The Travelling Cat Chronicles
Read the World: Japan I’m not sure why I picked up The Travelling Cat Chronicles, it’s not my usual thing and I’m not even a cat person, but I have been wanting to read more translated work, so there is that. I found it a…
Nagasaki
Only eight centimetres of juice remained, compared to fifteen when I had left for work. Someone had been helping themselves to it. And yet I live alone. Fifty-six year old Shimura Kobo lives alone in the suburbs of Nagasaki. His life is relatively uneventful; he…
Ink
Following the death of her mother, Katie Greene moves to Japan to live with her aunt. Trying to make friends in a new school is hard enough without struggling to learn a new language. And then she overhears a fight between bad boy Tomohiro and…
Translation Challenge: Made in Japan
We’re nearly 4 months into the Translation Challenge and I know I’ve been a bit lax with exciting extras, so I would like to propose that the month of May is Japan Month. I’d love for all my challengees to read something Japanese in May….
The Goddess Chronicle
This tale may be spun from my words but I speak for the goddess, the one who governs the Realm of the Dead. My words may be dyed red with anger; they may tremble in yearning after the living; but they are all, each and…
March Was Made of Yarn
The thought occurred to me, as I was sweating from expending all this energy. How minuscule this was compared with something like, say, the cleanup after 3/11. This was just one tree. Cleanup after 3/11 was beyond inconceivable. Like all anthologies, there are going to…
