japanese literature Archives - Metropolis Japan

Questioning Normalcy in the Age of the Pandemic

‘Convenience Store Woman’ author Sayaka Murata on breaking norms

The Titanic Literary Accomplishment of Yoko Ogawa

Power and metaphor in ‘The Memory Police’

Five (Translated) Japanese Novels to Read in 2020

And almost all of them are written by women

Five Female Japanese Writers You Should Be Reading

The best contemporary female authors with English translated novels

Five Best Japanese Novels of 2018

Metropolis lists this year’s best Japanese fiction

5 Ways to Get Lit

By lit, we mean literature

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