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Hiroaki Sato is best known as an expert and prolific translator of Japanese poetry into English. For 44 years, however, his day job was in the research department of a large Japanese trade organization in New York, writing reports on various aspects of American society. These observations led Sato to provide regular columns, as well as book reviews, to two English-language newspapers in Japan from 1984-89 and from 2000-2017.This anthology of o...

One of the most spectacular vendettas ever: the history and haiku behind the mass-suicide featured in the 2013 film 47 Ronin.

No other Asian poetic form has so intrigued and beguiled the English-speaking world as the Japanese haiku. Even before World War I such imagist poets as Ezra Pound, Amy Lowell, and John Gould Fletcher were experimenting with the form. At that time, Pound well described the haiku as "an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time." Indeed, it is the haiku's sense of immediacy and its precision that continue to appeal to poets and p...

Various environmental issues are related to urban activities. Through the growing recognition of the necessity to develop sustainable urban mana- ment, the University of Tokyo established the Center for Sustainable Urban Regeneration (cSUR) in July 2003. A research program at the cSUR was designed to create an integrated approach and to provide knowledge for s- tainable urban regeneration with the aid of a global network of researchers and pro...

Over the decades the reputation of the samurai has grown to mythical proportions, owing to such films as Akira Kurosawa's "Seven Samurai" and "Yojimbo" as well as works such as James Clavell's epic "Shogun." In "Legends of the Samurai, " Hiroaki Sato confronts both the history and the legend of the samurai, untangling the two to present an authentic picture of these legendary warriors. Through his masterful translations of original samurai tal...

An anthology which presents examples of the work of more than 100 Japanese women poets, arranged chronologically. It describes the seasonal changes and the vagaries of love and also the devastations of war, childbirth, conflicts between child-rearing and work, experiences as refugees, experiences as non-Japanese residents in Japan, and more.

An anthology which presents examples of the work of more than 100 Japanese women poets, arranged chronologically. It describes the seasonal changes and the vagaries of love and also the devastations of war, childbirth, conflicts between child-rearing and work, experiences as refugees, experiences as non-Japanese residents in Japan, and more.