*1942 JP
A.k.a. 佐藤 紘彰 (Satō Hiroaki)
Hiroaki Sato (佐藤 紘彰 Satō Hiroaki, born 1942) is a Japanese poet and prolific translator who writes frequently for The Japan Times. He has been called (by Gary Snyder) "perhaps the finest translator of contemporary Japanese poetry into American English."