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Transcript of Episode 34: The End of the World! Japanese Apocalypse, part two
Find out more about Episode 34 of the Read Literature podcast on the episode page. Link to listen Notes and sources Ways to support the podcast This is…
Episodes 33-35: The End of the World! Japanese Apocalypse
Check out Episode 33 of the Read Japanese Literature podcast, The End of the World—Japanese Apocalypse, Part 1. (Transcript of part 1.) Coming soon! Episode 34 of the…
Transcript of Episode 33: The End of the World! Japanese Apocalypse, Part One
Find out more about Episode 33 of the Read Literature podcast on the episode page (coming soon). Link to listen Notes and sources Ways to support the podcast…
Japanese Apocalyptic and Dystopian Fiction
Support RJL. Check out our Bookshop.org page. Learn more about Japanese apocalyptic fiction with the RJL podcast. (Coming soon.) — • 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami (translated by Jay…
Transcript of Episode 32: Misogyny and Yukio Mishima, part two
Find out more about Episode 32 of the Read Literature podcast on the episode page. Link to listen Notes and sources Ways to support the podcast Read Japanese…
Episode 31-32: Misogyny and Yukio Mishima
Check out Episode 31 of the Read Japanese Literature podcast—Misogyny and Mishima, part 1. Check out Episode 31 of the Read Japanese Literature podcast—Misogyny and Mishima, part 2.…
Transcript of Episode 31: Misogyny and Yukio Mishima, part one
Find out more about Episode 31 of the Read Literature podcast on the episode page. Link to listen Notes and sources Ways to support the podcast Read Japanese…
Episode 30: Kenji Miyazawa
Check out Episode 30 of the Read Literature podcast. Transcript available. There is no one quite like Kenji Miyazawa. Born into wealth, he longed to be “a real…
Transcript of Episode 30: Kenji Miyazawa
Find out more about Episode 30 of the Read Literature podcast on the episode page. Link to listen Notes and sources Ways to support the podcast This is…
2024 New and Upcoming Japanese Fiction Releases
“The Courtesan Hanazome of the Ogiya Reading a Letter and Grinding Ink” by Kikukawa Eizan (c. 1810-1815) Titles from Japan translated into English for publication in 2024. Does…
Episode 29: The Stories of Studio Ghibli
Check out Episode 29 of the Read Literature podcast. Transcript available. To celebrate the overseas release of The Boy and the Heron (aka How Do You Live?) RJL…
Transcript of Episode 29: The Stories of Studio Ghibli
Find out more about Episode 29 of the Read Literature podcast on the episode page. Link to listen Notes and sources Ways to support the podcast [1:08] This…
Episode 28: Haruki Murakami
Check out Episode 28 of the Read Literature podcast. Transcript available. In this episode, we’re talking about one of the most important voices in modern Japanese literature, Haruki…
Transcript of Episode 28: Haruki Murakami
Find out more about Episode 28 of the Read Literature podcast on the episode page. Link to listen Notes and sources Ways to support the podcast This is…
Episode 27: Japanese Children’s Literature
Check out Episode 27 of the Read Literature podcast. Transcript available. In this episode, we’re talking about Japanese children’s literature. The history of children’s literature in g…
Transcript of Episode 27: Japanese Children’s Literature
Find out more about Episode 27 of the Read Literature podcast on the episode page. Link to listen Notes and sources Ways to support the podcast This is…
Japanese Children’s Literature in English Translation
RJL’s booklists don’t include children’s literature, so here’s a list for your reference. Support RJL by buying through our links. Check out our Bookshop.org page. Middle Gr…
Podcast and YouTube Resources
Just in time for August and Women in Translation Month, here’s a list of resources about Japanese women writers for listening and watching.
Transcript of Episode 26: Translating Japanese to English, part 2
Find out more about Episode 26 of the Read Literature podcast on the episode page. Link to listen Notes and sources Ways to support the podcast This is…
31 Days of Japanese Women in Translation
Just in time for August and Women in Translation Month, here’s a list of resources about Japanese women writers for listening and watching.
