Beongcheon Yu is the translator of Natsume Sōseki's novel The Wayfarer and author of a critical study on Soseki. He has also written studies of Lafcadio Hearn. Yu was born in Korea in 1925. He attended the First Higher School in Tokyo,and received his BA from Seoul National University in 1948. He received his MA from the University of Kansas City in 1954 and his PhD from Brown University in 1958. Wrote an influential review of Melville's Moby Dick, titled "Ishmael's Equal Eye: The Source of Balance in Moby-Dick."
Natsume Soseki, The Wayfarer, trans. Beongcheon Yu, Charles Tuttle,1969 ISBN 4-805302046
Natsume Soseki, Beongcheon Yu, MacMillan Publishing Company 1984 ISBN 2-805728503
Akutagawa; An Introduction, 1972
An Ape Of Gods; The Art And Thought Of Lafcadio Hearn. 1964
The Great Circle : American Writers And The Orient, 1983
Han Yong-Un and Yi Kwang-Su: Two Pioneers Of Modern Korean Literature, 1992
http://www.xmlwriter.com/books/viewbook/Contemporary_Authors:_Biography___Yu,_Beongcheon_(1925_)-B0007SGC7A.html A digital biography of Beongchan Yu