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...
By Minae Mizumura, translated by Juliet Carpenter
Published by Other Press
A True Novel begins in New York in the 1960s, where we meet Taro, a relentlessly ambitious Japanese immigrant trying to make his fortune. Flashbacks and multilayered stories reveal his life: an impoverished upbringing as an orphan, his eventual rise to wealth and success—despite racial and class prejudice—and an...
By Machi Tawara, translated by Juliet Carpenter
Published by Pushkin Collection
This internationally bestselling book took the world by storm on its publication. Covering the discovery of new love, first heartache and the end of an affair, these poems mix the ancient grace and musicality of the tanka form with a modern insight and wit. With a light, fresh touch and a cool eye, Machi Tawara...
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By Toshio Hagiwara, translated by Jeremy Angel
Pub. Kodansha 2007
Monkeys are supposed to have a natural fear of water, but the Japanese macaques inhabiting the steep slopes of Jigokudani (literally “Hell’s Valley”) in northern Nagano are famous throughout the world for their predilection for soaking in the steaming hot springs that give the location its name. Born and raised near Jigokudani,...