Title: Donald Keene Content: thumb|right|240px|Donald Keene in his Tokyo home in 2002. Donald Lawrence Keene (June 18, 1922 - February 24, 2019), also known as , "Donald Keene obtains Japanese citizenship; shows off 鬼怒鳴門 as his name," Japan Today. March 9, 2001; retrieved 2012-11-18. was an American and Japanese scholar, teacher, writer, translator and Japan studies expert.Fackler, Martin. "Lifelong Scholar of the Japanese Becomes One of Them," The New York Times, November 2, 2012; retrieved 2012-11-02. Keene's contributions to the understanding of Japanese culture were recognized by the Japanese government in 2002 and in 2008.Keene Center of Japanese Culture, About Donald Keene ; retrieved 2012-11-02. In 2012, Keene became a Japanese citizen and he explained, :"You cannot stop being an American after 89 years.... But I have become a Japanese in many ways. Not pretentiously, but naturally." ==Early life== Keene was born in Brooklyn in New York City.Pilling, David. "Lunch with the FT: Donald Keene," 28 October 2011; retrieved 2012-11-5. He received a Bachelor's degree from Columbia in 1942. He studied Japanese language at the U.S. Navy Japanese Language School. After World War II, he returned to Columbia where he earned a master's degree in 1947. He earned a Ph.D. from Columbia in 1951. In this period, Ryūsaku Tsunoda became his mentor.Arita, Eriko. "Keene: A life lived true to the words," Japan Times. September 6, 2009; retrieved 2012-11-18. ==Career== Starting in 1955,Library of Congress Authority File, Keene, Donald; retrieved 2012-11-02. Keene was a professor at Columbia University for over fifty years. He retired from Columbia after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. He became a Japanese citizen under the name Kīn Donarudo. His first visit to Japan was during the Battle of Okinawa in 1945. ==Death== Keene died on February 24, 2019 in Tokyo from heart failure, aged 96.ドナルド・キーンさん死去 96歳 ==Selected works== In an overview of writings by and about Keene, OCLC/WorldCat lists roughly 600+ works in 1,400+ publications in 16 languages and 39,000+ library holdings. WorldCat Identities: Keene, Donald; retrieved 2012-11-1. :This list is not finished; you can help Wikipedia by adding to it. * The Battles of Coxinga: Chikamatsu's Puppet Play, Its Background and Importance, 1951 * The Japanese Discovery of Europe: Honda Toshiaki and other discoverers 1720-1952, 1952 * Japanese Literature an Introduction for Western Readers, 1955 * Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology, 1956 * Major Plays of Chikamatsu, 1961 * Four Major Plays of Chikamatsu, 1961 * Japanese Discovery of Europe, 1720-1830, 1969 * Twenty Plays of the Noh Theatre, 1970 * World Within Walls: Japanese Literature of the Pre-Modern Era, 1600-1867, 1976 * Some Japanese Portraits, 1979 * Dawn to the West: Japanese Literature in the Modern Era, 1984-1988 * The Pleasures of Japanese Literature, 1988 * Introducing Kyoto, 1989 (with Herbert E. Plutschow) * Travelers of a Hundred Ages: The Japanese As Revealed Through 1,000 Years of Diaries, 1989 * Modern Japanese Novels and the West, 1989 * No and Bunraku: Two Forms of Japanese Theatre, 1990 * Appreciations of Japanese Culture, 1991 * The Colors of Poetry: Essays in Classic Japanese Verse 1991 (with Ooka Makoto) * Travelers of a Hundred Ages, 1992 * Seeds in the Heart: Japanese Literature from Earliest Times to the Late Sixteenth Century,1993 * On Familiar Terms: A Journey Across Cultures, 1994 * Modern Japanese Diaries: The Japanese at Home and Abroad As Revealed Through Their Diaries, 1995 * The Blue-Eyed Tarokaja: A Donald Keene Anthology, 1996 * On Familiar Terms: To Japan and Back, a Lifetime Across Cultures, 1996 * Japan at the Dawn of the Modern Age: Woodblock Prints from the Meija Era, 1868-1912, 2001 (with Anne Nishimura & Frederic A. Sharf) * Sources of Japanese Tradition: From Earliest Times to 1600, 2001 (with William Theodore De Bary, George Tanabe and H. Paul Varley) * Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852-1912, 2002 * Masterful Illusions: Japanese Prints from the Anne Van Biema Collection, 2002 (Lee Bruschke-Johnson and Ann Yonemura) * Five Modern Japanese Novelists, 2002 * Yoshimasa and the Silver Pavilion: The Creation of the Soul of Japan, 2003 * Frog In The Well: Portraits of Japan by Watanabe Kazan 1793-1841, 2006 * Chronicles of My Life: An American in the Heart of Japan, 2008 * So Lovely A Country Will Never Perish: Wartime Diaries of Japanese Writers, 2010 ==Honors== *Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon, Third Class, 1975 * Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star, Second Class, 1993 * Person of Cultural Merit, 2002 * Order of Culture, 2008