Asian Anthologies, Part III: Digital Geishas and Talking Frogs, The Best 21st Century Short Stories from Japan
Digital Geishas and Talking Frogs: The Best 21st Century Short Stories from Japan Edited by Helen Mitsios Foreword by Pico Iyer There are some pretty wild support groups out there. Acne support groups, jealousy support groups, lactose intolerance and tooth grinding. (And yes, these really do exist. I looked them up.) But ...
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Like a little girl
This isn’t something I’ve given a lot of thought to before, but: Wherever you go, men and women tend to speak differently. But in Japan, those differences are more pronounced than in many places. Among the multilayered rules of grammar and usage governing spoken Japanese, there also exist underlying concepts ...
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Dostoevsky in 21st Century Japan
Literary Saloon commented on this earlier, but apparently the new translation of The Brothers Karamazov is a bit hit in Japan. Why? At a lecture in Tokyo in August, Kameyama explored possible reasons for the boom, saying that “Karamazov” depicts the “humble existence” of human beings who find ...
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