Yosuke
Tanaka (1969–), the author of three poetry collections, A Day When the
Mountains are Visible (Shichōsha, 1999, in Japanese), Sweet Ultramarine
Dreams (Michitani, 2008, in Japanese), and I’d Love to Go to Mont
Saint-Michel (Shichōsha, 2018, in Japanese), also works as a molecular cell
biologist in the daytime. After being chosen as “Eureka Poet of the Year”
(1989), he has served as the editor of the poetry magazine Kisaki
(1989–). He also contributed as a guest poetry editor of the Japanese poetry
issue of Jung Journal: Culture & Psyche (Volume 10(1), 2016), and
was invited to the Indian National Poetry Festival in Kolkata (2018).