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Interview with Kumi Kimura: "Authors write about isolation because it is close to them and it’s very accessible"
Someone To Watch Over You is Kimura's only novel (out of 14) that has been translated from the original Japanese into English
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Interview | “Queerness often shows up in my writing”: Akira Otani
The author of The Night of Baba Yaga on writing about yakuza, the Japanese mafia, from a queer lens and winning UK’s Crime Writers’ Association Dagger…
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Visible, invisible women
An excerpt from The Dilemmas of Working Women by Fumio Yamamoto, translated by Brian Bergstrom
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Interview with Yuki Tejima: “Tokyo is a book lover’s heaven; I love how vibrant its literary scene is”
Literary translator Yuki Tejima chats with us about championing women’s writing; she has translated authors like Mizuki Tsujimura, Kumi Kimura and Emi…
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Yukio Mishima: The final moments
Japan's most celebrated & controversial author, Yukio Mishima's life was nothing less than theatrical...
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Book excerpt: Butter by Asako Yuzuki
a young journalist's encounter with the richness of food and how it defines women's role and appearance in the society
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"The stylistic issue is that Japanese writing uses repetition in ways that English writing simply doesn’t"
An exclusive chat with Jim Rion, author of a book on the history of sake in Yamaguchi, and translator of The Devil's Flute Murders, Strange Pictures …
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'Every birthday since, I’ve gone out for a walk at night'
Every Christmas Eve, Fuyuko heads out to catch a glimpse of the lights that fill the Tokyo night, but a chance encounter with a man makes her see the…
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Looking back at Japan's lost decade: economic recession, tsunami, nuclear meltdown & hikikomori
The Heisei era (1989–2019) is often remembered as Japan's darker years when the country witnessed a meltdown in all possible streams, writes Lesley…
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Dokusha Book Club’s Substack
Dokusha Book Club’s Substack
Dokusha in Japanese means a reader. We're a community of dokushas, or readers, interested in Japanese literature, art, cinema, food, basically everything Japanese.
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