Michael Emmerich is an associate professor in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles. Read More He is the author of “The Tale of Genji”: Translation, Canonization, and World Literature, the editor of Read Real Japanese Fiction and New Penguin Parallel Texts: Short Stories in Japanese, and the translator of numerous books from the Japanese, most recently Bullfight, The Hunting Gun, and Life of a Counterfeiter, all by Inoue Yasushi.