while heading home on my bicycle, I spotted a young copper pheasant walking across the road.

#shonan #japan #pheasant

me last Saturday just before giving a talk and reading from my Japanese language debut short story Photo Bomber (フォトボマー), as part of SF Carnival, held at Daikanyama T-Site.

Photo c/o Sakai Sampo

#SFカーニバル #SF #scifi #speculativefiction #exophony

Come hear me read from my latest short story, Photo Bomber ("フォトボマー") this Saturday at 2:45 pm, as part of SF Carnival. Speculative fiction talks and events happening at T-site in Daikanyama all weekend. Join us!

https://store.tsite.jp/daikanyama/sf-carnival/

#scifi #speculativefiction #reading #festival #tokyo

when the government withdraws my income tax for last year from my account, I can declare that as a business expense on my tax return next year, right? That is how it works, isn't it? (If only...)

#taxes #accounting

RE: https://localization.cafe/@nosword/116294270977199331

I'm just sentimental relic of a human being to think this is actually kind of tragic...😥

started reading All Systems Red by Martha Wells. Let's see if this novel lives up to the hype.

#scifi #reading #hype

Finished the title novella Kamogawa Runner. The premise--an American man modelled on the author discovers himself through studying Japanese and settling in Japan—is identical to that of HIdeo Levy's 1992 debut novel A Room Where The Star-Spangled Banner Cannot Be Heard, but Khezrnejat updates it for the early 21st century, bringing his own prose style and cross-cultural insights.

#exophonic #literature #japanese

RE: https://mastodon.social/@elikp_william/116208190936470092

"Translator Eli KP William is equal to Hoshino’s lyricism... and his passion for the project shines through in a fluid and considered prose that hardly feels like a translation at all."

Very kind words. Makes me want to translate another book.

#japaneseliterature #japanese #literature #memoir #essay #travelwriting #translation

fifteen years since the 3/11 earthquake struck, since I sheltered under a desk at my then workplace in Tokyo and watched the corners of the room rock open and closed like mouths, since the tsunami washed so many poor souls in Tohoku away, since the Fukushima meltdown that changed everything and nothing.

#march11 #tohoku #earthquake #tsunami
#fukushima #nuclear #meltdown

The Asian Review of Books reviews my latest translation, The Traveling Tree by Michio Hoshino.

https://asianreviewofbooks.com/the-travelling-tree-by-michio-hoshino/

#japaneseliterature #japanese #literature #essay #memoir #travelwriting #translation