Roland Kelts
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Author Roland Kelts is a Tokyo-based writer, journalist, scholar and authority on Japanese and Western cultures. His first book, Japanamerica, is the ultimate guide to Japan's pop culture juggernaut — required reading for many Hollywood producers, global artists and academics worldwide.
He is a primary Japan source for The New Yorker, The Guardian, The New York Times, CNN, the BBC and NHK, among others. He is also a columnist for The Japan Times and a professor at Japan's prestigious Waseda University. He has given speeches on Japan for think tanks, embassies, universities, pop culture conventions and private events in the US, Europe and Asia.
Kelts has taught at The University of Tokyo, New York University, Columbia University, Sophia University, and Harvard University. He has won several awards and fellowships, and he was a Nieman Fellow in Journalism at Harvard University in 2017.