Welcome to Japanese Poetry, Poetry International, 2006 () was a Japanese poet and literary critic. He pioneered the collaborative poetic form renshi in the 1990s,Profile of Makoto Ooka in which he has collaborated with such well-known literary figures as Charles Tomlinson, James Lasdun, Joseph Stanton, Shuntarō Tanikawa and Mikirō Sasaki.Tomlinson, Charles, Makoto Ooka, James Lasdun, Hiroshi Kawasaki and Mikiro Sasaki. An extract from Departing Swallows, in Journal of Renga & Renku, issue 2, 2012. p162
