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“Many well-known writers have cited this novel as a key influence. Without it, the landscape of contemporary Japanese literature would surely look very different.” Read more...
The Best 20th Century Japanese Novels
Rie Qudan, Novelist
Our most recommended books
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Depression in Japan: Psychiatric Cures for a Society in Distress
by Junko Kitanaka -
The Taming of the Samurai: Honorific Individualism and the Making of Modern Japan
by Eiko Ikegami -
Lust, Commerce, and Corruption: An Account of What I Have Seen and Heard, by an Edo Samurai
Mark Teeuwen and Kate Wildman Nakai (eds) -
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
by Haruki Murakami & translated by Jay Rubin -
The Inugami Curse
by Seishi Yokomizo & Yumiko Yamazaki (translator) -
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
by Hayao Miyazaki
