Hiroaki Sato

Hiroaki Sato: Hiroaki Sato is a prize-winning translator of classical and modern Japanese poetry into English. He has also translated Mishima’s novel, Silk and Insight, and his dramas, My Friend Hitler and Other Plays. Since 2000 Sato has written a monthly Japan Times column, “The View from New York.” Since 1998, he has been an adjunct at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.