Making Sense of Japanese: What the Textbooks Don't Tell You

Jay Rubin (born 1941) is an American academic and translator. He is one of the main translators of the works of the Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami into English. He has also written a guide to Japanese, Making Sense of Japanese (originally titled Gone Fishin'), and a biographical literary analysis of Murakami. ([Source][1]) [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Rubin