Browsing: Yoshihiro

For decades, Japan’s work culture has treated the deadline as something close to sacred: a promise that must be kept regardless of exhaustion, pressure or personal cost. However, Yoshihiro Togashi, the creator of Hunter × Hunter, has never been particularly interested in playing by those rules. He has repeatedly pushed back against the grueling demands…

Implicit in the authoring of an autobiography is the assumption — justified or otherwise — that one’s life story is worth telling. Implicit in the translation of an autobiography is the assumption — whether justified or otherwise — that the merit of the work endures even divorced from its original geographical-cultural context.