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Showing posts with label japan. Show all posts
Saturday, July 19, 2025

A Woman of Pleasure by Kiyoko Murata

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In 1903, a fifteen-year-old girl named Aoi Ichi is sold to the most exclusive brothel in Kumamoto, Japan. Despite her modest beginnings in a...
Sunday, February 9, 2025

Review: The Little Sparrow Murders by Seishi Yokomizo

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Synopsis: An old friend of Kosuke Kindaichi's invites the scruffy detective to visit the remote mountain village of Onikobe in order to...
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

Review: The Meji Guillotine Murders by Futaro Yamada

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Synopsis: Japan, 1869. A time of reform and rebellion.A classic Japanese mystery – a pair of sleuths investigate a series of bloody murders...
Wednesday, February 7, 2024

Review: Butter by Asako Yuzuki

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Synopsis: The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist intent on cracking her case, inspir...
Sunday, May 29, 2022

Review: Death on Gokumon Island by Seishi Yokomizo

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Synopsis: Kosuke Kindaichi arrives on the remote Gokumon Island bearing tragic news – the son of one of the island’s most important families...
Sunday, October 10, 2021

Review: The Village of Eight Graves by Seishi Yokomizo

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Synopsis:   The third title in Japan’s most popular murder mystery series — after  The Honjin Murders  and  The Inugami Curse  — fiendish cl...
Monday, September 7, 2020

Review: The Inugami Curse by Seishi Yokomizo

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Synopsis: In 1940s Japan, the wealthy head of the Inugami Clan dies, setting off a chain of bizarre, gruesome murders. Detective Kindaichi...
Sunday, March 8, 2020

Review: The Honjin Murders by Seishi Yokomizo

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Synopsis: In the winter of 1937, the village of Okamura is abuzz with excitement over the forthcoming wedding of a son of the grand Ichi...
Sunday, October 27, 2019

It All Depends on 31 Syllables: A study of the power of Japan's medieval waka

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From  Obermann Center for Advanced Studies : Imagine if your social stature and your livelihood were dependent on your ability to write poet...
Sunday, June 9, 2019

Review: The Samurai's Daughter by John Healey

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The follow up to The Samurai of Seville - its is a story of acceptance and finding your place in the world as Soledad Maria - the Samurai...
Saturday, December 16, 2017

Earliest-known children’s adaptation of Japanese literary classic discovered in British Library | University of Cambridge

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A chance discovery in the British Library has led to the discovery and reproduction of the earliest-known children’s adaptation of one o...
Sunday, October 8, 2017

'In the Woods of Memory': Okinawan novelist makes history visceral

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From an article in The Japan Times : It is almost impossible to find a serious novel that does not touch on the subject of death. “In th...
Saturday, October 7, 2017

'Flowering of the Bamboo': Revisiting the mass poisoning of 1948

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From  The Japan Times : The acronym GUBU (grotesque, unusual, bizarre and unprecedented) fits the mass murder at the Teihoku Bank in Tok...