Amakasu Tomoko is a Japanese translator who works primarily in news and nonfiction translation. She has introduced Japanese readers to English-language works addressing infectious disease, science, racism, democracy, and international politics. Her major translations include David Quammen’s “Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic,” an investigation of how pathogens pass from animals to humans, and Robin DiAngelo’s “Nice Racism,” which examines discriminatory patterns that can persist among white progressives despite their stated opposition to racism.