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The Keshiki Series: New Voices from Japan (Part 1)

Eight chapbooks, each containing a tale (or tales) of around thirty or forty pages, all […]

Most established authors become known for their tropes, be they genre, theme, character type, or

In 2017 the Nobel Prize for Literature was won by the illustrious Kazuo Ishiguro, and

Translated from the Japanese by Ryan Holmberg In the wake of the bombings of Hiroshima

When reaching for a piece of Japanese fiction, be it novel, manga, or anime, there’s

When I was living in Inagi-shi, a once-upon-a-time small city now swallowed up by the

As a twenty-something who has, not for a moment, put learning and discovery behind him,

Dystopian fiction is arguably the most impactful, clever, and chilling kind of storytelling we have,

Translated from the Japanese by Anne Ishii For the bulk of his career, fifty-four-year-old manga

Wherever you were born and raised, you know that World War II changed everything. You