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Showing posts with label Japanese translation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Japanese translation. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 5, 2026

MURDER AT THE END OF THE WORLD, Pushkin Vertigo brings prize-winning debut Japanese mystery to Anglophones

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MURDER AT THE END OF THE WORLD AKANE ARAKI (tr. Jesse Kirkwood) Pushkin Vertigo ( non-affiliate Bookshop.org link) $13.99 ebook, ava...
Wednesday, May 20, 2026

THE TRAITOR, last major novel of Kōbō Abe's to reach Anglophones

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THE TRAITOR KŌBŌ ABE (tr. Mark Gibeau) Columbia University Press ( non-affiliate Bookshop.org link) $26.40 paper...
Monday, March 30, 2026

SISTERS IN YELLOW, exploring women's wrongs in Women's History Month

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SISTERS IN YELLOW MIEKO KAWAKAMI (tr. Laurel Taylor & Hitomi Yoshio) Alfred A. Knopf ( non-affiliate Bookshop.org link) $14.99 e...
Saturday, February 7, 2026

LION CROSS POINT, short novella about the magic moment kidhood ends

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LION CROSS POINT MASATSUGU ONO (tr. Angus Turvill) Two Lines Press ( non-affiliate Amazon link) $9.99 Kindle edition, available now ...
Friday, December 19, 2025

THE BLACK SWAN MYSTERY, looking back nigh-on seventy years at a crime that rings familiar bells today

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THE BLACK SWAN MYSTERY (Inspector Onitsura #1) TETSUYA AYUKAWA (tr. Bryan Karetnyk) Pushkin Vertigo ( non-affiliate Bookshop.org lin...
Thursday, December 18, 2025

THE MEIJI GUILLOTINE MURDERS, seeing the birth of Japan's modern police

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THE MEIJI GUILLOTINE MURDERS FUTARO YAMADA (tr. Bryan Karetnyk) Pushkin Vertigo ( non-affiliate Bookshop.org link) $12.99 ebook, ava...
Saturday, September 27, 2025

MURDER IN THE HOUSE OF OMARI, modern iteration of the Japanese locked-room mystery

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MURDER IN THE HOUSE OF OMARI TAKU ASHIBE (tr. Bryan Karetnyk) Pushkin Vertigo ( non-affiliate Bookshop.org link) $12.99 ebook availa...

THE TOKYO ZODIAC MURDERS, a fair-play, betcha-you-won't-solve-it Japanese locked room mystery

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THE TOKYO ZODIAC MURDERS SŌJI SHIMADA (tr. Ross MacKenzie & Shika MacKenzie) Pushkin Vertigo ( non-affiliate Bookshop.o...
Friday, September 12, 2025

SYMPATHY TOWER TOKYO, so very timely; so very deep; not very lovable

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SYMPATHY TOWER TOKYO RIE QUDAN (tr. Jesse Kirkwood) Summit Books ( non-affiliate Bookshop.org link) $27.00 hardcover, available now ...
Wednesday, August 27, 2025

THE STORY OF A SINGLE WOMAN, written in 1972 and still dividing opinion

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THE STORY OF A SINGLE WOMAN UNO CHIYO (tr. Rebecca Copeland) Pushkin Press Classics ( non-affiliate Bookshop.org link) $12.99 ebook,...
Saturday, March 1, 2025

POPULAR HITS OF THE SHOWA ERA, reposting my 2010 review

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POPULAR HITS OF THE SHOWA ERA RYU MURAKAMI (tr. Ralph McCarthy) W.W. Norton ( non-affiliate Amazon link) $9.99 ebook edition, availa...
Monday, February 24, 2025

A HUNDRED YEARS AND A DAY: 34 Stories defies all the Japanese-fiction expectations by embracing the form

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A HUNDRED YEARS AND A DAY: 34 Stories TOMOKA SHIBASAKI (tr. Polly Barton) MONKEY/Stone Bridge Press ( non-affiliate Amazon link) $9....
Friday, January 17, 2025

STRANGE PICTURES, aptly titled off-kilter murder-mystery narrative translated from Japanese

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STRANGE PICTURES UKETSU (tr. Jim Rion) HarperVia ( non-affiliate Amazon link) $13.99 Kindle edition, available now Rating: 4* of f...
Monday, September 30, 2024

THE SEISHI YOKOMIZO PAGE (3): THE LITTLE SPARROW MURDERS & THE DEVIL'S FLUTE MURDERS, fifth and sixth of the Kindaichi series translated into English

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THE LITTLE SPARROW MURDERS SEISHI YOKIMIZO (Kosuke Kindaichi #6; tr. Bryan Karetnyk) Pushkin Vertigo ( non-affiliate Amazon link) $1...
Saturday, September 28, 2024

A BOOK I READ FOR MY LONG-AGO BOOK CIRCLE: SNOW COUNTRY by Nobel-winner YASUNARI KAWABATA

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SNOW COUNTRY YASUNARI KAWABATA (tr. Edward G. Seidensticker) Vintage Books $11.99 Kindle edition, available now Rating: 3.5* of five...
Monday, August 26, 2024

LONELY CASTLE IN THE MIRROR, #WITMonth Japanese YA fantasy page-turner

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LONELY CASTLE IN THE MIRROR MIZUKI TSUJIMURA (tr. Philip Gabriel) Erewhon Books $27.95 hardcover, available now Rating: 4.5* of five...
Wednesday, May 8, 2024

THE KOTARO ISAKA PAGE: The Assassins series, THREE ASSASSINS & BULLET TRAIN, as they're best experienced

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THREE ASSASSINS KOTARO ISAKA (tr. Sam Malissa) Abrams ( non-affiliate Amazon link) $9.99 Kindle edition, available now Rating: 3.5...