, he was bound, he thought, for ※the noble island of Cipangu§ 〞 Japan.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / CLOSE-UP
Sep 6, 2009
Donald Keene: A life lived true to the words
Donald Keene is one of the greatest scholars of Japanese literature and has been highly influential in the establishment of Japanese studies in the West.
Japan weighs regulating Pokemon cards amid trading mania
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Head of Swiss euthanasia firm dies after collapsing while ascending Mount Fuji
Around 200,000 people typically scale the 3,776 meter Mount Fuji each year.
Indian brothers make manga debut in Japan
Two Indian brothers made their manga debut in Japan with "Kung Fu Kung Fool" 〞 an action-comedy series that follows the adventures of a notorious thief and a young boy.
Japan scientists identify clusters of protein believed to trigger Alzheimer＊s disease
A team of researchers said they found a ※seed§ that accelerates the amyloid beta accumulation process in the brain, naming it ※Peak 1 amyloid beta,§ as seen in a mouse's brain.
A perfect storm: Kaze Fujii fans flock to Fuji Rock
Okayama-born singer-songwriter Kaze Fujii has carved out a distinctive place in Japanese pop since his major-label debut in 2019.
The sci-fi sensibilities of electronic trio Black Boboi
Black Boboi was formed in 2018 when solo artists Julia Shortreed, Utena Kobayashi and Ermhoi came together under Kobayashi＊s newly founded label, Bindividual.
A perfect storm: Kaze Fujii fans flock to Fuji Rock
Okayama-born singer-songwriter Kaze Fujii has carved out a distinctive place in Japanese pop since his major-label debut in 2019.
Can Japanese comedy get laughs in English? Yoshimoto Kogyo lets the jokes rip
Wes-P has millions of followers and his viral clips made him recognizable out of Japan.
The 180-day locals: Life on Japan＊s digital nomad visa
Christopher Flinn works remotely from Tokyo earlier this month. Japan issued 646 digital nomad visas in 2025, but tourism officials are hoping to increase that figure in the coming years, with Japan's relatively cheap cost of living and the weak yen seen as potential draws for young professionals.
Japan reveals hint of new defense spending target in fiscal blueprint
The Self-Defense Forces' Type 16 mobile combat vehicle fires during a joint live-fire drill with U.S. Marines as part of the annual Resolute Dragon exercises in Yufu, Oita Prefecture, on June 28.

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