Hitomi Yoshio

Hitomi Yoshio is a scholar and translator of Japanese literature and a professor of Global Japanese Literary and Cultural Studies at Waseda University. She holds a Ph.D. in Japanese literature from Columbia University and specializes in modern and contemporary Japanese literature, with a focus on women's writing. She has translated Natsuko Imamura's This Is Amiko, Do You Copy? and, with Laurel Taylor, co-translated Mieko Kawakami's Ashes of Spring and Sisters in Yellow.