The Breaking Jewel: A Novel by Makoto Oda, translated by Donald Keene [in AsianWeek]
28 Mar, by in Adult Readers, Fiction, Japanese, Repost, Translation
Oda, known for his outspoken anti-war sentiments, captures a group of loyal, patriotic Japanese soldiers on a South Pacific island during the final days of World War II, who are mere pawns of a...
The paperback re-issue of a collection of essays on all things Japanese by the world’s most famous honorary almost-Japanese.
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A slim introduction to Yasunari Kawabata, Yukio Mishima, Jun’ichiro Tanizaki, Ryotaro Shiba, and Kobo Abe by the much-recognized Japanese literature scholar who knows (or knew) them all.
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Here's the updated, revised second edition of the bestselling academic classic. Put it together with the two-parter Sources of Japanese Tradition, Volume Two: 1600 to 2000, and you'll have the...