Past Events

In Sisters in Yellow, Hana, now in her forties, reflects on her youth in Tokyo’s “Yellow House” during the 1990s.

Point Zero centres on a woman searching for her husband after his sudden disappearance. As she uncovers hidden pasts and shifting identities, the novel exposes deception, social pressure, and the precarious position of women in postwar Japan.

The Kobe Hotel: Memoirs recounts poet Sanki Saitō’s wartime exile in Kobe after he was censored by Japan’s Special Higher Police and lived in a run-down hotel alongside bar hostesses, drifters, and foreign residents.

Spring Castle is the epic story of Japan's bloody Shimabara Rebellion, told through the eyes of the peasants and former samurai who rose up their oppressors with extraordinary bravery.

This new anthology offers the most comprehensive collection of Ryunosuke Akutagawa's work ever published in English. It features fresh translations of his most celebrated stories alongside many lesser-known and never-before-translated pieces.

Strange Pictures is a suspense-horror novel built around nine eerie drawings that serve as cryptic clues. It opens with a psychologist analysing a haunting child’s sketch, setting a framework for the book’s visual‑psychological puzzles.