Women's Fiction

- April 4, 2018
- Primeval Trolls and Eating Disorders: Grim tales from Japan
  
  by Richard Nathan
  Nobody can escape childhood without some exposure to monsters, demons, witches, or trolls. Be they tales about the lovable ogre Shrek, the Devil, Harry Potter,… Read more »
  - TOPICS:
  - Roger Pulvers
  - Feature
  - Children's
  - Culture
  - Folk Tales
  - Women's Fiction
- September 2, 2017
- Bridget Jones and the Chick-Lit of ancient Japan
  
  by Richard Nathan
  The amazing success of Bridget Jones’s Diary, by Helen Fielding, published in 1996 in book format is said to have given birth to the genre… Read more »
  - TOPICS:
  - Mitsuyo Kakuta
  - Randy Taguchi
  - Feature
  - Romance
  - Women Writers
  - Women's Fiction
- February 7, 2017
- Romancing Japan: Bonkbusters and the land of the rising sun
  
  by Richard Nathan
  When we hear the term bonkbuster we immediately think of the 1980s and books with titles like: Lace, The Bitch, Savages, The Stud, Hollywood Wives,… Read more »
  - TOPICS:
  - Feature
  - Romance
  - Women Writers
  - Women's Fiction