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Sensei no Kaban by Hiromi Kawakami Hi. It's Yuki writing, and it's April 2025. The great Japanese author Hiromi Kawakami is shortlisted...

(This post was originally written in July 2023) In July 2022, I sat down for an online interview with Japanese author Erika Kobayashi and...

(This post was originally written in October 2023.) I’ve been in Kyoto for a few days. In pre-pandemic times, I would hop on the...

(This post was first written in 2023.) As I write this blog post, I wonder, how many of you reading this are also writers? I don’t...

(This post was first written in 2022.) Earlier this year, I read an essay by widely-revered Japanese author Yoko Ogawa where she said...

(This post was first written in 2022.) At the beginning of any year, there are so many things I’m sure I’m going to do. I will start...

(This post was first written in 2020.) Recently, I was led to an article in The Japan Times called Is Japan enjoying a new literary...

(This post was originally written on August 31, 2019.) This summer I attended a talk at a Tokyo bookstore with beloved Japanese novelist...

(This post was originally written on September 16, 2019.) I keep scrolling through the Instagram feed of a friend who passed away this...

(This post was first written on October 4, 2019) When my husband and I first met, we understood each other in our shared language -...

(This post was originally written on August 12, 2019) One of my favorite authors Jhumpa Lahiri was born in London to Bengali parents,...