KAWAMURA MINATO

(1951–)

Kawamura Minato is a literary critic and professor of international culture at Hosei University. He began his literary career by winning the Gunzo Newcomer Prize in 1980. He started out writing on ancient and modern Japanese literature, but has expanded his focus to include Korean literature and culture. His leftist leanings sometimes put him at odds with major critics. He published the study Nan’yo Karafuto no Nihon bungaku (Japanese Literature of the South Sea Islands and Sakhalin, 1994).