Jun EtÅ
June ETO (Japanese江 藤 淳, Eto Jun, orig. Egashira Atsuo (江 头 淳 夫), born December 25, 1932 † 21 July 1999) was a Japanese literary critic.
ETO became known for his essays on the writer Natsume Soseki as a student of Keio University in the 1950s. In the 1960s, he wrote a study of the literary critic Kobayashi Hideo. He taught at the Tōkyō Daigaku Kōgyō, as well as his alma mater. Eto was known and controversial as a conservative critic of the intellectual world of Japan in the postwar period. In 1999 he published the book " My wife and I ," in which he described his experiences with the cancer death of his wife in 1998. In the same year he took his life after a stroke.