Genzaburō Yoshino: How Do You Live?

First published in 1937 in the glorious land of Nippon, 君たちはどう生きるか (Kimi-tachi wa Dō Ikiru ka) has since become a treasured Japanese classic. At a slight 298 pages, Genzaburō Yoshino (1899-1981) crafted a beautiful coming-of-age story about the young schoolboy Copper and his friends in 1930s Japan. It wasn't published in English until 2021 as How Do You Live? At the time, the book was incorrectly promoted as the influence for the latest Studio Ghibli film. In Japan […]

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