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The Poems of Nakahara Chuya

Born in 1907, Nakahara Chuya was one of the most gifted and colourful of Japan’s early modern poets. A bohemian romantic, his death at the early age of thirty, coupled with the delicacy of his imagery…

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The Setting Sun

The post-war period in Japan was one of immense social change as Japanese society adjusted to the shock of defeat and to the occupation of Japan by American forces and their allies. Osamu Dazai’s The …

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The Flowers of Buffoonery

The Flowers of Buffoonery opens in a seaside sanitarium where Yozo Oba — the narrator of No Longer Human — is convalescing after a failed suicide attempt. Friends and family visit him, and nurses and …

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Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination

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No Longer Human

Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human, this leading postwar Japanese writer's second novel, tells the poignant and fascinating story of a young man who is caught between the breakup of the traditions of a nor…

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Self-Portraits: Tales from the Life of Japan's Great Decadent Romantic

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Kokoro

Hailed by The New Yorker as "rich in understanding and insight,"

Kokoro—"the heart of things"—is the work of one of Japan's most popular authors. This thought-provoking trilogy of stories explores the…

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Naomi

A hilarious story of one man’s obsession and a brilliant reckoning of a nation’s cultural confusion—from a master Japanese novelist.

When twenty-eight-year-old Joji first lays eyes upon the teenage wa…

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I Am a Cat

Written from 1904 through 1906, Soseki Natsume's comic masterpiece, I Am a Cat, satirizes the foolishness of upper-middle-class Japanese society during the Meiji era. With acerbic wit and sardonic per…

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文豪ストレイドッグス太宰治と黒の時代 [Bungō Stray Dogs - Dazai Osamu to kuro no jidai]

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Botchan

Like The Catcher in the Rye or The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Botchan, a hilarious tale about a young man's rebellion against "the system" in a country school, is a classic of its kind. Among Jap…

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Bungo Stray Dogs: BEAST, Vol. 1

A PATH THAT COULD HAVE BEEN…

In the world of Bungo Stray Dogs, Ryuunosuke Akutagawa is infamous for being one of the Port Mafia’s most dangerous members. But what if his past had turned out differently…

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