TOKYO (AP) — Shuntaro Tanikawa, who pioneered modern Japanese poetry, poignant but conversational in its divergence from haiku and other traditions, has died. He was 92. Tanikawa, who translated ...

15.12.1931], he selects Shuntaro Tanikawa - A Poet's Japan. And Daljit reads another poem from his Poetry Extra Book of the Month: Collected Poems by Wendy Cope. Shuntaro Tanikawa is Japan’s ...

Shuntaro Tanikawa, who pioneered modern Japanese poetry, has died aged 92. Tanikawa, who translated the Peanuts comic strip and penned the lyrics for the theme song of the animation series Astro ...