David Karashima works as a program officer at a Tokyo-based grants organization, where he is responsible for various international development and cross-cultural exchange programs. He has a BA in International Relations from Tufts University in the US, and an MA in Writing from the Middlesex University in the UK. He is currently a PhD candidate in Translation and Intercultural Studies at the Universitat Rovira I Virgili in Spain. He has published translations of works by authors such as Hitomi Kanehara, Takeshi Kitano, and Taichi Yamada, and for JLPP has translated Triangle by Hisaki Matsuura.