was a Japanese

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Polish literature Polish literature is the literary tradition of Poland. Most Polish literature has been written in the Polish language, though other languages used in Poland over the centuries have also contributed to Polish literary traditions, including Latin, ...

, and a

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at 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 ...

Work

Shozo translated, into the

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, classical and contemporary works by Polish writers, including

Henryk Sienkiewicz Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Sienkiewicz ( , ; 5 May 1846 – 15 November 1916), also known by the pseudonym Litwos (), was a Polish epic writer. He is remembered for his historical novels, such as The Trilogy, the Trilogy series and especially ...

Jerzy Andrzejewski Jerzy Andrzejewski (; 19 August 1909 – 19 April 1983) was a prolific Polish writer. His works confront controversial moral issues such as betrayal, the Jews and Auschwitz in the wartime. His novels, ''Ashes and Diamonds'' (about the immediate ...

, Jerzy Broszkiewicz and

Stanisław Lem Stanisław Herman Lem (; 12 September 1921 – 27 March 2006) was a Polish writer. He was the author of many novels, short stories, and essays on various subjects, including philosophy, futurology, and literary criticism. Many of his science fi ...

. Yoshigami was also author of: * ''Porando-gono nyumon'' (Introduction to

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), with Kimura Shoichi; and * ''Hyojun porando kaiwa'' (Polish phrasebook), with Henryk Lipszyc.

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Interview with Henryk Lipszyc
at Gazeta Polska w Japonii 1928 births 1996 deaths Polish–Japanese translators 20th-century Japanese translators Deaths from fire in Japan Academic staff of the University of Tokyo {{Japan-writer-stub