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Yoshiaki KOSHIKAWA (越川芳明　born April 10, 1952) is a Professor of English and American Literature, Department of English, Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan. He has done a lot of fieldwork on the US-Mexico borderland to hear the voices and songs of the historically “invisible” people, that is, chicana/os and the other immigrants from the south of the border. He has contributed articles on border films to the Japanese monthly magazines to criticize the Neo-Colonization.

His major work are: ‘’A Migrant Bird with a Guitar: In Praise of Poemas Chicanas‘’ ギターを抱いた渡り鳥　チカーノ詩礼賛(Chichosha思潮社, 2007) ‘’A Long Journey of a Chile Pepper: A Cultural Study on US-Mexico Borderland‘’トウガラシのちいさな旅　ボーダー文化論(Hakusuisha白水社,2006).

He has aslo translated many books of American fiction into Japanese. Steve Erickson, ‘’Our Ecstatic Days ‘’(Chikumashobo, 2009) Steve Erickson, ‘’The Sea Came in at Midnight‘’ (Chikumashobo, 2001) John Haskell, ‘’I am not Jackson Pollock‘’ (Hakusuisha, 2005) Robert Coover,‘’ Gerald's Party‘’ (Kodansha, 2000) Robert Coover, ‘’Universal Baseball Association‘’ (Wakabayashi, Shinchosha, 1985,1989) Paul Bowles, ‘’Collected Short Stories I, II ‘’(Hakusuisha, 1994,1995) Tomas Pynchon, ‘’Gravity's Rainbow‘’(Kokushokankokai, 1983)