come join my online talk for the Japan Association of Translators this Saturday (June 13th) 3:00-4:30 pm JST. I'll be discussing the process of translating The Traveling Tree, a memoir by photographer Michio Hoshino about his life in Alaska.

https://jat.org/ja/events/event/jatbook_webinar_061326

#japaneseliterature #translation

This book feels like sitting in a quiet café, watching lives unfold around you ☕✨ Hot Chocolate on Thursday is soft, whimsical, and deeply human. A reminder that even the smallest moments can ripple into something bigger. #BookReview #JapaneseLiterature

https://viewsshewrites.com/hot-chocolate-on-thursday/

　
This time, I’d like to introduce one of my favorite works by Haruki Murakami.

A story that quietly asks:
Who am I?
What are relationships?
What is life?

It’s a story that lets you retrace that quiet, searching journey of thought.

🖊️ 4 Colorful Friends and My Colorless Self
— A Story to Read When You Feel Empty

Feel free to take a peek!
https://introvert-path.com/en/embracing-e/reading-habit/20260405-1/

#JapaneseLiterature #selfreflection #introspection
#Bookish #Bookworm #Booklovers #Reading

So sad to know that Koji Suzuki, the creator of the Sadako universe, and one of my favorite writers, passed away in May 8. Suzuki really left a great legacy in the Japanese Horror.
Rest in peace, master !!!

#Japan #JapaneseLiterature #JHorror #鈴木光司 #SuzukiKoji

Points and Lines (Japanese: 点と線, Hepburn: Ten to Sen), is a novel by Seichō Matsumoto, published in 1958. It was first translated into English by Makiko Yamamoto and Paul C. Blum, published by Kodansha International in 1970.[2] A new translation by Jesse Kirkwood was released as Tokyo Express by Penguin Classics in 2022. Points and Lines was Matsumoto's first published novel. - Wikipedia

I absolutely loved this murder mystery hinging on train timetables and two dogged, diligent detectives refusing to make the apparent assumption when confronted with the death of a couple on a remote, lonely beach.

#SeichoMatsumoto #Novel #CrimeFiction #Fiction #Reading #JapaneseLiterature #PenguinClassics #Trains

Wise words !

#Japan #JapaneseLiterature #Literature #Books #Booksworm #Readers #Reading #MurakamiHaruki #村上春樹