John Nathan Author & Translator

John Nathan is Koichi Takashima Professor of Japanese Cultural Studies Emeritus at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Mishima: A Biography (1974) and Sony: The Private Life (1999), among other titles. He is the translator of Sōseki’s last novel, Light and Dark (Columbia, 2014), as well as works by Yukio Mishima and Kenzaburō Ōe. Nathan is also an Emmy Award–winning filmmaker.