was a Japanese editor, writer, and translator.
A graduate of Meiji University's French Literature Department, he joined Hayakawa Shobō, a publishing company, where he stayed until 1975 specializing in translating French literature, translating, among others, works by André Maurois, Boris Vian, Georges Simenon, Maurice Leblanc. In 1985, he published . He also used the pseudonym .
He died on October 14, 2013, of heart failure.
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