About Kenneth Strong
Lived 1925 – 1990 (aged 64–65). Kenneth Strong was a translator.
Kenneth Lionel Chatterton Strong (27 June 1925 – 7 December 1990) was a British scholar and translator of Japanese novels.
Biography Strong was educated at Oxford University and SOAS University of London. He received a BA in Classics in 1947 and a MA in 1957 from the former institution and a BA in Japanese in 1951 and a BA in English in 1957 from the latter.
Strong served in the Royal Navy and arrived in Japan in 1946 as part of Allied forces. He was assistant professor at Tokyo Woman's Christian University between 1959 and 1962 and lecturer at University of Sydney between 1963 and 1964.
Strong married in 1953 and had a daughter and a son.
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British academic and translator (1925–1990)
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Kenneth Strong was born in 1925.
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Kenneth Strong died on 7 December 1990.
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Kenneth Strong was a translator.
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