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Abe Kobo
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Kobayashi Takiji
Kuru Sachiko
Matsumoto Seicho
Mishima Yukio
Miyazawa Kenji
Mizukami Tsutomu
Mori Ogai
Murakami Haruki
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Oe Kenzaburo
Okamoto Kanoko
Shiga Naoya
Shonagon Sei
Shono Junzo
Soseki Natsume
Sugawara Takasue no Musume (Lady Sarashina)
Takamura Kaoru
Takaoka Kazuya
Tanizaki Junichiro
Tsutsui Yasutaka
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Anderson, Glenn
Araki, James T.
Aston, W. G.
Barnett, Anthony
Bester, John
Bickerton, William Maxwell
Birnbaum, Alfred
Birnbaum, Phyllis
Bownas, Geoffrey
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Doi, Kochi
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Holman, J. Martin
Humpherson, Roy
Iida, Marie
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Lammers, Wayne P.
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McCarthy, Ralph F.
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O, James’Brien
Okita, Hajime
Omori, Annie Shepley
Petersen, Will
Powell, Allison Markin
Purcell, Theobald Andrew
Rogers, Lawrence
Rubin, Jay
Sargent, Geoffrey W.
Sato, Hiroaki
Seidensticker, Edward
Shimizu, Teruyo
Sibley, William F.
Takahama, Toshie
Takemori, Ginny Tapley
Toraiwa, Naoko
Tremayne, Ken
Vincent, J. Keith
Waley, Arthur
Washburn, Dennis C.
Yokoo, Sadamichi
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3 strange tales
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A cat, a man, and two women : stories
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A fool’s life.
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A fool’s life.
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A future of ice : poems and stories of a Japanese Buddhist
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A Late chrysanthemum : twenty-one stories from the Japanese
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A literary lady of old Japan.
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Acts of worship : seven stories
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After the quake : stories
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As I crossed a bridge of dreams : recollections of a woman in eleventh-century Japan
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Ashikari and The story of Shunkin : modern Japanese novels
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Beyond the curve (and other stories)
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Blue bamboo : tales of fantasy and romance
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Convenience Store Woman
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Crackling Mountain and other stories
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Dazai Osamu, selected stories and sketches
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Death in midsummer, and other stories.
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Digital geishas and talking frogs : the best 21st century short stories from Japan
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