Edwin McClellan

Edwin McClellan (October 24, 1925 – April 27, 2009) was a British Japanologist. He was an academic—a scholar, teacher, writer, translator and interpreter of Japanese literature and culture. McClellan was born in Kobe, Japan, in 1925 to a British father, an early representative of Lever Brothers in Japan, and a Japanese mother, Teruko Yokobori. His mother and older brother died when he was two. McClellan and his father were repatriated to Britain in 1942 aboard the Tatsuta Maru, a passenger liner requisitioned by the Japanese navy (and later torpedoed by a U.S. submarine) to repatriate British nationals from throughout Southeast Asia. In London, McClellan taught Japanese at the School of Oriental and African Studies as part of the war...