![]() ![]() in Japanese language and literature from the Monterey Institute of Foreign Studies in Monterey, California, then undertook extensive research on Edo-period (1603-1868) philosophy at the Aichi Prefectural University, in Nagoya, Japan. ![]() degree in political science from Dartmouth, Wilson earned a second B.A. ![]() This eye-opening journey, beautifully documented in National Geographic, spurred Wilson's fascination with the culture and history of Japan.Īfter receiving a B.A. As an undergraduate student at Dartmouth College in 1966, he was invited by a friend to join a three-month kayak trip up the coast of Japan from Shimonoseki to Tokyo. WILLIAM SCOTT WILSON, the translator, was born in 1944 and grew up in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. His memoirs have been translated as Fragments of a Past. At the time of his death in 1962, he was one of Japan's most popular novelists. Beginning his literary career at the age of twenty-two, he continued to work as a journalist while writing novels that reached a large and appreciative readership.
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