Currently reading: Troubled Waters by Ichiyō Higuchi, translated by Bryan Karetnyk. Five short stories from Japan’s first professional female author. #BookSky #JapaneseLit #WomenInTranslation

Garden Check out Garden - <p>Crabs scurrying over a landfill. Huge tadpoles writhing in a pond. A gecko stuck to the window. A sudden invasion of ants. Nature mysteriously creeps in and overruns the realm of...

omgggg there's a new Hiroko Oyamada coming out this year!!!!!

@ndbooks.bsky.social I BEG you for an ebook ARC 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

bookshop.org/a/6998/97808... #booksky #japaneselit #womenintranslation

Currently reading: The Soul Catchers by Naoko Higashi, translated by Lucy North. A short story collection about departed souls being able to inhabit inanimate objects close to their loved ones. #BookSky #JapaneseLit #WomenInTranslation

Translating Uketsu's Strange Mysteries With Jim Rion An inside look at how STRANGE PICTURES and its two sequels became a global sensation, from the translator who was there from the very start.

The awsome Michelle Delgado of the Scare Me! Newsletter very graciously interviewed me about horror (Japanese et al.) and translating Uketsu, and it is now live!
I really need to work on my verbal tics. Way too many "like"s and "very"s...
#Uketsu #StrangeBuildings #JapaneseLit #Translation

Currently reading: Hooked by Asako Yuzuki, translated by Polly Barton. An obsessive friendship blooms between a woman working for a seafood manufacturer and a homemaker blogger. #BookSky #JapaneseLit #WomenInTranslation

Currently reading: Sisters in Yellow by Mieko Kawakami, translated by Laurel Taylor and Hitomi Yoshio. Flashbacking from 2020 to 1990s Tokyo, four women live together and run a bar while surviving the struggles and darkness of society and themselves. #BookSky #JapaneseLit #WomenInTranslation

Listen to me talk! The Japan Association of Translators Book special interest group has invited me to speak online about my budding career as a literary translator and my work translating Uketsu. I plan to lay out how I got started on this path, the luck behind the Uketsu translations, and perhaps find some advice for those looking to get into the game themselves. &hellip;

Jim is giving an online talk about translating Japanese books, especially Strange ones! Come and listen!
#JapaneseLit #xl8 #Translation #LiteraryTranslation #Uketsu

Currently reading: Strange Buildings by Uketsu, translated by Jim Rion. An author and his draughtsman friend attempt to solve and connect the mysteries behind eleven strange building floor plans. #BookSky #JapaneseLit

Thanks for having me on to talk!
#Uketsu #JapaneseLit #Translation #Books

Currently reading: Sakura by Kanako Nishi, translated by Allison Markin Powell. After experiencing a tragedy, a dysfunctional family tries to reunite but the only healthy commonality between them is their pet dog. #BookSky #JapaneseLit #WomenInTranslation

Currently reading: The Glass Tower Murders by Mikito Chinen. A billionaire mystery fiction aficionado summons a group of people to his glass tower shaped mansion where a snowslide traps them all there as murders occur. #BookSky #JapaneseLit

JATBOOK Webinar: A Strange Turn of Events: Lessons from an accidental literary translator | Japan Association of Translators

I'll be talking online about how I ended up becoming a "literary translator" and hopefully people will find it amusing, at least, if not helpful. April 18th! Free for JAT members, ¥500 for students, ¥2,000 for others.
#Xl8 #Translation #JapaneseLit

Three books by Hiroko Oyamada: The Factory, The Hole, and Weasels in the Attic.

Three books by Mieko Kawakami: Breasts and Eggs, Heaven, and Ms. Ice Sandwich.

Two books by Sayaka Murata: Convenience Store Woman and Earthlings.

Diary of a Void by Emi Yagi and Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa.

Instead of #Murakami, try these Japanese authors:

Hiroko Oyamada
Mieko Kawakami
Sayaka Murata
Emi Yagi
Satoshi Yagisawa

#booksky #translatedlit #japaneselit #japanesefiction #amreading

It's been a busy semester at LRR, but our staff is always reading and discovering new media we love! Here are Sofia's current reads and watches and her thoughts on them! 

