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Read Japanese Literature Podcast VIEW LIST (18 BOOKS)
Traditional Japanese Literature: An Anthology, Beginnings to 1600
Kojiki: An Account of Ancient Matters
The Tale of Genji
The Tale of the Heike
Yoshitsune: A Fifteenth-Century Japanese Chronicle
Tales of Times Now Past: Sixty-Two Stories from a Medieval Japanese Collectionvolume 9
Early Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology, 1600-1900 (Revised)
Tales of Moonlight and Rain
I Am a Cat (Bilingual)
Soseki Natsume's I Am a Cat: The Manga Edition: The Tale of a Cat with No Name But Great Wisdom!
Kusamakura
The Modern Murasaki: Writing by Women of Meiji Japan
In the Shade of Spring Leaves: The Life of Higuchi Ichiyo, with Nine of Her Best Stories
Dawn to the West: A History of Japanese Literature: Japanese Literature of the the Modern Era: Poetry, Drama, Criticism
The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature: Volume 1: From Restoration to Occupation, 1868-1945

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2022 New and Upcoming Releases from Japan VIEW LIST (27 BOOKS)
Longing and Other Stories
My Annihilation
Fish Swimming in Dappled Sunlight
Woman Running in the Mountains
Scattered All Over the Earth
The Color of the Sky Is the Shape of the Heart
At the Edge of the Woods
All the Lovers in the Night
Kamusari Tales Told at Night
Three Assassins
Solo Dance
Trinity, Trinity, Trinity
Death on Gokumon Island
Early Light
Three Streets

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2021 New Releases from Japan VIEW LIST (22 BOOKS)
At the End of the Matinee
Bullet Train
The Cat Who Saved Books
Colorful
The Decagon House Murders
The Easy Life in Kamusari
First Person Singular: Stories
Heaven
How Do You Live?
An I-Novel
Lady Joker, Volume 1
Monkey Man
Silent Parade: A Detective Galileo Novel
So We Look to the Sky
Soul Lanterns

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Akutagawa Prize Winners in English VIEW LIST (12 BOOKS)
Touring the Land of the Dead (and Ninety-Nine Kisses)
Convenience Store Woman
Spring Garden
The Hole
The Boy in the Earth
The Bear and the Paving Stone
The Bridegroom Was a Dog
The Stones Cry Out
The Cape and Other Stories from the Japanese Ghetto
Child of Darkness: Yoko and Other Storiesvolume 18
Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness: Four Short Novels: The Day He Himself Shall Wipe My Tears Away, Prize Stock, Teach Us to Outgrow Our
White Man, Yellow Man: Two Novellas
Japanese Women Writers VIEW LIST (17 BOOKS)
Masks
People from My Neighborhood: Stories
Heaven
Trinity, Trinity, Trinity
The Goddess Chronicle
An I-Novel
Convenience Store Woman
The Woman in the Purple Skirt
Where the Wild Ladies Are
Weasels in the Attic
The Memory Police
Woman Running in the Mountains
Lizard
Scattered All Over the Earth
There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job

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