Ryukichi Terao

Ryukichi Terao is a Japanese Hispanist and translator.

Work

Terao has published research work:Literaturas al margen La novelística de la violencia en América Latina
He is renowned for his translations into Japanese of several Latin American writers:

Gabriel García Márquez
Rómulo Gallegos
Julio Cortázar
Juan Carlos Onetti
Alejo Carpentier
Mario Vargas Llosa

Together with the Venezuelan translators Ednodio Quintero and Gregory Zambrano, he has also translated the work of many notable Japanese writers into Spanish:

Kenzaburō Ōe
Junichiro Tanizaki
Kōbō Abe