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Set in the early postwar years, it probes the destructive effects of war and the transition from ...

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Mine has been a life of much shame. I can't even guess myself what it must be to live the life of...

This powerful novel of a nation in social and moral crisis was first published by New Directions ...

For years Kazu has run her fashionable restaurant with a combination of charm and shrewdness - th...

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The Tso Chuan

Twenty Plays of the N¿ Theatre

When Emperor Meiji began his rule, in 1867, Japan was a splintered empire, dominated by the shogu...

Modern Japanese Literature is Donald Keene's critically acclaimed companion volume to his landmar...

The sweep of Japanese literature in all its great variety was made available to Western readers f...