Seigo Nakao

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Seigo Nakao is the head of Japanese Studies at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. He is the author of many books relating to Japan including The Random House Japanese-English English-Japanese dictionary and the Japanese Reference Dictionary published by Berlitz, the Langenscheidt's Japanese dictionary : Japanese-English, English-Japanese, and several smaller dictionaries. He is a translator of such classical Japanese works as Daidoji Yuzan's Code of the Samurai,^[1] and is a published literary critic with pieces available dealing with Akira Yoshimura, and others.

He was born in Nagasaki, received his Ph.d. from New York University, and first taught in America in New York City before coming to Oakland University where he now resides.