Author: Hideyuki Kikuchi
Translator: Ian MacDonald
Thames River Press, September 2013 (ISBN: 978-0-8572-8127-2)
From Japan’s “master of horror,” these historical tales of the supernatural depict the pathos of lower-class samurai (whose lives echo the despair felt by the contemporary Japanese “salaryman”) at a time when swordsmanship was less relevant than practical skills like accountancy....
Author: Katsuhiko Takahashi
Translator: Ian MacDonald
Thames River Press, September 2013 (ISBN: 978-0-8572-8129-6)
Uncover murder and intrigue in the art world in this Edogawa Rampo Prize-winning novel, which explores the real-life mystery behind Sharaku, one of Japan’s most iconic artists. The author, an art historian-turned-writer, weaves serious scholarly research into an ingenious...
Author: Aiko Kitahara
Translator: Ian MacDonald
January 2008, Dalkey Archive Press (ISBN: 978-1-5647-8489-6)
This Naoki Prize-winning work is a personal yet precise account of the lives of working women in the latter half of the Edo period, when the warrior caste was finding itself pushed out of the top echelons of society by the rising merchant class, and famines repeatedly swept the...
Author: Kido Okamoto
Translator: Ian MacDonald
January 2007, University of Hawaii Press (ISBN: 978-0-8248-3100-4)
Written in the 1910s and 20s, Hanshichi torimonocho is a beloved work of popular literature. Told through the eyes of a street-smart detective (loosely modeled on Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes), the work inaugurated Japan’s historical detective genre and spawned stage, radio,...
Everyone,
I am pleased to inform you that the eJuku team has received many
more applications than expected for the Spring 2015 J>E eJuku session.
I wish to inform everyone that the Call is now closed.
All the applicants will be notified of their screening results individually
by private email in due course.
Shuichi Yamakawa
Spring 2015 J>E eJuku session Checker & Coordinator
Fellow JAT members,
When the clock strikes midnight tonight in Japan (00:00:01 JST on February 26) we begin accepting candidacy registrations at < https://jat.wufoo.com/forms/jat-2015-board-candidacy/ >.
The candidacy declaration/registration period ends at 22:00:00 JST, March 11, and the campaigning period starts at 00:00:01 JST, March 13. However, since the Election Committee needs...
Fellow JAT members,
The 2015 JAT election is drawing near.
Please direct any queries to <[email protected]>.
1. Election Committee
The Election Committee has three members, as mandated by the JAT
Bylaws. This year, the committee comprises Andrew Welford (Chair),
Mayu Kawaguchi, and Ben Davis.
2. Number of positions to be filled
The JAT Board currently has a total of 10 officers...
By Takamori Kentetsu, translated by Juliet Carpenter, published by Ichimannendo Publishing, 2011
Even a good person will be born in the Pure Land; how much more so an evil person! Concerning good and evil alike I know nothing at all.
-Shinran
Can you believe these are the words of the great Buddhist master?
Tannisho (Lamenting the Deviations) clarifies the heart of Pure Land Buddhism and...
By Ota Hisashi, translated by Juliet Carpenter, published by Ichimannendo Publishing, 2011/2012
For the First Time – Buddha’s Life Story is Illustrated into Manga
What is happiness?
What’s the point of living the way I do, day in and day out?
Two thousand six hundred years ago, in his youth Buddha (Sakyamuni) had the same nagging questions that we do today.
He never avoided them or gave up...
Information, Corporate Governance, and Institutional Diversity: Competitiveness in Japan, the USA, and the Transitional Economies
By Masahiko Aoki, Translated by Stacey Jehlik
This book uses differences in firm and market regulation and organization to explain differences in national economic performance. These differences affect the way in which firms process information, which is crucial to...
Edited by Alfred Birnbaum, with two stories translated by Terry Gallagher
This ground-breaking anthology “reflects what may seem to Westerners an almost decadent interest in pastiche, in literary appropriation and in the flouting of tradition for its own sake. Hipper than thou, most of the 11 young writers represented here appear out to shock an easily titillated society.” (Publishers Weekly)
by Jiro Asada, translated by Terry Gallagher
Japanese original was a bestseller, selling over two million copies. Won Naoki award for popular fiction in 1997, and spawned several films: 1999 film starred yakuza film icon Ken Takakura, who won a best actor award at the 1999 Montreal Film Festival for his performance, title film was Japan's submission to the 72nd Academy Awards for Best Foreign...
by Toh EnJoe, translated by Terry Gallagher
“Hard SF” book stands at the intersection of surrealism and quantum physics, exploring ideas about non-linear time, parallel universes (at war with one another!), the future of computing, and the concept of narrative itself. The author was awarded the Akutagawa Prize in 2012, and this translation won the Philip K. Dick Award Special Citation in 2014.
by Noboru Tsujihara, translated by Juliet Carpenter
Intrigue, betrayal, family secrets, forbidden passions – this tale of adventure and suspense links the Tiananmen Massacre of 1989 and the Kobe earthquake of 1995 through the story of Akihiko Waki. The story begins in 1990, as Akihiko learns that his father, presumed dead in China, was leading a double life and is in fact alive and in danger....
by Shiba Ryotaro, translated by Juliet Carpenter (volumes 1, 2 & 3)
Published by Routledge
Clouds above the Hill is one of the best-selling novels ever in Japan, and is now translated into English for the first time. An epic portrait of Japan in crisis, it combines graphic military history and highly readable fiction to depict an aspiring nation modernizing at breakneck speed....
By Mariko Koike, translated by Juliet Carpenter
Published by Thames River Press
Kyoko Noma visits the city of Sendai, where she used to live, and reflects on the events that took place there 20 years earlier, in the second half of the sixties, when the winds of the counterculture student movement were sweeping Japan. This is a tale of intense, heartbreaking love in adolescence, and the...