Episode 25: Translating Japanese to English, Part 1
This episode page includes resources and bibliography for Translating Japanese to English Part 1 and Part 2 (coming soon). Listen to part 1. Part 1 transcript available. How…
Transcript of Episode 25: Translating Japanese to English
Find out more about Episode 25 of the Read Literature podcast on the episode page. Link to listen Notes and sources Ways to support the podcast This is…
Episode 24: SF! Japanese Science Fiction
Check out Episode 24 of the Read Literature podcast. Transcript available. In this episode, we’re talking about Japanese science fiction. The history of the genre. SF in Japan.…
Transcript of Episode 24: SF! Japanese Science Fiction
Find out more about Episode 24 of the Read Literature podcast on the episode page. Link to listen Notes and sources Ways to support the podcast Hi. This…
SF! A Booklist of Japanese Science Fiction in Translation
Support RJL. Check out our Bookshop.org page. Anthologies The Best Japanese Science Fiction Stories ed. John Apostolou and Martin Greenberg The Future is Japanese: Science Fiction Futures and…
Transcript of Episode 23: Writing from Okinawa
Find out more about Episode 22 of the Read Literature podcast on the episode page. Link to listen Notes and sources Ways to support the podcast This is…
Episode 23: Writing from Okinawa
Check out Episode 23 of the Read Literature podcast. Transcript available. In this episode, we’re talking about writing from Okinawa. The history of the Ryukyu Islands, especially the…
Episode 22: Fukushima Fiction
Check out Episode 22 of the Read Literature podcast. Transcript available. On March 11, 2011, at 2:46pm, one tectonic plate forced its way on top of another 45…
Transcript of Episode 22: Fukushima Fiction
Find out more about Episode 22 of the Read Literature podcast on the episode page. Link to listen Notes and sources Ways to support the podcast This is…
Transcript of Episode 21: Sexlessness in Japanese Fiction
Find out more about episode 21 of the Read Literature podcast on the episode page. Link to listen Notes and sources Ways to support the podcast This is…
Episode 21: Sexlessness in Japanese Fiction
Check out Episode 21 of the Read Literature podcast. Transcript available. This episode is marked mature. Today we’ll explore two trends in contemporary Japanese fiction: Protagonists who don…
Episode 20: The Akutagawa Prize and Kobo Abe
Machi Yamida Abe’s illustration from The Woman in the Dunes Check out Episode 20 of the Read Literature podcast. The Akutagawa Prize is probably Japan’s most celebrated literary…
Episode 19: Japanese Magical Realism
“Even though She Looks Old, She Is Young” by Utagawa Kuniyoshi Check out Episode 19 of the Read Literature podcast. Magical realism is a literary genre famous for…
31 Days of Listening for #JanuaryinJapan
Just in time for August and Women in Translation Month, here’s a list of resources about Japanese women writers for listening and watching.
2023 Upcoming Japanese Fiction Releases
“Woman Reading a Letter” by Utamaro (c. 1750-1806) Listed released dates listed are tentative. Descriptions are excerpted from book sellers’ or publishers’ websites. Transla…
Episode 18: Cats in Japanese Literature
“Cats of the Tokaido Road” by Utagawa Kuniyoshi Check out Episode 18 of the Read Literature podcast. Today, we’re going to look at cats in Japanese literature. We’ll…
Episode 17: The Smile of the Mountain Witch
“Yamamba” from Bakemono no e, circa 1700 (via Wikimedia Commons) Check out Episode 17 of the Read Literature podcast. In this episode… Is she a man-eating crone? Is…
Episode 16: Writing about Japan’s “Have-Nots”
Tokyo Ueno Station by Yu Miri Check out Episode 16 of the Read Literature podcast. In this episode… Post-bubble Japan. The history of socially-conscious Japanese literature. And Yu Miri’s…
Episode 15: Translating Japanese Women
The Japanese cover of Convenience Store Woman Check out Episode 15 of the Read Literature podcast. In all our episodes so far, we’ve talked almost exclusively about what…
Episode 14: Banana and the Bubble
“White Fox Mirror” by Yoshimi Okamoto, 1980 (via Ukiyo-e.org) Check out Episode 14 of the Read Literature podcast. In this episode, we’re talking about Japan’s bubble economy of…
Episode 13: Literature of Change in the 1960s—Mishima and Oe
“Ukiyo-e Today, No. 7” by Okamoto Ryusei, 1974 (via Ukiyo-e.org) Check out Episode 13 of the Read Literature podcast. Today, we’re talking about the literature of change in…
31 Days of Listening and Watching for Women in Translation Month
Just in time for August and Women in Translation Month, here’s a list of resources about Japanese women writers for listening and watching. The texts mentioned on this…
Episode 12: Japanese Literature in WWII
“Flag Merchant” by Sanzo Wada, 1940 (via Ukiyo-e.org) Check out Episode 12 of the Read Literature podcast. Today we’re talking about the 1930s and 40s in Japan—fascism, World…
Episode 11: The I-Novel, Osamu Dazai, and No Longer Human
“Asakusa Park Casino Follies” by Sumio Kawakami, circa 1930 (via Wikimedia Commons) Check out Episode 11 of the Read Japanese Literature podcast. Today, we’re talking about the I-Novel—…
Episode 10: Taisho Magazines and Akutagawa’s Vision of Hell
“Woman Holding a Black Cat” by Yumeji Takehisa, circa 1919 (via Wikimedia Commons) Check out Episode 10 of the Read Japanese Literature podcast. The father of the Japanese…
Episode 9: Ichiyō Higuchi and Meiji Women Writers
A print of a Meiji-era Japanese woman in Western dress via Wikimedia Commons Coming soon—episode 9 of the Read Japanese Literature podcast. In the last episode, we talked…
Episode 8: Meiji Literature and Japan’s Most Famous Literary Cat
In this 1874 print by Kyōsai, Japanese yōkai adapt to the modern era.via the Museum of International Folk Art Coming soon: episode 8 of the Read Japanese Literature…
Episode 7: Kaidan—Japan’s Ghost Stories
An image of Okiku, the ghost who inspired The Ring, by Toyohara Kunichika (via Wikimedia Commons) Check out Episode 7 of the Read Japanese Literature podcast. In this…
Audiobooks of Japanese Literature in Translation
Kobo Abe The Woman in the DunesTranslated by E. Dale SaundersNarrated by Julian Cihi Hiro Arikawa The Traveling Cat ChroniclesTranslated by Philip GabrielNarrated by George Bladden Osamu Dazai…
Episode 6: High and Low Literature in Edo Japan
Saikaku’s illustration of Yonosuke sailing for the Island of Women. Check out Episode 6 of the Read Japanese Literature podcast. This episode is marked mature. How does “this…