2021: What is the Future of Japanese Literature?

With Japanese literature in translation finally breaching feminist frontiers, what’s next?

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Up next in our Based in Japan series, FEW Japan's president discusses career strategies and female entrepreneurship

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The English-language debut of a prolific Japanese writer

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Unpacking Japan's 'joshi mane' phenomenon

Scientific Literature About an Unscientific World

Kanji Hanawa divulges society’s absurdity in two translated novellas

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Bodice-ripping psycho-thriller

Destroyer

Gender-flipped, existential cop saga

‘The Hole’ by Hiroko Oyamada

David Boyd translates Oyamada's surreal novel of transformation and isolation

Appetite for Change

Single mothers confront Japan's hidden realities

3 Female Artists You Should Follow

Blossom the Project, Mari Naomi and Christine Mari Inzer on art, activism and mental health

Metropolis Autumn Issue 2020

Introducing our Autumn Issue and where to pick up a copy