Japanese literature scholar Donald Keene

Japanese literature scholar Donald Keene

Photo taken in March 2016 shows Donald Keene, a U.S.-born scholar of Japanese literature. Keene, who naturalized as a gesture of solidarity with Japan after the massive earthquake and tsunami in 2011, died of heart failure at age 96 at a hospital in Tokyo on Feb. 24, 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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