How I Learned Japanese: The Freedom of the Non-Native Speaker

I took part in all kinds of local events during my year as a high school student in Himeji.

In front of the sculpture of Ōkuma Shigenobu at Waseda University

I acted as moderator and interpreter when Austrian writer Andreas Gruber visited Japan in March 2013 to mark the first Japanese translation of his novel “Rachesommer” (Summer of Revenge). On the left is Sakayori Shin’ichi, a Japanese translator of German literature.