Special thank yous to @elipsett.bsky.social, @brianbergstrom.bsky.social, and @kenjilaine.bsky.social for their assistance with this episode.
This episode includes a celebration of Kurodahan Press.
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@readjapaneseliterature.com@readjapaneseliterature.comRJL Episode 52—Japanese Horror Stories is now available! Horror and uncanny stories are fundamental elements of Japanese storytelling. - horror in classical Japanese lit - kaidan in Edo Japan - modern uncanny fiction - Japanese horror of the last 70 years - Ryu Murakami + In the Miso Soup.
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@readjapaneseliterature.comReposted by @readjapaneseliterature.com@europaeditions.bsky.social has been a solid source of Japanese literary fiction in translation, introducing authors like Mieko Kawakami to the English-speaking world.
I'm not the only one who will no longer review or promote their editions if they're being translated by AI.
@zackdavisson.comReposted by @readjapaneseliterature.comFor #caturday , Shere Khan recommends KAIBYO THE SUPERNATURAL CATS OF JAPAN.
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@readjapaneseliterature.comWell, LMK if there are other presses publishing translated Japanese fiction using AI. I'm not wasting my time reviewing something the press couldn't bother to actually have translated by a real, human artist. A computer can do my taxes. A human being should write and translate my books.
@readjapaneseliterature.comI also keep one of the most accurate, up-to-date, and frequently consulted lists of Japanese-to-English translations that's publicly available.
@readjapaneseliterature.comEurope quotes from my review on their website: “Razor-perfect.” — Asian Review of Books
@readjapaneseliterature.comI'm cribbed on the Bookshop sales page: "Metaphor is the greatest strength of Kashimada's work... Love at Six Thousand Degrees takes full advantage of Christianity's symbolic possibilities."—Asian Review of Books
@readjapaneseliterature.comI reviewed Maki Kashimada's Love at Six Thousand Degrees (trans Hadyn Trowell) in the Asian Review of Books.
@readjapaneseliterature.comI reviewed Maki Kashimada's Touring the Land of the Dead (trans Hadyn Trowell) in the Asian Review of Books.
@readjapaneseliterature.comHere's my review being used on Bookmarks
@readjapaneseliterature.comI reviewed Mieko Kawakami's All the Lovers in the Night (trans Sam Bett and David Boyd) in the Asian Review of Books.
@readjapaneseliterature.comI reviewed Mieko Kawakami's Heaven (trans Sam Bett and David Boyd) in the Asian Review of Books
@readjapaneseliterature.comI did a podcast episode about Mieko Kawakami and Breasts and Eggs (trans Sam Bett and David Boyd).
@readjapaneseliterature.com@europaeditions.bsky.social has been a solid source of Japanese literary fiction in translation, introducing authors like Mieko Kawakami to the English-speaking world.
I'm not the only one who will no longer review or promote their editions if they're being translated by AI.
@readjapaneseliterature.comRJL Episode 52—Japanese Horror Stories is now available for Patreon supporters. Join now and enjoy 10 minutes of bonus content, including information linking written Japanese horror stories to J-horror films + allegorical readings of In the Miso Soup.
@readjapaneseliterature.comHappy birthday to Akiyuki Nosaka. The Japanese Renaissance Man and author of Grave of the Fireflies would have been 96 today. You can learn more about Nosaka and his story "Cake Tree in the Ruins" with the RJL podcast.
@readjapaneseliterature.comHappy 66th birthday to the great Okinawan writer Shun Medoruma. You can learn more about Medoruma and his short story "Droplets" with the RJL podcast.
@readjapaneseliterature.comRJL's horror episode is recorded and half edited! Here's one of my favorite modern kaidan to whet your appetite.