Doctor Stories from the Island Journals of the Legendary Dr. Koto
About the Translator Jeffrey S. Irish has extensive experience in farming and fishing communities in rural Japan. Twice mayor of a mountain village, population 30, he also spent two years on the crew of a fishing boat on the Lower Koshiki Island. It was there that he met Dr. Setoue. Irish studied Japanese history at Yale University and Japanese ethnology at Harvard University. He has written four books in Japanese about rural Japan and for nine years was a columnist for the South Japan Times, a Japanese newspaper based in southern Kyushu. His translation of Miyamoto Tsuneichi s classic The Forgotten Japanese was published in 2010 by Stone Bridge Press. An Associate Professor at the International University of Kagoshima, Irish teaches courses in community regeneration and lives in a small farming community with his wife and two children.