Publisher/Licensor Seven Seas Entertainment Japanese Name Genre(s) Light Novel Volumes In English 4 Flum is blessed/cursed ...

I’ can for example be expressed as watakushi, ore, atashi, uchi or washi. The Japanese language, therefore, has a range of ...

December is a month of anticipation. We look forward to holidays, perhaps some vacation time, and wrapping up an old year to start again, anew.

The popularity of Japanese novels in the UK is nothing new ... Yoshimoto, on the other hand, had her works translated into English in the late 1980s and early 1990s, earlier than Murakami ...

These Japanese novels have seemed to move ahead. What can we do about the now, they ask, without coming too close to the present? That requires a kind of retrospection that’s impossible now.

Because Japanese and English have a very different word order ... so you can’t take many of the liberties that you might in translating a novel. You can’t rearrange paragraphs or change ...

In fact, he is a "hikikomori," or social recluse. Saito describes himself as “a Japanese novelist who writes novels and poems in Romanian while living in Japan.” “The story of how I ...

So the two went overseas to promote Japanese authors ... They asked a translator to work on an English version of the novel that was good enough for publishing. The translated work was included ...