VOX POPULI: We all owe a debt to Meiji Era pioneers of the art of translation | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis
Akira Yanabu (1928-2018), an expert on the history of translation and author of “Honyaku towa Nanika” (What is translation?) and other works, once noted cryptically, “Translation, after all, is misunderstanding.”
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