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Mishima: A Biography
The Newest Samurai
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John Nathan
American translator, writer, filmmaker, and Japanologist
John Weil Nathan (born March ) is an American translator, writer, scholar, filmmaker, and Japanologist. His translations from Japanese into English include the works of Yukio Mishima, Kenzaburō Ōe, Kōbō Abe, and Natsume Sōseki.[4] Nathan is also an Emmy Award-winning producer, writer and director of several films about Japanese culture and society and American business. He is Professor Emeritus of Japanese Cultural Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.[5]
Early life
[edit]Nathan was born in New York City and spent part of his childhood in Tucson, Arizona.[6] He was born into a non-practicing Jewish family.[7] His father was a painter,[8] and his grandfather was a reporter at The Jewish Daily Forward.[9] In ,[10] Nathan graduated from Harvard College, where he studied under Edwin O. Reischauer.[11]
Career
[edit]The summer after graduation, he worked at Nomura Securities in New York. He moved to Japan directly after, teaching English as a second language to native Japanese speakers at a newly opened English conversation school in Tokyo that had been funded by the Ford Foundation. He was also hired t