Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Donald Keene" in English language version.
I too had studied Chinese along with Japanese and hoped to become the second Waley.
Keene, who befriended giants of Japanese literature such as Yukio Mishima and Yasunari Kawabata, was awarded the Order of Culture in March 2008, the first non-Japanese to receive it, and became a Japanese citizen in 2012.
