Education
A native of Yamanashi Prefecture, he studied Pali and Sanskrit at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, and graduated with a Bachelor from the University of Tokyo.
前嶋 信次
A native of Yamanashi Prefecture, he studied Pali and Sanskrit at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, and graduated with a Bachelor from the University of Tokyo.
Prior to World World War II, he taught in Taiwan, then a Japanese colony. After the war, he taught Islamic History at Keio University until his death. He was the first one to render the One Thousand and One Nights from the original Arabic into Japanese.
He died just before the publication of a supplementary volume to his twelve-volume translation, which contains the stories of Ali Baba and Aladdin.
Six more volumes were later produced by Osamu Ikeda (池田 修) to complete the series.