Person

Karashima, David James

1979

David Karashima is an assistant professor of creative writing at the School of International Liberal Studies, Waseda University. He has translated into English works [by numerous Japanese authors] and serves as international editor of Granta Japan. In 2008 he helped found the Read Japan initiative at the [controversial] Nippon Foundation, a partnership among authors, translators, editors, publishers, and universities to facilitate the publication of Japanese literature in translation.