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Yoko Tawada’s The Emissary

Mutation and hope in a not-so-distant dystopian Tokyo

Across Space & Time: Translating “Night on the Galactic Railroad”

Kenji Miyazawa’s untranslatable masterpiece

Matthew Chozick Q&A

Dance in Japanese: translating Forrest Gander’s Eiko & Koma

Body Language

Poetry, dance and translation in Eiko & Koma

Tokyo Ueno Station

Yu Miri’s latest novel offers an intimate insight into a harsher side of Tokyo

INTO THE VOID

Joy Waller’s “Pause :: Heartbeat” explores the human extreme

Wieland Wagner Interview

A German perspective on Japan’s working culture

Oyako: An Ode to Parents and Children

An array of intriguing portraits of Japanese oyako

Japanese Historical Novels

The best of Japan’s historical fiction

Books We Love

Merry Christmas to all our readers

Kevin Barry at the European Literature Festival

The award-winning writer shares thoughts on place, sound and Twitter ahead of his first trip to Tokyo

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