People | 20 QUESTIONS Aug 9, 2014
"Sometimes people take themselves too seriously and, in reality, we invent our own characters. Who we are changes with time."
National Sep 21, 2013
A new museum built in honor of Donald Keene, a prominent U.S.-born scholar of Japanese literature, was opened to reporters Friday in Kashiwazaki, Niigata Prefecture, prior to its public unveiling Saturday. At a news conference at the Donald Keene Center Kashiwazaki, Keene, 91, said: "I ...
National / History | THE LIVING PAST Jul 27, 2013
What if Columbus had reached his goal, Japan?
by Michael Hoffman
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 ...
National May 1, 2013
Prominent Japanologist Donald Keene has adopted shamisen player Seiki Uehara, 62, as his son, the aging scholar reveals in a talk in Niigata.
National Mar 9, 2012
Prominent literature scholar and Japan expert Donald Keene has been granted Japanese citizenship, according to the government gazette issued Thursday. Keene, 89, professor emeritus at Columbia University in New York, was awarded the Japanese Order of Culture in 2008. Since Keene was already spending half of ...
National Apr 17, 2011
Donald Keene, a prominent scholar of Japanese literature at Columbia University, has decided to move permanently to Japan after he delivers his final lecture at the university later this month, sources close to him have said. The 88-year-old professor emeritus has started the process of ...
People | CLOSE-UP Sep 6, 2009
Donald Keene: A life lived true to the words
by Eriko Arita
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. Now aged 87, the Professor Emeritus of Columbia University in New York has published around 25 books in English, comprising ...