7 April 2011
by David Mitchell, Sceptre/Hodder and Stoughton, 2010, 469 pages, ISBN 978-0-340-92156-2 Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi This readable historical novel set in Japan has been well reviewed in the national press. Many Japan Society members will have read about it and some may already have read the book. Anyone interested in the life of the [...]
6 April 2011
by Atsushi Nakajima, Translated by Paul McCarthy and Nobuko Ochner, Autumn Hill Books, 2010, 182 pages ISBN:9780982746608 Review by Adam House Atsushi Nakajima (中島 敦) was born in Tokyo in 1909, his father came from a family of scholars specializing in the classics of ancient China, this would not only influence his reading but would [...]
15 December 2010
Watching the river flowing under Ochanomizu Bridge, we read as Akaki (our narrator) muses on bridges mentioned in the stories of Kafu, and also that of Gogol, another of his favourite authors. He’s on the bridge waiting to meet a man called Yamakawa, we follow his thoughts on Gogol and that in his student days he had a khaki overcoat, where is it now?
14 December 2010
The Year of No Money in Tokyo,
by Wayne Lionel Aponte, Watkins and McKay,
2009, 168 pages, ISBN 0982055005
Review by William Farr
21 June 2010
by Lesley Downer
Bantam Press, 2010, 352 pages, ISBN-10: 0593057937, £12.99
Review by Elizabeth Ingrams
1 April 2008
By Fiona Campbell
Chatto and Windus, 2007, 320 pages. Paperback £7.99. ISBN 13: 978-0099503699
Review by Anna Davis
1 February 2008
By Santo Kyoden, translated by Carmen Blacker with an introduction by Peter Kornicki
ISBN 978-1-905246-64-9, pages 166, Global Oriental, 2008, price £35 (but Japan Society members can order direct from the publishers at a discount)
Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi
1 February 2008
By Justin Kerr-Smiley
Reportage Press, 2007, 243 Pages, ISBN13: 9780955572937 (Hardback), £16.99
Review by Susan Meehan
1 October 2007
By Justin Kerr-Smiley
Reportage Press, 2007, 243 Pages, ISBN13: 9780955572937 (Hardback), £16.99p
Preview by J. Sean Curtin
1 October 2007
By Miki Fujita
BookSurge Publishing, 2006, 268 pages, ISBN: 1419614274
Review by J. Sean Curtin
Mar
