Background
Yoshitaro Yokemura was born on February 10, 1897 in Gumma, Japan.
吉太郎 除村
Yoshitaro Yokemura was born on February 10, 1897 in Gumma, Japan.
Yoshitaro Yokemura graduated from the Tokyo School of Foreign Languages (1918), stayed behind briefly as professor and then proceeded to Soviet Russia for further studies (1935-1937).
profession (1940) and'-devoted himself thereafter to writing and studying Russian literature. After the ban was lifted he became lecturer at Waseda University. He was a member of Soviet Research Institute and of the Russo-Japanese Goodwill Association and noted as a literary critic. Among his works are "A Chronicle of Russia" and "Information About Russian Literature."