Background
His father-in-law is the translator, novelist, and occasional critic Kotaka Nobumitsu.
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Hiroki Azuma
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literary critic novelist philosopher university professor writer
Education
Born in Mitaka, Tokyo, he received his Doctor of Philosophy (in "Culture and Representation") from the University of Tokyo in 1999 and became a professor at the International University of Japan in 2003.
Career
He was an Executive Research Fellow and Professor at the Center for Global Communications (GLOCOM), and a Research Fellow at Stanford University"s Japan Center. Since 2006 he has been working at the Center for Study of World Civilizations at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. Azuma is married to the writer and poet Hoshio Sanae.
They have one child.
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Nationality
Japan