Donald Keene, a U.S.-born scholar of Japanese literature who naturalized as a gesture of solidarity with Japan after the massive earthquake and tsunami in 2011, died of heart failure at a hospital in Tokyo on Sunday, his lawyer said. He was 96.The professor emeritus at Columbia University introduced Japanese culture abroad with his translations of some of the nation's best known classical and modern literature. The government awarded him the Order of Culture in 2008.Born in New York, Keene started studying Japanese literature while a student at Columbia, inspired by the 11th-century Japanes…READ FULL ARTICLE
