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From the Editor editor's note From the Editor Many readers of ATJ will be saddened to know that Faubion Bowers, eighty-two, died of a heart attack in his New York apartment on November 16, 1999. He had lived long enough to help me complete my translation and adaptation of a 1998 Japanese book by Okamoto Shiro, the English title of which will be The Man Who Saved Kabuki: Faubion Bowers and Theatrical Censorship in Occupied Japan. The first draft was completed three days before his passing. It contains the most complete account of what Bowers accomplished during the early Occupation, when he became the savior of Japan's 350-year-old classical theatre, kabuki. Bowers, who was fluent in many languages, including Chinese and Japanese, went on to write many memorable books about theatre and music (including a definitive biography of Alexander Scriabin). Asian theatre specialists are greatly in debt to his Japanese Theatre (1952), Dance in India (1953), and the strikingly comprehensive Theatre in the East: A Survey of Asian Dance and Drama (1956). Faubion eventually made his way into ATJ, providing our recent kabuki issue with a modern play translation, a brief essay on Bandö Tamasaburö V's performance as Queen Elizabeth, and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Asian Theatre Journal University of Hawai'I Press

From the Editor

Leiter, Samuel L.
Asian Theatre Journal , Volume 17 (2) – Sep 1, 2000
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editor's note From the Editor Many readers of ATJ will be saddened to know that Faubion Bowers, eighty-two, died of a heart attack in his New York apartment on November 16, 1999. He had lived long enough to help me complete my translation and adaptation of a 1998 Japanese book by Okamoto Shiro, the English title of which will be The Man Who Saved Kabuki: Faubion Bowers and Theatrical Censorship in Occupied Japan. The first draft was completed three days before his passing. It contains the most complete account of what Bowers accomplished during the early Occupation, when he became the savior of Japan's 350-year-old classical theatre, kabuki. Bowers, who was fluent in many languages, including Chinese and Japanese, went on to write many memorable books about theatre and music (including a definitive biography of Alexander Scriabin). Asian theatre specialists are greatly in debt to his Japanese Theatre (1952), Dance in India (1953), and the strikingly comprehensive Theatre in the East: A Survey of Asian Dance and Drama (1956). Faubion eventually made his way into ATJ, providing our recent kabuki issue with a modern play translation, a brief essay on Bandö Tamasaburö V's performance as Queen Elizabeth, and

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