No46 [Encounter] The amazing Kakuta Mitsuyo
Kakuta has written a wide variety of novels and depicted the lives of many different types of women through her characters. Having received a number […]
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No45 [Interview] For those with nowhere to go
The author Yu miri, as someone who had nowhere to go herself, has continued writing for people in the same situation. In 2018, two translations […]
No22 [Literature] Discovering Natsume Soseki
Published a century ago, Kokoro is still very popular in Japan in 2014. The Asahi Shinbun newspaper, that first published it in serial form, has started […]
No15 [Literature] From Murakami with love
The author of Coin Locker Babies is back with a novel that has a lot to say about Japan’s years of crisis. Murakami Ryu is […]
No6 [Literature] Discovering or rediscovering Black Rain
Five years after the atomic bomb explodes, young Yasuko is living with her uncle and aunt in a village near Hiroshima where they took refuge […]
No5 [Literature] The memory of our mothers
By continuing the work she started with her first novel, Julie Otsuka forcefully evokes the conditions of Japanese immigrants in America. On the boat, we […]
No4 [Literature] 1300 candles for the Kojiki
Compiled in the year 712, it is about time you were introduced to the ‘Record of Ancient Matters’, a monument of Japanese culture. In turn […]
No3 [Literature] I am a cat
The narrator of this tale is a cat who belongs to an English teacher ill at ease with himself and who suffers from depression and […]
No1 [Literature] dial c for crime
This is a rendez-vous with one of Japan’s best authors. The Devotion Of Suspect X shows the maturity that crime novels have reached in the […]