Introduction: Shakespeare in Modern Japan

Obtained her D.Phil. in literature from Keio University in 1997 and taught as Professor of English at Faculty of Foreign Languages and Graduate School of Kyorin University. She is the author of Calendar of English Renaissance Drama 1558-1642 (New York：Garland, 1986), Shakespeare and Cultural Exchange (1995), Shakespeare’s Idea of Time (1998) and Shakespeare’s World (2007). She is the editor of Shakespeare Worldwide and Japanese Studies in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries (Associated UP, 1998), and one of the editors in chief of Multicultural Shakespeare. Her publications include “Gender, Class, and Race in Japanese translations of Shakespeare” in Shakespeare and the Twentieth Century (Associated UP, 1998) and “Rewriting Shakespeare in a Japanese Context for the Page and the Stage” in Shakespeare’s World/World Shakespeares (Associated UP, 2008).