CLOSE-UP

People | CLOSE-UP Mar 6, 2011

Tadao Sato: 'Japan's single finest film critic'

by Edan Corkill

Tadao Sato laughed an embarrassed laugh as he recalled that three years ago, in London, he had been referred to as a "legend." Though adding to his discomfort, I had to admit that in my university days I had thought of him in the ...

People | CLOSE-UP Feb 6, 2011

Yang Sok Gil: Writing about wrongs at home and abroad

by Eriko Arita

Yang Sok Gil is renowned for his novels describing, with remarkable humanity and humor, people's wanton desires and the problems they cause, often from the viewpoint of minorities in Japan or elsewhere. As a second-generation Korean resident of Japan, Yang was born in 1936 to ...