KENZABURO OHASHI is a leading Melville scholar and Professor
Emeritus at University of Tokyo, and lecturer at Perris
Women's University in Yokohama. In addition to his works
written in Japanese, he is the author of "Native Soil" and
the World Beyond: William Faulkner and Japanese Novelists
( 1984).

KEIKO BEPPU, a Professor at Kobe Joshi-Gakuin University, is
the author of The Educated Sensibility in Henry James and
Walter Pater ( 1979). She has published articles on
Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, James, and Dickinson. Since 1974
she has been the major Japanese contributor to American
Literary Scholarship.

KAZUKO FUKUOKA is Associate Professor at Kyoto University,
and author of many articles on Melville, Poe, and other
writers.

ARIMICHI MAKINO is Professor of English at Meiji University,
Tokyo. He has been the editor of Sky-Hawk, an academic
magazine published annually from the Melville Study Center
of Meiji University. In Sky-Hawk, he has published several
essays on Melville.

KIYOTOSHI MURAKAMI is Associate Professor of Kanazawa
University, Ishikawa. He has translated Charles Fiedelson's

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