Foothill Ranch, California – Kawasaki Motors Corp., U.S.A. welcomes Eiko Kirino as President effective July 1st. With more than 30 years with Kawasaki, Ms. Kirino has built a broad career overseeing ...

Many of the most popular Japanese titles in translation belong to the healing fiction genre: cozy, comforting stories that often feature some combination of cats, cafés, and books, such as Toshikazu ...

Sehr kranke Literatur, würden wohl deutsche Krimileser bescheiden. Und, angesichts der bedenklichen Psycho-Gesundheit der Autorin, sorgenvoll die Köpfe schütteln. In anderer Weise interessant, würden ...

416 pp, $17.95, softcover. There is an effect that all thrillers shoot for but only a few hit: authors want readers to be repulsed by what they're reading but unable to step away from the horrible ...

It seems apt that for SG60, my top read of the year is a home-grown SingLit book that celebrates Singapore’s place in Nusantara, decolonising the narrative of this little red dot with a generous dose ...

On Nov. 26, 1935, the inaugural ceremony of the Japan P.E.N. Club was held in Tokyo, attended by many of the era’s leading writers, critics and other literary figures. Its first president, Toson ...

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To an extent, feminist fiction — or literature that is marketed, praised or otherwise described as “feminist” — has ceased to be revelatory. It has even become a tad formulaic. A part of this is ...

Swallows, by Natsuo Kirino, translated from the Japanese by Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda (Knopf). This acerbic novel explores the ramifications of a controversial topic in Japan: surrogacy. (Although the ...

In an interview in the September 20 issue of the party organ newspaper Komei Shimbun, Komeito Chief Representative Natsuo Yamaguchi spoke on the objectives of the series of bills to promote peace and ...

It’s been 12 years since an English translation of novelist Natsuo Kirino’s work was published, and “Swallows,” out this month in translation by Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda, is well worth the wait. Originally ...

The rather enigmatic one-word English title of Natsuo Kirino’s novel fails to capture the nuances of the Japanese title. First published as Tsubame Wa Modotte Konai in 2022 and made into a television ...