Book review: Guilt MY VERDICT: Higashino is back, with deep characters, cultural richness, and a moral puzzle that keeps you guessing — and hungry!

#Pubday: Guilt by #KeigoHigashino #Japaneseliterature
MY VERDICT:
Higashino is back, with deep characters, cultural richness, and a moral puzzle that keeps you guessing — and hungry!
Check my full #bookreview
wordsandpeace.com/2026/02/25/b...

4 Colorful Friends and My Colorless Self
— A Story to Read When You Feel Empty

A favorite works by Haruki Murakami.

Feel free to take a peek!
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#JapaneseLiterature #harukimurakami #selfreflection
#Bookish #Bookworm #Booklovers #Reading

Take a chance, you can learn a new craft, recipe, even language! Apply for a free library card, and learn about a whole culture!🫰🏻🇯🇵💚 I’m not 100% about all areas this is available in so please look into it!

🏷️: #japanfoundation #japanfoundationlibrary #japaneseliterature #library #literature

My favorite character is the devil

#gerryreads #japanesenovel #japaneseliterature #japanesemovie

My favorite character is the cat, Kobako

#gerryreads #japanesenovel #japaneseliterature

Now reading
Mishima: Spring Snow
First part of Yukio Mishima's The Sea of Fertility-tetralogy

#YukioMishima #TheSeaOfFertility #JapaneseLiterature #ClassicLiterature #SpringSnow
#NowReading

Today's mail; Yukio Mishima's The Sea of Fertility-tetralogy

#YukioMishima #TheSeaOfFertility #JapaneseLiterature #ClassicLiterature #DeathIsTheMartyrOfBeauty

Writer Mieko Kawakami on Sisterhood, Survival, and Finding Hope in the Darkness lithub.com/mieko-kawaka...
#writing #writers #japaneseliterature #novels #translation #writingcommunity

Writer Mieko Kawakami on Sisterhood, Survival, and Finding Hope in the Darkness lithub.com/mieko-kawaka...
#writing #writers #japaneseliterature #novels #translation #writingcommunity

My thoughts on Murder in the Crooked House
by Sōji Shimada, Louise Heal Kawai (translator)
#Mystery #Fiction #Japan #Crime #Thriller #JapaneseLiterature #bookreview #bookSky
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How I envy maple leafage
Which turns beautiful
Then falls.

📙Complete Haiku, 1700s 🍁
✍️Kagami Shikō (Japanese Haiku Poet) 🍁

🖼️October – Autumn Tints, 1920 🍁
🎨Nakayama Shuko (Japanese Artist) 🍁

#japaneseliterature

🌸 That's really a smart move! Using #JapaneseLiterature to sell candy! Really smart business practice!🍭
#Japan #LandOfTheRisingSun #Japanese #Nippon #JapaneseLiterature #JapanLiterature #JapaneseCandy #JapanCandy #JapaneseChildren'sBook #JapanChildren'sBook #FushigiDagashiyaZenitendo
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"Das casting"von Ryū Murakami

"Lügen werden nicht vergeben."

Also nach dem lesen dieses Buches von Ryū Murakami, kann ich es verstehen, wieso es in der Bibliothek unter der Rubrik 'Psychothriller' gelistet ist.

#LeWo0126 #japaneseLiterature #booksky

An audiobook I recently listened to: What You Are Looking for is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama. I loved this one, though one of the voice actors annoyed me w/how he voiced Ms. Komachi, the librarian. I’m actually listening to it twice, so safe to say I recommend.
#booksky #japaneseliterature

When Persistence Pays Off: On Translating and Publishing the Work of Kanako Nishi This is one of those publishing stories where the author—and in this case the translator too—waited for years, certain that their work deserved a wider audience, and was forced to stand patiently b…

So glad to see Kanako Nishi published in English, translated by Allison Markin Powell, at long last. Do read Sakura, it’s wonderful - I couldn’t put it down!
#translation #booksky #japaneseliterature

Books 29 & 30 of 2026: Bakokak, by Gerry Alanguilan & Kevin Ray Valentino; Vanishing World, by Sayaka Murata. #yishreads #philippineliterature #japaneseliterature

"Man sagt, die Seele eines dreijährigen Kindes ändert sich nicht mehr."

"Baumschatten" (jap.樹影譚) von Maruya Saiichi ist mit ca.100 Seiten recht schmal, aber erzählt auf interessanten weise, die vorliebe des Protagonisten zu Baumschatten. 🌳

#japaneseLiterature #booksky #bücher

𝑊𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑢𝑛𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡
𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑐𝑎𝑚𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑎
𝑏𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑚𝑠.

