Takuji Ichikawa and Soji Shimada two members of Red Circle, the curated group of award-winning Japanese writers, have joined other renowned Japanese authors contributing newly… Read more »
The Red Circle author Fuminori Nakamura, who is known for penning fast-paced narratives that hypnotically blend psychological suspense with literary fiction, has a new paperback… Read more »
A new edition of If I Were You… (moshimo watashi ga anata dattara) by the Naoki prize-winning author Kazufumi Shiraishi was published in Japan today… Read more »
Last week Gentosha, a Japanese publisher based in Tokyo’s trendy Shibuya district best known for its literary magazines and manga, published a tanko-bon, hardback, edition… Read more »
Can’t Write A Novel Without You, Kimi ga inaito shosetsu wa kakenai, a new 443-page novel by the Naoki prize-winning author Kazufumi Shiraishi, was released in hardback,… Read more »
The Chronicles of Lord Asunaro, a Japanese tale – not about daring ninja or battling samurai – but a hero, with a very different penchant,… Read more »
In a society rife with conflict and a world on the edge of extinction, who should we turn to for answers: society’s strongest or weakest? This… Read more »
*** Takuji Ichikawa, November 2019 Currently our world faces many crises: climate change, famine due to floods and droughts, unprecedented wealth inequality, regional conflicts,… Read more »