Ted Goossen is a professor emeritus of contemporary Japanese literature at York University in Toronto, Canada.
[3] When he was nineteen, Goossen went to Japan for his third year of college, where he lived with homestay family and learned the Japanese language.
He encountered the works of Haruki Murakami during his doctoral studies after a friend introduced A Wild Sheep Chase to him.
According to translator David Karashima, Goossen claimed that the panel was a "turning point in terms of Murakami's position within Japanese literary studies in the U.S."[4] While working at the University of Tokyo, Goossen met Motoyuki Shibata, a frequent collaborator of Murakami's.
[5] The international edition has featured several pieces by Haruki Murakami, as well as the first excerpts of Hiromi Kawakami's People From My Neighborhood.