Still Life and Other Stories (Rock Spring Collection of Japanese Literature)1 review Junzo Shono Stone Bridge Press, 1992 A fantastic look into the human experience. Nothing can be said or written about life but this book certainly comes close. Not only it captured the reader realization of the subtle life we might experience, this book will make you think about what important to one's life.             The Stones Cry Out20 reviews Hikaru Okuizumi Harvest Books, 2000 Does life just go on? + One of Japan's best recent works + A lesson on man's place in the universe + Interesting portrayal of loss and tragedy + Mute, but riveting.             The Bamboo Sword: And Other Samurai Tales3 reviews Shuhei Fujisawa Kodansha International, 2006 An exciting and engaging collection of remarkable samurai stories + My son loved it + Lovely Peeks Into Another Time The Bamboo Sword And Other Samurai Tales by Shuhei Fujisawa is a superb collection of eight intrinsically interesting and truly evocative stories inspired by two popular Japanese films: "The Twilight Samurai" and "The Hidden Blade". These tales of the samurai include: A Passing Shower; All For A ...             Shame in the Blood: A Novel1 review Tetsuo Miura Shoemaker & Hoard, 2007 A Curiously Effective Literary Construction, but Lacking in Empathy Acclaimed on its own book jacket as having sold over one million copies and as being "considered one of the finest love stories in modern Japanese literature," it is difficult not to approach this recent translation of Tetsuo Miura's prize-winning 47-year-old novel with high expectations. By ...             Wind and Stone (Rock Spring Collection of Japanese Literature)2 reviews Masaaki Tachihara Stone Bridge Press, 1992 Wonderful piece of writing Unlike the other review written by somebody obviously lacking patience for good literature and seeking immediate gratification, I think this is a wonderful book and I've read it several times through. It offers a look into human emotions (including those of Mizue and Tamiko, if one is paying ...             Translucent Tree Nobuko Takagi Vertical, 2008 Chigiri Yamazaki is a divorced single mother who has returned to Tsurugi City with her 11 year old daughter to care for her ailing father--a famouse sword maker whose business has completely faltered. It falls upon Chigiri to keep dept collectors at bay. Go Imai, a freelance documentary maker, is on a business trip from Tokyo and has decided to stop by this little town of Tsurugi, where he had ...             Embracing Family (Japanese Literature)1 review Nobuo Kojima Dalkey Archive Press, 2005 "I'm in pain, and you're acting like YOU need help." Written in 1965 by Nobuo Kojima, the author of more than thirty books, Embracing Family is the first of Kojima's novels to be translated into English. Set in Japan during the American Occupation after World War II, it is the story of a troubled marriage, the two parties no longer communicating on ...             The Shooting Gallery: & Other Stories (New Directions Classics)1 review Yuko Tsushima New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1997 Great Stories of Modern Japan From A Woman's Perspective These stories by the daughter of famous Japanese author Osamu Dazai are poignant and haunting. They describe experiences of modern day Japanese women - working women, mothers, sisters, aunts, lovers, ex-wives widows - in ways that should explode the vague stereotypes or incomplete images most ...             Realm of the Dead2 reviews Uchida Hyakken Dalkey Archive Press, 2006 Haunting, lyric I've never come across anything like it in English. A haunting blend of dream and reality. The reader is always a little off-balance. It has some of the flavor of other magical realism -- Italo Calvino, Alain Robbe-Grillet and Murakami perhaps -- but through a glass much more darkly. Having ...             The Name of the Flower (Rock Spring Collection of Japanese Literature)4 reviews Kuniko Mukoda Stone Bridge Press, 1994 Mr. Carp ate my ears + Startling vignettes of Japanese domestic life + Great Insight + true mistress of contemporary japanese fiction             Bedtime Eyes4 reviews Amy Yamada, Japan Association for Cultural Exchange St. Martin's Press, 2006 We had a BLAST! + I'll be there soon + Incredible "Leroy must have been thirsty. He lapped at me like a dog, slurping at my skin deliciously, flicking the tip of his tongue over my electrified body, gorging himself on every last drop of the sweet, sticky liquid that covered me." Amy Yamada doesn't mince her words and she isn't afraid to delve ...             The Inugami Clan (Stone Bridge Fiction)6 reviews Seishi Yokomizo Stone Bridge Press, 2007 Inherit The Wind + Features the Japanese Columbo + Keeping Murder in the Family + A Japanese family disintegrates, violently             A View by the Sea Yasuoka Shotaro Columbia University Press, 1992 The works contained in this volume include Shotao´s prize-winning novella and five short stories.             Kinshu: Autumn Brocade6 reviews Teru Miyamoto New Directions, 2007 PLS translate Teru's other works + Beautiful literary creation of letters between two people torn apart by a tragedy + Remarkably Restrained + The problem with letters... + Delicate             Tales of Moonlight and Rain (Translations from the Asian Classics)3 reviews Akinari Ueda Columbia University Press, 2006 A Moonlight Drive with Ueda Akinari + Literate ghosts and demons Ueda Akinari's classic work of eerie fiction has been translated before quite a few times and always with obvious dedication and care, but when it comes right down to it this version by Anthony Chambers outdoes the others and will doubtlessly remain the definitive English "Tales of Moonlight and ...             The Bridegroom Was a Dog7 reviews Yoko Tawada Kodansha International, 2003 Wonderful Book! + Creative and disturbing If you love good writing, you will love this book. As Kafka was rebuked by the first readers of his day only to become one of the most influential writers of this century, so too Tawada is walking an unmarked road that will eventually gain the accolades it deserves.             The Crimson Labyrinth4 reviews Yusuke Kishi Vertical, 2006 Loved it! + loved it I too have read Battle Royale, and several other Japanese books that were translated into English - Parasite Eve, Ring, and Dark Waters. Of all of these, I feel that The Crimson Labyrinth was the best. It kept my attention completely, I read it quickly over a few hours and could not put it down. ...             Grass For My Pillow Saiichi Maruya Columbia University Press, 2002 First published in Japanese in 1966, the debut novel of the critically acclaimed author of Singular Rebellion is an unusual portrait of a deeply taboo subject in twentieth-century Japanese society: resistance to the draft in World War II. In 1940 Shokichi Hamada is a conscientious objector who dodges military service by simply disappearing from society, taking to the country as an itinerant ...             Zero Over Berlin3 reviews Joh Sasaki, Hiroko Yoda, ... Vertical, 2004 Fun to read, so speedy, but also so deep! + Good book, interesting author The great author in Japan, Sir. Joh Sasaki, finally presented this Planet Wide Zero Fighter's Pilots Adventure novel in any other language areas! I really want to see "Zero Over Brlin" at any theaters as the one of Hollywood Made cinema! I can't wait for that! Please read at first!             Fires on the Plain (Tuttle Classics of Japanese Literature)8 reviews Shohei Ooka, Ivan Morris Tuttle Publishing, 2001 Haunting + A different look from war. + Haunting and terrifying + De Profundis Clamavi + Fires on the Plain