List of Reviews

Literary Fiction

Mari Akasaka – Vibrator
Nanae Aoyama – A Perfect Day to Be Alone
Maru Ayase – The Forest Brims Over
Osamu Dazai – Schoolgirl
Ranpo Edogawa – Strange Tale of Panorama Island
Kaori Ekuni – Twinkle Twinkle
Fumiko Enchi – Masks
Takehiro Fukunaga – Flowers of Grass
Saou Ichikawa – ハンチバック
Saou Ichikawa – Hunchback
Natsuko Imamura – とんこつ Q&A
Natsuko Imamura – Asa: The Girl Who Turned into a Pair of Chopsticks
Natsuko Imamura – The Woman in the Purple Skirt
Yasushi Inoue – The Hunting Gun
Mieko Kanai – Indian Summer
Mieko Kanai – Mild Vertigo
Kazuki Kaneshiro – GO
Yasunari Kawabata – Snow Country
Hiromi Kawakami – The Briefcase
Hiromi Kawakami – Manazuru
Hiromi Kawakami – The Nakano Thrift Shop
Hiromi Kawakami – Parade
Mieko Kawakami – Ms Ice Sandwich
Kumi Kimura – Someone to Watch Over You
Natsuo Kirino – The Goddess Chronicle
Natsuo Kirino – Swallows
Yukiko Motoya – The Lonesome Bodybuilder
Haruki Murakami – 1Q84
Haruki Murakami – After Dark
Haruki Murakami – The City and Its Uncertain Walls
Haruki Murakami – Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki
Haruki Murakami – Dance Dance Dance
Haruki Murakami – Hear the Wind Sing
Haruki Murakami – Kafka on the Shore
Haruki Murakami – Killing Commendatore
Haruki Murakami – ねむり
Ryū Murakami – 69
Kiyoko Murata – A Woman of Pleasure
Sayaka Murata – Convenience Store Woman
Sayaka Murata – Earthlings
Kafū Nagai – Rivalry
Kyōko Nakajima – The Little House
Sōseki Natsume – Kokoro
Sōseki Natsume – Kusamakura
Yōko Ogawa – 薬指の標本
Yōko Ogawa – サイレントシンガー
Yōko Ogawa – 掌に眠る舞台
Yōko Ogawa – Hotel Iris
Yōko Ogawa – The Housekeeper and the Professor
Yōko Ogawa – The Memory Police
Yōko Ogawa – Mina’s Matchbox
Masatsugu Ono – At the Edge of the Woods
Kenzaburō Ōe – A Quiet Life
Shōhei Ōoka – Fires on the Plain
Asako Ōtani – がらんどう
Rie Qudan – Sympathy Tower Tokyo
Tahi Saihate – Astral Season, Beastly Season
Nobuko Takagi – Translucent Tree
Shinya Tanaka – Cannibals
Junichirō Tanizaki – The Makioka Sisters
Junko Takase – May You Have Delicious Meals
Yōko Tawada – The Last Children of Tokyo
Kikuko Tsumura – There’s No Such Thing As An Easy Job
Chiyo Uno – The Story of a Single Woman
Rin Usami – Idol, Burning
Risa Wataya – 蹴りたい背中
Emi Yagi – Diary of a Void
Emi Yagi – When the Museum Is Closed
Miri Yū – Gold Rush

Literary Short Fiction

Osamu Dazai – Retrograde
Kaori Fujino – Nails and Eyes
Mieko Kanai – The Word Book
Yasunari Kawabata – Palm-of-the-Hand Stories
Hiromi Kawakami – 神様
Hiromi Kawakami – Dragon Palace
Hiromi Kawakami – Record of a Night Too Brief
Hiromi Kawakami – Under the Eye of the Big Bird
Aiko Kitahara – The Budding Tree
Aoko Matsuda – The Woman Dies
Ryū Murakami – Tokyo Decadence
Sayaka Murata – Life Ceremony
Yōko Ogawa – 耳に棲むもの
Yōko Ogawa – The Diving Pool
Yōko Ogawa – Revenge
Yūichi Seirai – Ground Zero, Nagasaki
Tomoka Shibasaki – A Hundred Years and a Day
Haneko Takayama – Udon: Unknown Dog of Nobody
Banana Yoshimoto – Dead End Memories
Nobuko Yoshiya – Yellow Rose

Autobiography and Literary Nonfiction

Emuko Asai – 置かれた場所であばれたい
Hideo Furukawa – Horses, Horses, in the End the Light Remains Pure
Mayumi Inaba – Mornings With My Cat Mii
Hiromi Itō – Tree Spirits Grass Spirits
Shōji Morimoto – Rental Person Who Does Nothing
Ryōsuke Nanasaki – Until I Meet My Husband
Yōko Ogawa – からだの美

