The Flowers of Tomorrow
The Flowers of Tomorrow 明日咲く花 (Ashita saku hana) MIYAMOTO Yuriko (宮本百合子) November 1946 Looking at the history of literature, one can see that it is always in times when the […]
A Few Notes on Reading ‘Diary of a Vagabond’
This post is based on a short presentation I gave at Waseda University last year, as part of my research there. Publication history Hayashi Fumiko’s ‘Hōrōki’ (『放浪記』, referred to throughout […]
Yu Miri’s ‘Tokyo Ueno Station’
My translation of Yu Miri’s Tokyo Ueno Station (『JR上野駅公園口』) will be out in April 2019 from Tilted Axis Press—six years after I first wrote about her here.
Japan Now 2018 (or Slow Boat to Chinatown)
Japan Now, a British festival celebrating contemporary Japanese literature and art, is now in its third year. What a magical thing it is to bring authors from Japan to meet people who love their books.
Japan on Japan: What the World Should Be Reading
Motoyuki Shibata and Gen’ichiro Takahashi’s lists of Japanese books they recommend to the rest of the world are interesting in and of themselves.
Mentor Yourself in Literary Translation!
If you don’t have the time or money to do an MA in literary translation or you’re isolated from other translators, mentor yourself at home. I’ll show you how.
Read Her Now: Five Women to Translate in 2015
Five more Japanese woman authors you should be reading.