#uconn #Longriverreview #heatedrivalry #shanehollander #ilyarozanov #Japaneselit

Currently reading: The Cape and Other Stories from the Japanese Ghetto by Kenji Nakagami, translated by Eve Zimmerman. A novella and two short stories following the lives and struggles of outcasts in Japanese society. #BookSky #JapaneseLit

Currently reading: Hollow Inside by Asako Otani, translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori. Rejecting the social pressures of marriage and family, a woman in her late thirties decides to be roommates with another single female friend instead. #BookSky #JapaneseLit #WomenInTranslation

Translating The Ark I do, in fact, translate more than just Uketsu books, and on February 12th the latest such was released in the UK. The Ark by Haruo Yuki. The Ark is a mystery/thriller in the honkaku mode. It tells the story of a group of seven friends from university who meet up and hike to an old abandoned underground facility one of them found.

Jim talks about his latest translation, The Ark. It's a dark mystery with an ending that lingers long after you close the book. Out now in the UK! #Books #Mystery #TheArk #JapaneseLit

Currently reading: The Ark by Haruo Yuki, translated by Jim Rion. Ten people lost in the mountains find shelter in a cult’s abandoned underground facility. An earthquake causes it to flood and murders occur with the exit mechanism requiring one person to be sacrificed. #BookSky #JapaneseLit

Currently reading: A View by the Sea by Shōtarō Yasuoka, translated by Kären Wigen. A short story collection with themes of losing literal and figurative concepts of home. #BookSky #JapaneseLit

Currently reading: Shame in the Blood by Tetsuo Miura, translated by Andrew Driver. A newlywed man struggles to adjust to the concept of happiness because of his paranoia that his bloodline is cursed. #BookSky #JapaneseLit

Currently reading: About a Place in the Kinki Region by Sesuji, translated by Michael Blaskowsky. A horror novel collected from a missing journalist’s research on the paranormal and unexplained strangeness surrounding a rural mountainous area. #BookSky #JapaneseLit

Currently reading: Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness by Kenzaburō Ōe, translated by John Nathan. Four novellas centered around themes of losing and regaining a sense of identity and purpose. #BookSky #JapaneseLit

Currently reading: He’s Leaving Home: My Young Son Becomes a Zen Monk by Kiyohiro Miura, translated by Jeff Shore. A novella following a father’s thoughts and feelings as his son grows up with wishes to become a monk at a nearby temple. #BookSky #JapaneseLit

Currently reading: Kiki’s Delivery Service by Eiko Kadono, translated by Emily Balistrieri with illustrations by Yuta Onoda. I already own the first translation by Lynne E. Riggs but I bought this because the second book is finally out in English in August! #BookSky #JapaneseLit #WomenInTranslation

The Best Translated Japanese Fiction Books of 2025 Introducing ten of our favorite translated Japanese fiction books from 2025, to put on your list for the new year.

For fans of Japanese literature, here's a list of ten recent English translations of fiction works. Have you read any of these yet?

If not, now is the perfect time to pick one up and get started!

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#Bookworms #JapaneseLit #EnglishTranslation #JETAA #Japan

Currently reading: Jackson Alone by Jose Ando, translated by Kalau Almony. Four queer Black-Japanese men team up to get revenge on the bigoted society around them after they’re each mistaken for a man in a viral sex video. #BookSky #JapaneseLit

Only on day 5 but time for a read cosy, the sequel to Days at the Morisaki Bookstore.
#japaneselit #booksky 💙📚

Sympathy Tower Tokyo Rie Qudan’s short novel Sympathy Tower Tokyo, which was awarded an Akutagawa Prize in 2023, is a story about language, generative AI, and the culture war discourse surrounding the construction of a…

Rie Qudan's Sympathy Tower Tokyo is a short literary novel about architecture, language, culture wars, and LLMs. The book is intellectually demanding but also very fun, and it has Jorge Luis Borges vibes in the best possible way. #Japaneselit #booksky 📚 japaneselit.net/2025/11/22/s...

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Currently reading: My Grandfather, the Master Detective by Masateru Konishi, translated by Louise Heal Kawai. An avid mystery fiction fan who encounters mysteries in everyday life gets help solving them from her grandfather with dementia. #BookSky #JapaneseLit