Katja Cassing
Katja Cassing is a German translator and publisher based in the central German town of Bad Berka. While running her own publishing company, Cass Verlag, she has translated numerous works of Japanese literature into German, among them The Paradise Bird Tattoo by Kurumatani Chokitsu (Akame 48 Waterfalls on film) and The Lakeside Murder Case by Higashino Keigo.
Interview Video
*The interview video was released on October 14, 2022.
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Katja Cassing
Katja Cassing (pen name Katja Busson) was born in Germany in 1970. She took up Japanese studies and English language and literature at Trier University and Waseda University. Since receiving a PhD in Japanese studies from Trier University, she has devoted herself for many years to compiling a Japanese-German dictionary. She has translated into German the works of many authors, including Higashino Keigo, Fujiwara Iori, Tanizaki Jun’ichiro, Kurumatani Chokitsu, Machida Ko, Miyashita Natsu, Aoyama Nanae, and Kawakami Mieko.
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Interviewer: Kanehara Mizuhito
Born in Okayama Prefecture in 1954. Professor at Hosei University and translator of over 600 children’s books, Young Adult novels, and other works, including A Pack of Lies (Kaiseisha, 1998), The Great Blue Yonder (Kyuryudo, 2002), the Percy Jackson series (co-translation, Holp Shuppan Publications), Blackham’s Wimpy (Fukutake Shoten, 1990), A Man without a Country (NHK Publishing, 2007), The Moon and Sixpence (Shincho Bunko, 2014), and A Girl I Knew / The Inverted Forest (Shinchosha, 2022). Also the author of essay collections including Hon’yaku wa meguru [Translator, Traveler] (Shunyodo Shoten, 2022) and adaptations of Japanese classics including Kana tehon chushingura [The Forty-seven Ronin] (Kaiseisha, 2012) and Ugetsu monogatari [Tales of Moonlight and Rain] (Iwasaki Shoten, 2012). Website: Kanehara Mizuhito
Photo: Nezu Chihiro
