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He is the great Japanese challenger
Who took on the pugnacious Salinger
To him we're be'Holden
For a translation that's golden
And a Caulfield who's raunchy and mad at ya!
"Untranslatable" meant nothing to the man
Who brought Finnegans Wake to Japan.
Yanase Japanized proper
James's jumbled jabber
To reJoyce the delighted [tout le monde] !