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Japanese Literature Discussion Classes with “Granta 127”!

Japanese Literature Discussion Classes with “Granta 127”! I’m happy to announce that my Japanese literature discussion classes start ...

“Modern Japanese Short Stories” edited by Ivan Morris

Over the last 10 months, we’ve read and discussed short stories of the Tuttle anthology. You could not only discover many great stories...

“What it is to Read in Japanese” by Minae Mizumura

I read essays of Mizumura, which is a sister book of “What it is to Write in Japanese”. As compared to the other one, this is in a way...

“The Priest and His Love” by Yukio Mishima

I have successfully finished this term with a beautiful story by Mishima, which was written in 1954. Mishima composed it based on an...

Minae Mizumura “Nihongo de Kakutoiukoto” (What it is to write in Japanese)

Mizumura is a scholar and writer, who is well-known for her essay entitled “The Fall of Language in the Age of English”. This book is...

“Kage ni Taishite” (“Against the Shadow”) by Shusaku Endo

This story was newly discovered in 2020. Endo is an internationally acclaimed author whose most representative work is “Silence”. It...

Book Haul

A while ago, I went back to Japan to do some urgent errands. In addition to the Haruki Murakami Library, there was another place I...

The Waseda International House of Literature (The Haruki Murakami Library)

To do some errands (a bit urgent), I went back to Japan for about 10 days. It was for the first time in 1 and a half years. Had Tokyo...

“Trinity, Trinity, Trinity” by Erika Kobayashi (translated by Brian Bergstrom)

Today, I attended a fantastic event hosted by Yuki featuring Erika Kobayashi and Brian Bergstrom. About a year ago, when I talked with...