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Donald Keene in his Tokyo home in 2002.
Donald Keene in his Tokyo home in 2002.

Donald Lawrence Keene (born June 6, 1922 in New York City) is a noted Japanologist, scholar, teacher, writer, translator and interpreter of Japanese literature and culture. Events 1508 - Maximilian I Holy Roman Emperor, is defeated in Friulia by Venetian forces; he is forced to sign a three-year Year 1922 ( MCMXXII) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. The City of New York Japanese Studies (aka Japanology) is the study of Japan. Japanology and Japanese studies are terms generally used in Europe to describe the historical Japanese literature spans a period of almost two millennia Early works were heavily influenced by cultural contact with China and Chinese literature, often written The culture of Japan has evolved greatly over millenia from the country's prehistoric Jomon culture to its contemporary hybrid culture which combines influences from Asia Keene is currently University Professor Emeritus and Shincho Professor Emeritus of Japanese Literature at Columbia University, where he has taught for over fifty years. The meaning of the word professor ( Latin: professor, person who professes to be an expert in some art or science teacher of highest rank) varies Columbia University is a private University in the United States and a member of the Ivy League.

Keene has published about 25 books in English on Japanese topics, including both studies of Japanese literature and culture and translations of Japanese classical and modern literature, including a four-volume history of Japanese literature. Keene has also published about 30 books in Japanese (some translated from English).

Keene is the president of the Donald Keene Foundation for Japanese Culture.

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Education

Keene received a Bachelor's degree from Columbia in 1942. A bachelor's degree is usually an Undergraduate Academic degree awarded for a course or major that generally lasts for three four or in some cases and He studied Japanese language at the U. is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities S. Navy Japanese Language School in California, and served as an intelligence officer in the Pacific region during World War II. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including Upon his discharge from the Navy, he returned to Columbia where he earned a master's degree in 1947.

He studied for a year at Harvard University before transferring to Cambridge where he earned a second masters, after which he stayed at Cambridge as a Lecturer from 1949-1955. The University of Cambridge (often Cambridge University) located in Cambridge, England, is the second-oldest university in the In the interim, he also studied at Kyoto University, and earned a Ph.D. from Columbia in 1951. or is a major national university in Kyoto, Japan. It is the second oldest university in Japan and formerly one of the Imperial Universities of "PhD" redirects here for other uses see PhD (disambiguation. In 1978, Keene earned a second Ph. D (Litt. D), from Cambridge.

Publications

Translations

Editor

Works in English

Honorary degrees

Keene has been awarded eight honorary doctorate degrees, from:

Awards and commendations

Keene has also received a number of awards and commendations, including:

Order of the Rising Sun (3rd Class) rosette
Order of the Rising Sun (3rd Class) rosette

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