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Overheard
傍聞き (kataegiki, Overheard, 2008) is a collection of four long short stories by 長岡弘樹 (NAGAOKA Hiroki, born 1969). It won the short story a...
Lonely Hunter
I seem to have read a small pile of books since my last post without getting round to writing a review. So I'll try and write them up…
Knox Machine
From the "detective story" and "science fiction" labels I've added to the post, you might guess thatノックス・マシン ( Knox Machine , 2013) by NORIZ...
The Spring Term Special Strawberry Tart Case
米澤穂信 ( Y ONEZAWA Honobu , born 1978) is probably best known outside Japan for a series of everyday life mysteries, starting with 氷菓 (hyouk...
Odd Jobs Man Daizou at Your Service
The title of the short story collection なんでも屋大蔵でございます (nandemoya Daizou degoizaimasu, It's Daizou the Odd Jobs Man , 1985) by OKAJIMA Futa...
The Gymnasium Murder
体育館の殺人 (taiiku kan no satsujin, The Gymnasium Murder , 2012) is a mystery novel by AOSAKI Yuugo ( 青崎有吾 , born 1991). The publishers, Sougen ...
A Big 1st Year and a Little 2nd Year
大きい1年生と 小さな2年生 (ookii ichinensei to chiisana ninensei, A Big 1st Year and a Little 2nd Year, 1970) is a children's book by FURUTA Taruhi ( 古...
The Last Confession
After deciding to return to blogging, but only for books for which I feel some enthusiasm, my first review goes against that decision. It's ...
Quiet here. Too quiet
If you look through the list of blogs at Ho-Ling's blog , you will probably notice that most of the few English language blogs on Japanese c...
The Yufuin Murder Case
湯布院殺人事件 (Yufuin satsujinjiken, The Yufuin Murder Case , 1994) is a not very interesting mystery by UCHIDA Yasuo (内田康夫). The main characters ...
Stakeout
張込み (Harikomi, Stakeout , 1965) is a collection of short stories by MATSUMOTO Seichou (松本清張). In the title story, a detective on the team ...
Living and Dead
I reviewed The Book of Happiness by AWASAKA Tsumao ( 泡坂妻夫, 1933-2009) last year. That book was characterised by a bit of trickiness tha...
Coffin of Flowers
YAMAMURA Misa (山村美紗, 1934-1996) was very popular in her day, but has probably faded of late. The last time I looked, few if any of her books...
Arisugawa Alice's Honkaku Mystery Library
This is half a review. The book is an anthology of traditional detective stories edited by Japanese detective story writer ARISUGAWA Arisu (...
The Great Darkroom
大暗室 (Daianshitsu, The Great Darkroom , 1938) is a thriller by EDOGAWA Rampo (江戸川乱歩). I've not read any of his novels except for a couple of ...
Dr. Poppen's Sunday
ぽっぺん先生の日曜日 ( Poppen sensei no nichiyoubi, Dr. Poppen's Sunday , 1973) is a children's book by FUNAKAZI Yoshihiko ( 舟崎克彦 , 1945-2015). It's ...
Meiji Guillotine
I generally don't use the dictionary very much when I'm reading. In a normal modern text I can generally understand almost all of the words ...
Ash Woman
灰の女 (hai no onna, Ash Woman , 1970) is a detective story by TAKAGI Akimitsu (高木 彬光) featuring his series detective, prosecutor KIRISHIMA Sab...
One More Red Nightmare
Before you read ふたたび赤い悪夢 (futatabi akai akumu, One More Red Nightmare , 1992) by NORIZUKI Rintarou ( 法月綸太郎), you need to decide whether you...
The Summer of the Ubume
This not very enthusiastic review will look like a bad start to 2017; but I read this over a month ago, so for me it was more a…
The Policeman's Child
刑事の子 (keiji no ko, The Policeman's Child, 1990) is a mystery by MIYABE Miyuki (宮部 みゆき). It was first published under the title 東京殺人暮色 (Touky...
Return of the Detectives
My reading is a little haphazard. Quite a few of the books I read are not specially chosen, but just those that happened to be available in ...
Old Photographs
One should always remember to respect one's elders. I visited my great aunt at the start of this year. She had just reached one hundred. H...
Eighteenth Summer
十八の夏 (Juuhachi no natsu, Eighteenth Summer , 2002) by 光原百合 (MITSUHARA Yuri, born 1964) is a hard book to classify. The title story won the...
The Anguish of Galileo
ガリレオの苦悩 (Garireo no kunou, The Anguish of Galileo , 2008) is a collection of five detective stories by HIGASHINO Keigo (東野圭吾). Higashino is ...