Oketani Shogo is a Tokyo-based writer and translator. With Leza Lowitz, he co-translated America and Other Poems by Ayukawa Nobuo, forthcoming from Kaya Press, for which they received the 2003 U.S.-Japan Friendship Commission Award from the Donald Keene Center at Columbia University. Oketani is currently writing a book of interrelated short stories looking at the effects of American culture on a group of young boys in Tokyo in the 1960s.
