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London, UK
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Leading Italian magazine launches a special edition of Takuji Ichikawa’s blockbuster ‘Be With You’
Oggi, one of Italy’s oldest and most popular weekly magazines, which is modelled on the American magazine Life, launched a special Italian language edition of… Read more »
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London, UK
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Genji Shines Again: Final volume of Mitsuyo Kakuta’s brilliant new edition of ‘The Tale of Genji’, published in February, is seducing a new generation of readers and critics
Mitsuyo Kakuta, the prolific and popular Japanese author has done it again. Last week, the much anticipated third and final volume of her newly adapted… Read more »
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London, UK
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‘Can’t Write A Novel Without You’ a new work by Kazufumi Shiraishi released in Japan
Can’t Write A Novel Without You, Kimi ga inaito shosetsu wa kakenai, a new 443-page novel by the Naoki prize-winning author Kazufumi Shiraishi, was released in hardback,… Read more »
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Tokyo, Japan
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‘Murder in the Crooked House’ by the Japanese master of post-modern whodunnits, Soji Shimada, chosen as one of the best titles published in 2019
The English edition, published in June last year, of Murder in the Crooked House by Soji Shimada, translated by Louise Heal Kawai, has been chosen… Read more »- TOPICS:
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Tokyo, Japan
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‘The Chronicles of Lord Asunaro’ by Kanji Hanawa, published today, is a brilliant subtle multi-layered novelette that takes the reader on a journey of self-discovery
The Chronicles of Lord Asunaro, a Japanese tale – not about daring ninja or battling samurai – but a hero, with a very different penchant,… Read more »
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London, UK
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The selection of ‘The Thief’ as one of the ‘Best Ten Crime Novels Of The Last Decade’ caps another exciting year for the Zen master of Noire Fuminori Nakamura
The Thief, first published in Japanese in 2009 and subsequently in English in 2012, translated by Satoko Izumo and Stephen Coates, has been ranked amongst the… Read more »
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London, UK
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International reviewers are falling in love with ‘Japan’s Man of Mystery’, Soji Shimada, and his unfathomable ingenious plots
The award-winning author Soji Shimada is very well known and highly regarded in Japan, his native country, where he has won the prestigious Japan Mystery… Read more »- TOPICS:
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