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Egami Teruhiko
- Profile
- He was born in Omuta City, Fukuoka Prefecture, in 1910. He was a translator, critic, and essayist. After graduating from Tokyo Imperial University, he went to Manchuria to work for Manchuria Electric Power Company. Upon being demobilized after the war, he became an executive at the newly established Shakai Shisōsha publishing company. In 1931, he became a full-time lecturer at Sagami Women’s University and later became a professor emeritus. He also taught courses on British and American theater at Sophia University and Meiji University. In the early days of television broadcasting, he was a pioneer in translating foreign television dramas, and he also served as a director of the Television and Radio Writers’ Association of Japan. In 1959, he translated and adapted the novel The Remarkable Incident at Carson Corners by Reginald Rose into a drama Aru Machi no Aru Dekigoto, which was broadcast on NHK. It won the Encouragement Prize at the Art Festival that same year. His television scripts include Syukukonka (Epithalamium, 1957, NHK), Yome (The Bride, 1958, NHK), Syūtome (The Mother in Law, 1959, NHK), The Puppet Show Robottan (1961, TBS), Hanketsu (The Judgment, 1963, NET [now TV Asahi]), and Sōten (A Point in Dispute, 1967, NHK). He also adapted many dramas based on foreign originals, including Ko wo Torōno Rei (The Spirit Who Wants to Take a Child, 1959, NET [now TV Asahi]) and Kawahigasi Kankichi no Fushigi na Sekai (The Mysterious World of Kankichi Kawahigashi, 1970, NHK). He died in 1990 at the age of 80.
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