Career
Keene is a Japanologist who 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 which has become the standard work. Keene has also published about 30 books in Japanese (some translated from English). He is the president of the Donald Keene Foundation for Japanese Culture.
Soon after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, Keene retired from Columbia and moved to Japan with the intention of living out the remainder of his life there. He acquired his Japanese citizenship, and introducing pseudonym 鬼怒鳴門(キーン・ドナルド) on March 8th, 2012. This required him to relinquish his American citizenship, as Japan does not permit dual citizenship. Keene is well known and respected in Japan and his move there in the aftermath of the earthquake crises was widely lauded. Keene gave a lecture in Sendai in October 2011.
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