Katakura Yoshifumi

Katakura Yoshifumi is the kind of person who quietly does the work while everyone else chases the spotlight, and honestly I find that kind of admirable. A writer born in Kanagawa in late 1969 who fell for Taiwan as a student backpacker and has lived there since 1997, he spends his time recording the traces of the Japanese colonial era that others walk past. Writing as a profession doesn't come with much fanfare, and most people don't stop to think about how grueling it is to actually fill a book with something worth reading. The fact that he's made a career of it tells me there's real staying power there. He is also a railway sound recordist, which tells me he listens as carefully as he looks.

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Katakura Yoshifumi is a Japanese author born on December 17, 1969, in Kanagawa Prefecture. A Waseda University graduate who first visited Taiwan as a backpacker in 1991, he has lived there since 1997, writing travel guides and documenting the remains and heritage of the Japanese colonial era, and he is a visiting professor at Musashino University.

Name (English)

Katakura Yoshifumi

Name (Japanese)

片倉佳史

Reading

かたくら よしふみ

Born

December 17, 1969 (age 56)

Origin

Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

Author

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Rooster

University

Waseda University

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%89%87%E5%80%89%E4%BD%B3%E5%8F%B2
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8977601

Tags

• From Kanagawa Prefecture
• Author

Last updated

October 18, 2026

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