Kazutami Watanabe, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Japanese scholar and translator of French literature
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Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
About Kazutami Watanabe
- Kazutami Watanabe (????, Watanabe Kazutami, January 5, 1932 – December 21, 2013) was a Japanese scholar and translator of French literature.Watanabe, who was born in Tokyo, graduated from the Literature Department, School of French Studies of the University of Tokyo in 1955.
- After getting his Ph.D at the same university, he became a lecturer at Rikkyo University's General Education Department in 1960, and an assistant professor in 1963.
- In 1965, he became an assistant professor at the School of French Literature of the same university, and in 1970 a full professor.
- From 1981 to 1983, he was the dean of the Literature Department.
- After his retirement in 1997, he was named professor emeritus. His wife, Hitomi, is the eldest daughter of Shuichi Sako, a diplomat.
- Watanabe died at the age of 81 from sepsis in December 2013.
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