📔𝐶𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑡𝑒 𝐻𝑎𝑖𝑘𝑢, 1800𝑠 ✿
✍️𝐾𝑜𝑏𝑎𝑦𝑎𝑠ℎ𝑖 𝐼𝑠𝑠𝑎 (𝐽𝑎𝑝𝑎𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝑃𝑜𝑒𝑡) ✿

🖼️𝐶𝑎𝑚𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑎 𝑖𝑛 𝑊𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟, 1991 ✿
🎨𝑊𝑎𝑖𝑐ℎ𝑖 𝐻𝑎𝑦𝑎𝑠ℎ𝑖 (𝐽𝑎𝑝𝑎𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝐴𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑠𝑡) ✿

#japaneseliterature

Book review: Guilt MY VERDICT: Higashibo is back, with deep characters, cultural richness, and a moral puzzle that keeps you guessing — and hungry!

#Book #review of the upcoming #mystery by #KeigoHigashino: Guilt #Japaneseliterature #Japaneseliteraturechallenge #JLC19 wordsandpeace.com/2026/02/25/b...

MY VERDICT:
Higashibo is back, with deep characters, cultural richness, and a moral puzzle that keeps you guessing — and hungry!

‘The Textual Townsman’ by Thomas Gaubatz (Review) After the last couple of #JanuaryInJapan posts saw us spending time in the Heian Era, we’re skipping forward a good few centuries today for the final review post of the month, with our focus …

“An enjoyable enough read about the era, the writers and (of course) the townsmen themselves.” — Tony’s Reading List on THE TEXTUAL TOWNSMAN buff.ly/XiDqCRQ #BookReview #JapaneseLiterature #HistoryBooks #JLit

Exhibition
Seeds in the Heart
Donald Keene
2025.11.15-2026.3.8
at Setagaya Literary Museum, Minami-Karasuyama, Tokyo
#DonaldKeene (18/06/1922-24/02/2019)
#JapaneseLiterature #LiteraryCriticism

Finished reading: #AfterTheQuake by #HarukiMurakami
2.23.26

Ribbit, ribbit, Mr. Earthquake Man.

#JapaneseLiterature
#ShortStories
#Kobe
#Japan
#earthquake
#booksky

Amazon.co.jp: ENTROPY P 電子書籍: Masanao Kata: Kindleストア Amazon.co.jp: ENTROPY P 電子書籍: Masanao Kata: Kindleストア

#Poems: ENTROPY P — now on Amazon #Kindle.
Quiet. Dark. Uncompromising.
Poems of silence, suffering, and fractured perception by an unknown Japanese poet.
Ambiguity preserved. Comfort not included.
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#Poetry #JapaneseLiterature #poetryphilosophy #DarkPoetry #poetrytranslation

#MurderEveryMonday #KeigoHigashino #JapaneseLiterature #JLC19

Any Book, Any Time: Mornings With My Cat Mii Flip the ticket back to 0, it’s another Japanese cat book. Of all the books I’ve read so far, this is the one that is very much about the cat and not about other things that a cat is a …

Now that I'm back in the swing of things...
New book review out! Mornings With My Cat Mii by Mayumi Inaba
#bookreview #morningswithmycatmii #mayuminaba #catbook #japaneseliterature
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Buch von Cees Noteboom "Mokusei!" - eine Liebesgeschichte aus dem suhrkamp verlag

Zum Tod von Cees Nooteboom "Mokusei!" gelesen.
Ein schmales Büchleich von nur 75 Seiten, über eine geschichte, die die unterschiedlichen Kulturen und unsere westliche Sicht von einem Japan, welches eigentlich nicht wirklich so gibt, aufzeigt.

#JapaneseLiterature #Literature #booksky

Book Review: The Luminous Fairies and Mothra Book Review: The Luminous Fairies and Mothra written by Shin’ichro Nakamura, Takehiko Fukunaga & Yoshie Hotta, translated by Jeffrey Angles. The remote Infant Island, somewhere in the Pac…

This is the novella #Mothra was based on! #BookSky #Kaiju #JapaneseLiterature #Fantasy #TheLuminousFairiesAndMothra www.skjam.com/2026/02/11/b...

Buch "richtig gutes Essen" von Junko Takase vom Dumont verlag.

"Richtig gutes essen" von Junko Takase (jap.おいしいごはんが食べられますように)und der name ist Programm in diesem Buch.
Essen und die Gesellschaftlichen Erwartungen, klug und humorvoll auf 157 Seiten verpackt.

Gewinner des Akutagawa-Preis 2022.

Übersetzt von Yoko Ann Hamann.

#japaneseLiterature #booksky

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I never realised, but CD Japan is actually pretty good for physical Japanese books.
Today I bought three Japanese paperbacks and it came to just over £16, and that's including delivery to the UK! The cheapest mode of delivery (air mail), but if you're not in a hurry...
#日本文学 #JapaneseLiterature

I'm really enjoying my foray into Japanese lit and bought these two a couple of months ago and forgot. Anybody else buy books and forget about them?
#booksky 💙📚
#japaneseliterature