| Junji Kunishige | |
| Native Name: | 國重 純二 |
| Native Name Lang: | ja |
| Birth Date: | 20 January 1942 |
| Nationality: | Japanese |
| Known For: | Scholar and translator of American literature |
| Education: | Kagawa Prefectural Takamatsu High School |
| Alma Mater: | Tokyo University |
| Workplaces: | Chiba University |
was a Japanese scholar and translator of American literature.
A repatriate from Manchukuo, he graduated from Kagawa Prefectural Takamatsu High School in Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture, and in 1966 from Tokyo University's Literature Department, School of English Literature. After giving up his Ph.D study in 1972 at Tokyo University, he began teaching at the College of Liberal Arts of Chiba University, where he became an assistant professor in 1974, transferring a year later to Tokyo Metropolitan University, also as an assistant professor. In 1986 he became an assistant professor at The College of Liberal Arts of Tokyo University, before becoming a professor in 1992.
From 1998 he was for two years chairperson of the American Literature Society of Japan, and from 1999, also for two years, chairperson of the English Literary Society of Japan. After retiring in 2001, he was named professor emeritus of Tokyo University, and professor at Tsurumi University. In 2012 he retired. On December 14, 2013 he died from hepatocellular carcinoma.[1]