Robert Campbell

Japanese literature scholar. University professor at Waseda University. Born in New York. Graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, and received his doctorate in Japanese literature from Harvard University. Previously worked as a professor at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Tokyo, and director-general of the National Institute of Japanese Literature. Works include Inoue Yōsui eiyaku kashū (Collected English Translations of the Lyrics of Inoue Yōsui). Edited Nihon koten to kansenshō (Japanese Classics in a Time of Contagion) and Tōkyō hyakunen monogatari (Stories from a Tokyo Century).