Translator: McCarthy, Ralph F.
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From the Fatherland, With Love
From the Fatherland, with Love is set in an alternative, dystopian present in which the dollar has collapsed and Japan’s economy has fallen along with it. The North Korean government, sensing an opportunity, sends a fleet of rebels in the first land invasion that Japan has ever faced. Japan can’t cope with the surprise onslaught…
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Violet obsession : poems
Poems.
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69 : sixty-nine
A year in the life of a high school student in 1960s Japan.
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Popular hits of the Showa era
Describes a “gang war” between six aimless youths and six tough, independent career women battling for control of a Tokyo neighborhood and exacting revenge when one of them succumbs to a lethal ambush.
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Audition
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Piercing
Kawashima Masayuki is a successful graphic designer living in Tokyo with his loving wife, Yoko, and their baby girl. Outwardly, their lives are a picture of happiness and contentment, but every night while his wife sleeps Kawashima creeps from his bed and watches over the baby’s crib with an ice pick in his hand and…
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Self portraits : tales from the life of Japan’s great decadent romantic
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Blue bamboo : tales of fantasy and romance
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Run, Melos! and other stories
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Otogizoshi : the fairy tale book of Dazai Osamu