. "Junji Kinoshita(\u6728\u4E0B\u9806\u4E8CKinoshita Junji), (2 August 1914 \u2013 30 October 2006), was perhaps the foremost playwright of modern drama in postwar Japan. He was also a translator and scholar of the plays of Shakespeare. He was born in Tokyo and graduated from the University of Tokyo, where he majored in English literature. Many of his plays were based on Japanese folk tales, but he also created works set in contemporary Japan that deal with social questions. His better-known works that have been translated into English include Twilight Crane (\u5915\u9DB4, Y\u016Bzuru), 1949; Wind and Waves (\u98A8\u6D6A, F\u016Br\u014D), 1947; Between God and Man (\u795E\u3068\u4EBA\u3068\u306E\u3042\u3044\u3060, Kami to hito to no aida), 1972; and A Japanese Called Otto (\u30AA\u30C3\u30C8\u30FC\u3068\u547C\u3070\u308C\u308B\u65E5\u672C\u4EBA\u3001Ott\u014D to yobareru nihonjin), 1962, Kinoshita's rendering of the Sorge spy ring incident on the eve of World War Two. In 1951 composer Ikuma Dan used Kinoshita's Twilight Crane as the libretto for his opera Y\u016Bzuru."@en . . . . "Junji Kinoshita(\u6728\u4E0B\u9806\u4E8CKinoshita Junji), (2 August 1914 \u2013 30 October 2006), was perhaps the foremost playwright of modern drama in postwar Japan. He was also a translator and scholar of the plays of Shakespeare. In 1951 composer Ikuma Dan used Kinoshita's Twilight Crane as the libretto for his opera Y\u016Bzuru."@en . . . . "Junji Kinoshita"@en .