Posted by Alan Hakim on April 18, 2025 at 02:36:54 user awhakim.
In Reply to: Re: Japanese popularity posted by John Nichols on April 05, 2025 at 13:44:53:
Sorry, I haven't been paying attention to Tarboard lately.
Yes, the ARC was founded in Japan in 1987, and I was able to meet them on a visit in 1996. The article in MM mentioned earlier my well be mine, A Tar in Japan in the 1996 edition (Vol 2 No 3).
They held a 10th Anniversary meeting in 1997, and I was sent as Official TARS Representative, bearing 100 copies of a special booklet for ARC members about the poet Yone Noguchi and the painter Yoshio Markino, friends of AR's in 1903 onwards, in his Bohemia in London period. (By coincidence, that book is the 'theme' of the May-August 2025 Signals, just out.)
There was also a special Japan section in the Winter 1997 MM (Vol3 No2) including translations from the ARC magazine 1929.
I have never had this confirmed officially, but always assumed the Japanese interest in the S&A series, leading to the early foundation of ARC, was because the translations by Jinguu Teruo came out in 1967-8, were very popular with children who like S&A-type adventures, and naturally wanted to form a club when they had grown up.
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