Kenneth Lionel Chatterton Strong (27 June 1925 – 7 December 1990) was a British scholar and translator of Japanese novels.
[3] Strong served in the Royal Navy[4] and arrived in Japan in 1946 as part of Allied forces.
[3] Strong returned to England in 1964 and worked as a lecturer in Japanese at SOAS University of London from 1964 to 1980.
[1] During this time he published several praised translations of notable Japanese novels.
[3][6][7][8][9] Strong married in 1953 and had a daughter and a son.