Emily Balistrieri, born in the U.S., is based in Japan. His translations include Tomihiko Morimi’s The Tatami Galaxy and Eiko Kadono’s Kiki’s Delivery Service. Most recently he translated Ao Omae’s People Who Talk to Stuffed Animals Are
Nice. He also did the English subtitles for Takahide Hori’s stop-motion animation film Junk Head.