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REMINDER: The deadline for the 2019 Kyoko Selden Memorial Translation Prize competition is soon approaching. Translations should be submitted by the deadline of August 1, 2019. The 2018 prizes were awarded to Dawn Lawson for Nakajima Shōen’s A Famous Flower in Mountain Seclusion (Sankan no meika, 1889) and to Max Zimmerman for the short story, “An Artificial Heart” (Jinkō Shinzō, 1936) by Kosakai Fuboku. For further information please see the Cornell Asian Studies Department website.

Articles by Roger Pulvers

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Author, playwright, theatre director and translator, Roger graduated UCLA in political science before getting his MA in Russian Area Studies at Harvard. He has published 36 books in English and Japanese, including novels, plays, essays and translations from Japanese, Russian and Polish and his autobiography, "The Unmaking of an American". He is currently head of the Center for the Study of World Civilizations at Tokyo Institute of Technology. His website is accessible through this link. He is a Japan Focus Associate.

The Unmaking of an American

'Do we have peace now?' poem by Okinawa teen Chinen Masaru

In the Woods with Takuboku and Kenji -- Soul Brothers of Meiji Japan

Illusions of Self: The Life and Poetry of Ishikawa Takuboku

The Life and Death of Lafcadio Hearn: A 110-year perspective

Miyazawa Kenji’s Prophetic Green Vision: Japan’s Great Writer/Poet on the 80th Anniversary of His Death 80

Architect Kuma Kengo: ‘a product of place’

Tohoku Has Been Rent Asunder for Future Generations

Beate Sirota Gordon: An American to whom Japan remains indebted

Night on the Milky Way Train: Miyazawa Kenji’s Space Odyssey−−

John Junkerman and Roger Pulvers

Remembering Victims of Agent Orange in the Shadow of 9/11９１１

Two Generations of Japanese and Japanese American Artists: Activism, Racism and the American Experience−−

Murakami, the No-Nuclear Principles, Nuclear Power and the Bomb

Dazai Osamu and Roger Pulvers

The Dream of Lafcadio Hearn

Jane Marie Law, Miyazawa Kenji and Roger Pulvers

Indra’s Net: The Spiritual Universe of Miyazawa Kenji

A Dialogue With The Japanese People--The Life and Work of Inoue Hisashi−−

Yosano Akiko and Roger Pulvers

Yesterday Is Another World. Tanka by Yosano Akiko

Suite Slaughter: Inoue Hisashi's play on the life and death of Kobayashi Takiji

Japan as a Nation of Animal Lovers -- As Pets Or When They're On a Plate

Homage to the Life and Poetry of Miyazawa Kenji

Inoue Hisashi and Roger Pulvers

My Friend Frois

Japan's Wild Scientific Genius: Minakata Kumagusu

Half . . . or Hana's Story

Ghosts of Christmas Past: The Christmas Bombing of Vietnam

Sugihara Chiune and the Japanese Conscience: Lest we forget

"A Freedom That Rocks the Boat": Yoji Sakate's Small Theater

The Human Condition after Hiroshima: The world of Inoue Hisashi

So, fat cats and a blue caterpillar will save Japan from nuclear hell. OK

The Lessons of the 3.11 Meltdown for Japanese Nuclear Power: Citizenship Vs. A Corporate Culture of Collusion3.11−−