The much anticipated, Cult X, Fuminori Nakamura’s seventh novel in English translation published last month, is making a major impact internationally after causing a sensation… Read more »
The Lightless Sea, Hikari no nai umi, by the Red Circle author Kazufumi Shiraishi, is gaining momentum not just in Japan, but also in China,… Read more »
At this year’s annual Takuboku Festival, held in honour of one of Japan’s most important poets, Takuboku Ishikawa (1886-1912), the award-winning Red Circle author Roger… Read more »
The award-winning Red Circle author, Fuminori Nakamura’s international profile and reputation continues to grow as his works appears in translation in more languages. He is… Read more »
The number of entries in The Red Circle Factbook, a dynamic online open access compendium of Interesting Japanese Literary and Publishing Facts, has increased massively… Read more »
Randy Taguchi launched Potora, a special event – “the first of its kind” – in Tokyo to support small Japanese publishers in February. The event, attended… Read more »
In January the first of three major Japanese feature films to be launched in 2018, all based on books by the award-winning Red Circle author… Read more »