Book Subject Tag: Short stories, Japanese, Translations into English
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Other voices, other vistas : short stories from Africa, China, India, Japan, and Latin America
Presents twenty-five contemporary stories by authors from countries and cultures around the world, including selections by Yasunari Kawabata, Yukio Mishima, Yuko Tsushima, Kobo Abe, Sawako Ariyoshi, and others.
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Salmonella men on Planet Porno : stories
A collection of offbeat short stories from an acclaimed Japanese author explores the folly of human desire in a world in which the fantastic and the mundane collide to throw the lives of ordinary men and women into disarray.
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The Best Japanese science fiction stories
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The future is Japanese
Collects thirteen stories from and about Japan, featuring such subjects as the longest and loneliest railroad on Earth, a hollow asteroid full of automated rice paddies, and giant robots.
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Once and forever : the tales of Kenji Miyazawa
The magic of Miyazawa’s tales reaches out to people of all ages and lands. The sophisticated reader can savor them consciously as literature, while the younger reader can delight in them as imaginative stories that comment on and deepen his own experience. The underlying themes are universal, but the forms and treatment can be appreciated…
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Vintage Murakami
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Mandarins : stories
Selections.
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The Mother of dreams and other short stories : portrayals of women in modern Japanese fiction
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Rashomon and seventeen other stories
Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927) is one of Japan’s foremost stylists, a modernist master whose short stories are marked by highly original imagery, cynicism, beauty and wild humour.
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Otogizoshi : the fairy tale book of Dazai Osamu