(1928 – 2 January 2018) was a Japanese researcher in the areas of

translation studies Translation studies is an academic interdiscipline dealing with the systematic study of the theory, description and application of translation, interpreting, and localization. As an interdiscipline, translation studies borrows much from the vari ...

and

comparative literature Comparative literature studies is an academic field dealing with the study of literature and cultural expression across language, linguistic, national, geographic, and discipline, disciplinary boundaries. Comparative literature "performs a role ...

. He was born in Tokyo and graduated from the

University of Tokyo The University of Tokyo (, abbreviated as in Japanese and UTokyo in English) is a public research university in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. Founded in 1877 as the nation's first modern university by the merger of several pre-westernisation era ins ...

Works

* Honnyakugo Seiritsu Jijou ��訳語成立事情(1982), Iwanami Shinsho

External links

Recent work by Akira Yanabu

1928 births 2018 deaths Academics from Tokyo Translation scholars University of Tokyo alumni Writers from Tokyo {{Japan-academic-bio-stub