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Dream Tales

Read a translated excerpt from Junichiro Tanizaki’s masterpiece ‘Dream Tales’

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Top 7 Japanese Books to Read This Winter

From romance to AI, works of translation to Tokyo-based novels

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Mieko Kawakami’s ‘Heaven’

One of the most anticipated Japanese novels of 2021

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Studio Ghibli on the Page

The best books of Hayao Miyazaki’s Ghibli universe

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How the English Language Failed Banana Yoshimoto

Looking back at the Japanese literary icon 30 years after the translation of her debut novel ‘Kitchen’

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‘Tales of the Zashiki Children’ by Kenji Miyazawa

Previously untranslated short stories by the prolific Japanese writer

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The Resurgence of a Japanese Literary Master

Fifty years after his death, Yukio Mishima is reemerging in translation

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Yoko Tawada’s The Emissary

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

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Across Space & Time: Translating ‘Night on the Galactic Railroad’

Kenji Miyazawa’s untranslatable masterpiece

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Tokyo Ueno Station

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

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