Stone Bridge Cafe is a bi-weekly online series from Stone Bridge Press devoted to bringing readers short stories, poems, non-fiction pieces, photographs, and artwork from and/or about East Asia. For submission guidelines and info, follow the link at the bottom of this post. Read More
Black Warrior Review just wrote a comprehensive review of renowned Okinawan writer Shun Medoruma's novel In the Woods of Memory,
eloquently asserting that "Medoruma asks after not only the lives of survivors, but also after the half-life of trauma, to measure how long it echoes."
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In this Guardian Q&A, bestselling author of A Little Life Hanya Yanagihara names one of our titles, Evening Clouds by Junzo Shono, as her go-to book gift. We couldn't agree more! Read More
Stone Bridge Cafe is a bi-weekly online series from Stone Bridge Press devoted to bringing readers short stories, poems, non-fiction pieces, photographs, and artwork from and/or about East Asia. For submission guidelines and info, follow the link at the bottom of this post. Read More
Fresh from winning one of the two 2017-2018 Japan-United States Friendship Commission Prizes for his English translation of Kansuke Naka's classic Japanese
memoir The Silver Spoon, we sat down with renowned translator,
poet and author Hiroaki Sato to discuss his particular approach to translating literary works from Japanese into English.
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The Nichi Bei Weekly, a Japanese-American community-focused publication
based in San Francisco, recently reviewed Shun Medoruma's In the Woods of Memory, calling it "a tapestry
of trauma in Okinawa" that "offers an in-depth look at the residual of war."
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Stone Bridge Cafe is a bi-weekly online series from Stone Bridge Press devoted to bringing readers short stories, poems, non-fiction pieces, photographs, and artwork from and/or about East Asia. For submission guidelines and info, follow the link at the bottom of this post.
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Congratulations to SBP author and translator Hiroaki Sato for winning one of the two 2017-2018 Japan-United States Friendship Commission Prizes for his English translation of Kansuke Naka's classic Japanese memoir The Silver Spoon, a sharp detailing of life at the end of the Meiji period (1912) through the eyes of a boy as he grows into adolescence. Read More
In the United States and most other countries around the world, young men and women are legally recognized as adults at the age of 18. However, in a handful of nations this milestone is not acknowledged until later in life. One of those countries is Japan, where the age of majority is attained on a person’s 20th birthday. Read More
An unforgettable memoir of the horrors suffered by a Japanese family trapped in Changchun, China, at the end of WW2
A documentary manga biography of the influential artist and the birth and evolution of manga and anime in Japan.
Of special interest to scholars and students of Zen classics, a glossary of specialized vocabulary to aid understanding and practice
A powerful and thought-provoking novel that raises important questions about World War II, war memory, and US imperialism and blowback.
Marc Peter Keane's personal journey through 100 Japanese gardens, looking at them with a designer’s eye.
