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The Cape And Other Stories from the Japanese Ghetto
The burakumin—an outcaste class—are depicted in gritty language and stark detail. “The Cape” is a breakthrough novella about a burakumin community and their struggles with complicated family histories and troubled memories. Includes “House on Fire” and “Red Hair.”
Kenji Nakagami (1946-92) was a prolific novelist and short story writer who was admired as much for his prose style as his depictions of the burakumin. He received the prestigious Akutagawa Prize for “The Cape” in 1976.
Translator Eve Zimmerman is Assistant Professor of Japanese literature at Wellesley College and received the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for Translation in 1992.
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Death March on Mount Hakkoda: A Documentary Novel
In a military training mission gone tragically wrong, 210 soldiers ascend Mount Hakkoda in the dead of winter and only eleven return. This fictionalized account of a true incident remains one of Japan’s most poignant stories about soldiers’ courage and the dangers of reckless leadership.
Jiro Nitta was born in mountainous Nagano Prefecture in 1912. He was imprisoned in a war camp in 1945. Winner of the esteemed Naoki Prize for Fiction in 1956, Nitta was one of Japan’s most popular authors at the time of his death in Tokyo in 1980.
Tranlsator James Westerhoven teaches at Hirosaki University, in the shadow of Mount Hakkoda.
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The Inugami Clan
A gothic murder mystery from Japan’s most popular mystery writer. In 1940s Japan, the wealthy head of the Inugami Clan dies, setting off a chain of bizarre, gruesome murders. In order to find the murderer, Detective Kindaichi must unravel the clan’s terrible secrets of forbidden liaisons, monstrous cruelty, and disguised identities.
Seishi Yokomizo is Japan's most popular mystery writer. His novels have been made into countless movies and TV dramas in Japan.
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Milky Way Railroad
One night, alone on a hilltop, a young boy is swept aboard a magical train bound for the Milky Way. A classic in Japan, this tender fable that treats the boy’s journey as a metaphor for afterlife is a book of great wisdom.
Kenji Miyazawa (1896–1933), a teacher, author, poet, and scientist, was one of Japan’s greatest storytellers.
Translator
Joseph Sigrist lived in northern Japan for many years and has taught religion and Arthurian literature. Translator D.M. Stroud is a poet, translator, and teacher who has lived in Japan since 1975.
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