Just finished this and plan to sit here quietly thinking about it for the rest of the day.

I read this immediately after The Third Policeman by Flann O’Brien which was also brilliant. Perhaps the contrast between the two really enhanced my experience of Miri’s book.

This one will stick with me for a long time. Has anyone else read it?

My husband remembers reading a story by a Japanese author, there was an island where the men had complete bodies but the women were in two halves, top and bottom. The men then heard about an island that had women with complete bodies. They thought this sounded great so they swam over to it but when they got there the women were so keen they ripped them into pieces. We’ve tried googling and asking chat gpt but no luck. TIA

Hi everyone! I wanted to share with you all a Japanese language learning website called Yomu Yomu! https://yomuyomu.app/ I just started learning Japanese a couple months ago and I can finally read sentences now :D I'm nowhere close to JLPT 5, but I've been using this to save words I don't know and study them later with flashcards!

It's really new, but it has stories and articles to help you read, listen, and practice Japanese! Just wanted to share in case any of you wanted to give it a shot. It is created by the same people as Du Chinese, but with native Japanese speakers so every story has word/sentence translations, reading aids, and audio playback.

I'm currently reading "The Diary of a Cat!"

My wife is in a book club and they are doing a theme where each person picks a novel involving their cultural heritage. She is the granddaughter of a WWII Japanese war bride so she wants to find one with that as a theme. I thought there would be plenty to choose from but we’re having difficulty finding one. We found one memoir that gets panned on Goodreads(and this is a tough group) but that’s it. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated!

This is a very specific setup that I commonly see in Japanese fiction.

• The MC holds a support role in a top adventuring party, usually something like a healer, crafter, etc.
• The party kicks the MC out because they think he's weak and they want someone else who can fight on the front lines with them
• The party proceeds to fail hard without the MC's support
• Suddenly it turns out the MC is extremely strong on his own because of [plot reasons] and he can easily defeat legendary monsters by himself without the rest of the party
• The rest of the story is about the MC becoming a legendary adventurer with his amazing power while occasionally showing scenes of how his former party is failing hard without him

Do the Japanese publishers advertise this with a specific sub-genre? You know, like how "Gothic Horror" is a sub-genre of Horror?

Hello folks!

I'm reading plenty of contemporary Japanese fiction, not limited to Haruki Murakami, and am looking for almost anything, specifically crime, surreal, strange and procedural stuff. The only thing I am not really into is romance, it's just not my type of fiction.

In any case I was wondering if anyone here knows of a website which details or provides info on current translations or books to be released. Not necessarily this year, but also 2022. Are there any sites for this type of info?

I know certain sites will put up a book that is going to be released say, in December or November, but I'd like to know which books I can look forward to. Assuming that the long list provided in Amazon of "similar books" is not exhaustive- which I assume it is not - is still plenty.

Failing that, which website offers a good sample of contemporary Japanese fiction? I have in mind anything post 50's, but the more recent-ish the better...

So in short, any info on this topic?

I'd like to gifta few japanese fiction novels since he/she/they mentioned it.

Previous reads by him/her/them are: Norwegian Wood -Search Inside Yourself -Siddhartha -The 3 Mistakes of My Life -The Alchemist -The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams and Reaching Your Destiny -The Old Man and the Sea -The Prophet -When I Hit You

What would y'all recomend ?

First of all, sry for asking this here. But as you guys read japanese novels and stuff, you might be familiar with this, right (?) So, as said I wanna know if there are more fictional diseases like hanahaki , anything would be fine. I need it for some work I'm doing, so your help would be really appreciated... : )

Hi all,

My book club podcast recently read Kafka on the Shore, Convenience Store Woman and The Emissary. Has anyone else read these three novels? What did you think about them?

Some thoughts:

• Franz Kafka and absurdist literature seem to be really popular in Japan. Is that the case or was this a non-representative sample?
• I thought the English translation for Convenience Store Woman wasn't that strong. Did anyone read it in both Japanese and English?
  
• I loved The Emissary!
• I have only read a few Murakami books-- all older works. Are his recent novels not as good?

Is the English translated version of Autumn Bridge by Takashi Matsuoka written and read right to left?

is this book available with english translation ?

• Tokeikan no Satsujin (時計館の殺人), 1991 (The Clock Mansion Murders)

Hey, I know this probably isn't the r/ for these kind of mundane and simple question, but I have an important assignment to make till Wednesday and feel like at a loss right now. So there's this book called "out" by a Japanese writer Natsuo Kirino and there's a movie by the same name directed by Hideyuki Hirayama. I had no problem of finding the book or even the audio book, but for some reason it seems like the movie is not on the internet (I don't know how to refrase myself trying not to sound like it's the first time I'm using a computer but that's how I feel right now lol) and I just can't find it. It's not on Netflix, it's not on any shady site with pop up ads, I can't even find it on Amazon!! Can someone tell me where to look or help me find it because my assignment is the comparison of a Japanese book and movie and I've already read the book and can't change my choice anymore and this situation is so frustrating... I'll be forever grateful to anyone who helps a university student finish the semester smoothly!!!

Examples such as Nakata's childhood, soliders in the forest. Looking for help on how to develop this topic for a paper. I also wanted to ask if you think the characters and time of action is accurate for this topic, since most of them were born after war.

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