Introducing two of Kanoko Okamoto’s never-before translated works
A collection of short stories about Japan’s largest earthquake disasters
Looking back at the Japanese literary icon 30 years after the translation of her debut novel ‘Kitchen’
Previously untranslated short stories by the prolific Japanese writer
The word “translation” conjures up the idea of conversion between one language and another, with assorted acts of communication involved in those process. Since ancient times past, translation has been part of daily life as people seek contact with other…
Fifty years after his death, Yukio Mishima is reemerging in translation
Mieko Kawakami’s intimate portrait of womanhood in ‘Breasts and Eggs’
Power and metaphor in ‘The Memory Police’
