Bio
Makuto Oda is a novelist and peace activist. His first literary fame came with the 1961 bestseller Nan demo mite varo (I'll Look at Anything). He is also the author of Hiroshima, first translated into English as The Bomb and later republished as H.Donald Keene is Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature and University Professor Emeritus at Columbia University. He is the author of more than thirty books, most recently, Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852–1912 and Five Modern Japanese Novelists, both published by Columbia. He divides his time between Tokyo and New York City.Makoto Oda Books
The Breaking Jewel
Makoto Oda