Kawashima Chunosuke is best known for his translation of Jules Verne’s Around the World in 80 Days. Kawashima worked as an interpreter for a trading company at the time, and in 1878 published the work, the first of Verne’s works to be translated into Japanese, at his own expense. His translation was one of the first correspondent—as opposed to adaptive—translations of a foreign literary texts.
See also SCIENCE FICTION.
Historical dictionary of modern Japanese literature and theater. J. Scott Miller. 2009.