Suehiro Tanemura
was a translator (from German into Japanese) and critic. Tanemura was born in Toshima, Tokyo in 1933. His mother died in 1946. He became interested in German while still a teenager, and entered the University of Tokyo in 1951. He first majored in aesthetics but switched to German literature, graduating in 1957 and for a short time thereafter working in Kōbunsha in editing the women's magazine Josei Jishin. From 1963 until 1968, Tanemura taught as an adjunct lecturer at Komazawa University. In 1968 he obtained a tenured post at Tokyo Metropolitan University, but he resigned in 1971 and went to Europe, where he spent much time until 1978, when he took another tenured post at Kokugakuin University, where he would teach until December 2002. At around this time he was diagnosed with cancer, from which he died in 2004. Tanemura was a prolific translator from German, writer and anthologizer of others' writings, with a certain tendency toward subjects like vampires and Sacher-Masoch. His own writings were first collected in a ten-volume set in 1979; two decades later this was supplemented by an eight-volume set. Collected works 
Tanemura Suehiro no rabirintos (, The labyrinth of Suehiro Tanemura). 10 volumes. Tokyo: Seidosha, 1979. Tanemura Suehiro no neo-rabirintos (, The neo-labyrinth of Suehiro Tanemura). 8 volumes. Tokyo: Kawada Shobō Shinsha, 1998–9. External links 
 Tanemura Suehiro no webu-rabirintos (, The web labyrinth of Suehiro Tanemura] 
 Tanemura Suehiro: Bokutachi no ojisan (, Suehiro Tanemura: Our "uncle"). Tokyo: Kawade Shobō Shinsha, 2006. 1933 births
2004 deaths
Japanese literary critics
Japanese essayists
Japanese translators
People from Toshima
Writers from Tokyo
Deaths from cancer in Japan
20th-century translators
University of Tokyo alumni
20th-century essayists