Genre: <span>Fiction</span>

Anthology of Japanese literature : from the earliest era to the mid-nineteenth century

This extensive anthology includes excerpts from plays and novels plus stories, fairy tales, and many poems.

May 28, 2013

Snakelust

The seven stories collected here span the range of Kenji Nakagami’s writing. He draws on the history of his birthplace, Kumano in his tales of red-eyed demons, mountain bandits and ravaged princesses. Stories with a more modern setting describe the turbulent lives of the Kumano people.

May 28, 2013

Silence to light : Japan and the shadows of war

May 28, 2013

The pornographers

Subuyan is a simple man who also happens to be a frantically busy, not quite successful pornographer of Osaka. He tries to keep his clients happy, and he does his best to alleviate the sorrows of mankind, at least insofar as they afflict the wealthy men and large corporations who are his clients. This humane…

May 28, 2013

Towards A Literature of the Periphery

May 28, 2013

Honeymoon to nowhere

A State Prosecutor Kirishima mystery. Etsuko loves the shy, young lecturer who clumsily (albeit charmingly) courts her. Her family does not. His past is suspect – unthinkable for a suitor in Japan. They marry anyway. On their wedding night he is called away by an urgent phone call. By morning he is still missing.

May 28, 2013

Voices of the Pacific : a celebration of diversity : a reader’s guide to writings from Japan, China, Korea, Viet Nam, The Philippines, Pacific Islands

May 28, 2013

The tattoo murder case

A Japanese mystery set in 1947 Tokyo featuring Kenzo Matsushita, a young doctor who has an affair with a married woman with a tattooed torso. One day he finds her murdered, the torso missing, and sets out to find the killer. A look at the art of tattooing in Japan where it is banned.

May 28, 2013

J-Boys : Kazuo’s world, Tokyo, 1965

Kazuo Nakamoto’s life in inner-city Tokyo is one of tea and tofu, of American TV and rock ‘n’ roll. Kazuo is nine. It is the mid-1960s, just after the Japan Olympics, and Kazuo dreams of being a track star. He hangs out with his buddies, goes to school, and helps with household chores. But Kazuo’s…

May 28, 2013

The informer

A Japanese novel on an industrial spy assigned to obtain a formula from a company. On the verge of success, having worked himself into the owner’s good graces and the arms of his wife, the owner is murdered and the spy’s problems begin.

May 28, 2013

Genre: Fiction