Ryōzō Nagashima

Ryōzō Nagashima 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 Dorafuto Renzoku Satsujin Jiken. He also used the pseudonym Ryōzō Kitamura.
He died on October 14, 2013, of heart failure.