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- Tokyo, Japan
  
  Posted August 13, 2019
- ‘Freethinking’ the first collection of essays by Fuminori Nakamura published in Japan
  
  by Koji Chikatani
  Last month Kawade Shobo Shinsha, a major Japanese publisher founded in 1886 and publisher of the important Japanese quarterly literary journal Bungei, published the first… Read more »
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  - Fuminori Nakamura
  - Book Launch
  - Book promotion
  - Book Review
- Tokyo, Japan
  
  Posted July 8, 2019
- The first full-length feature film, ‘Lovers at the Crater’, based on a Kazufumi Shiraishi novel, goes on general release in Japan next month
  
  by Koji Chikatani
  A film adaptation of Lovers at the Crater (kakou no futari), a novel by the award-winning Red Circle author Kazufumi Shiraishi, will be released nationally in… Read more »
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  - Kazufumi Shiraishi
  - Film Adaptation
  - Fim Launch
- London, UK
  
  Posted April 19, 2019
- ‘Just Only Love’ the fifth Mitsuyo Kakuta book-to-film adaptation out on general release
  
  by Richard Nathan
  A film adaptation of Just Only Love, a novel about complex modern relationships and unrequited love by the award-winning Red Circle author Mitsuyo Kakuta, was… Read more »
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  - Mitsuyo Kakuta
  - Film Adaptation
  - Fim Launch
  - Women Writers
- Tokyo, Japan
  
  Posted February 19, 2019
- Hardback edition of ‘The Plastic Prayer’ by Kazufumi Shiraishi published in Japan
  
  by Koji Chikatani
  Asahi Shimbun Publications, the book publishing arm of one of Japan’s oldest and most prestigious national daily newspapers, released a tanko-bon, hardback, edition of The… Read more »
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  - Kazufumi Shiraishi
  - Book Launch
  - Book promotion
  - Book Review
- Tokyo, Japan
  
  Posted December 3, 2018
- Second volume of new contemporary edition of the world’s oldest novel, ‘The Tale of Genji’, by Mitsuyo Kakuta, published
  
  by Richard Nathan
  The second book in the three volume new modernised edition of The Tale of Genji, often-described as the world’s first novel, adapted and translated for a… Read more »
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  - Mitsuyo Kakuta
  - Book Launch
  - Book promotion
  - Women Writers
- London, UK
  
  Posted November 27, 2018
- Roger Pulvers awarded the Order of the Rising Sun
  
  by Richard Nathan
  Earlier this month Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced the names of individuals that it would award its prestigious Order of the Rising Sun to…. Read more »
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  - Roger Pulvers
  - Award
- London, UK
  
  Posted November 23, 2018
- Kazufumi Shiraishi’s latest work, a love story with a twist, is an important addition to the canon of Japanese robot fiction
  
  by Richard Nathan
  Stand-In Companion, a new work by the Naoki Prize-winning Japanese author Kazufumi Shiraishi is being released today. This powerful short story is an important addition… Read more »
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  - Kazufumi Shiraishi
  - Book Launch