Sep 23, 2019Author Doris Bargen blurbs 'Forty Seven Samurai'Doris G. Bargen, Professor Emeritus of the University of Massachusetts Amherst and author of Suicidal Honor: General Nogi and the Writings o
Sep 16, 2019Pulitzer Prize-Winning Writer, Forrest Gander blurbs 'Forty-Seven SamuraiPulitzer Prize-Winning writer/poet, Forrest Gander has provided his thoughts on Hiroaki Sato's, Forty-Seven Samurai.
Sep 9, 2019Prof. Allan Sosei Palmer blurbs on Hiroaki Sato's newest, 'The Forty-Seven Samurai'Tea Master Allan Sosei Palmer, a student and teacher of the Urasenke school of Chanoyu for more than forty years contributes his thoughts on
Aug 19, 2019"Understanding the challenging world of the literary translator"This intriguing article from Louise George Kittaka for The Japan Times sheds a little light on the struggles of bringing some of the greates
Apr 29, 2019'Oh, Tama!' by Mieko Kanai available nowWe are proud to announce that, Oh, Tama!: A Mejiro Novel by Mikeo Kanai, translated by Tomoko Aoyama and Paul McCarthy is now available from
Feb 25, 2019'A Shameful Life' by Osamu Dazai reviewed by the Asian Review of BooksJohn Darwin Van Fleet goes into extensive detail in his Asian Review of Books review for the new Mark Gibeau translation of the Osamu Dazai
Jan 24, 2019'A Shameful Life' by Osamu Dazai reviewed by The Japan Society UK Review"Ningen Shikkaku (translated as ‘A Shameful Life’) still persists as one of the most widely read and critically acclaimed novels in Japan.
Jan 7, 2019Millions includes Tracy Franz's 'My Year of Dirt and Water' to their end of the year reading listA big thank you to Letitia Montgomery-Rodgers and The Millions or including My Year of Dirt and Water: Journal of a Zen Monk's Wife in Japan