Popular Fiction

Hiro Arikawa – The Travelling Cat Chronicles
Shūhei Fujisawa – The Bamboo Sword
Hika Harada – 一橋桐子の犯罪日記
Takashi Hiraide – The Guest Cat
Michi Ichiho – ツミデミック
Misumi Kubo – So We Look to the Sky
Sonoko Machida – ５２ヘルツのクジラたち
Shion Miura – The Easy Life in Kamusari
Shion Miura – The Great Passage
Takeshi Murase – The God of Nishi-Yuigahama Station
Naruki Nagakawa – She and Her Cat
Ito Ogawa – The Restaurant of Love Regained
Durian Sukegawa – Sweet Bean Paste
Randy Taguchi – Fujisan
Haruna Terachi – 川のほとりに立つ者は
Mizuki Tsujimura – Lost Souls Meet Under a Full Moon
Atsuhiro Yoshida – おやすみ、東京
Banana Yoshimoto – The Lake
Banana Yoshimoto – Moshi Moshi

Mystery and Suspense

Keigo Higashino – Under the Midnight Sun
Natsuo Kirino – Grotesque
Natsuo Kirino – Real World
Mariko Koike – The Cat in the Coffin
Chōkitsu Kurumatani – The Paradise Bird Tattoo
Seichō Matsumoto – Tokyo Express
Kanae Minato – Penance
Miyuki Miyabe – The Devil’s Whisper
Ryū Murakami – Audition
Ryū Murakami – In the Miso Soup
Fuminori Nakamura – Last Winter We Parted
Asa Nonami – Bødy
Asa Nonami – Now You’re One of Us
Mahokaru Numata – Nan-Core
Hideo Okuda – Lala Pipo
Riku Onda – The Aosawa Murders
Akira Ōtani – The Night of Baba Yaga
Otsuichi – Summer, Fireworks, and My Corpse
Yūya Satō – Dendera
Rio Shimamoto – First Love
Kōji Suzuki – Death and the Flower
Masako Togawa – The Master Key
Uketsu – Strange Houses
Uketsu – Strange Pictures
Taichi Yamada – Strangers
Seishi Yokomizo – The Inugami Clan
Shūichi Yoshida – Parade
Shūichi Yoshida – Villain

Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Supernatural Horror

Kurumu Akumu – 或るバイトを募集しています
Hisashi Inoue – Tales from a Mountain Cave
Tatsuaki Ishiguro – Biogenesis
Mariko Koike – The Graveyard Apartment
Yumiko Kurahashi – The Woman with the Flying Head
Natsuhiko Kyōgoku – Loups-Garous
Natsuhiko Kyōgoku – The Summer of the Ubume
Ōtarō Maijō – Asura Girl
Ryū Mitsuse – 10 Billion Days & 100 Billion Nights
Miyuki Miyabe – Apparitions: Ghosts of Old Edo
Haruki Murakami – Hard-Boiled Wonderland
Issui Ogawa – The Lord of the Sands of Time
Kazuki Sakuraba – A Small Charred Face
Hiroshi Sakurazawa – All You Need Is Kill
Hiroshi Sakurazawa – Slum Online
Tetsuya Satō – シンドローム
Hideaki Sena – Parasite Eve
Kōji Suzuki – Ring
Mizuki Tsujimura – Yami-hara
Nahoko Uehashi – The Deer King
Hiroshi Yamamoto – The Stories of Ibis

Young Adult Fiction

Miyuki Miyabe – The Book of Heroes
Miyuki Miyabe – Ico: Castle in the Mist
Hayao Miyazaki – Shuna’s Journey
Eto Mori – Colorful
Sōsuke Natsukawa – The Cat Who Saved Books
Makoto Shinkai – your name.
Novala Takemoto – Emily
Novala Takemoto – Kamikaze Girls
Mizuki Tsujimura – Lonely Castle in the Mirror
Yasutaka Tsutsui – The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
Nahoko Uehashi – The Beast Player
Nahoko Uehashi – Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit

Children’s Fiction

Naoko Awa – The Fox’s Window
Makiko Futaki – 世界の真ん中の木
Misuzu Kaneko – Are You An Echo?
Kazumi Yumoto – The Friends

Light Novels

Yukito Ayatsuji – Another, Volume 1
Ayuna Fujisaki – Vampire Knight: Fleeting Dreams
Mishio Fukazawa – Witches’ Forest
Hiroshi Ishizaki – Chain Mail: Addicted to You
Yukako Kabei – Kieli: The Dead Sleep in the Wilderness
Reki Kawahara – Sword Art Online: Aincrad
Kugane Maruyama – Overlord: The Undead King
Hiroyuki Morioka – Crest of the Stars
NISIOISIN – Zaregoto, Book 1: The Kubikiri Cycle
Mizuki Nomura – Book Girl and the Suicidal Mime
Ryō Suszukaze – Attack on Titan: Before the Fall
Nagaru Tanigawa – The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
Mamare Tōno – Log Horizon: The Beginning of Another World
Kore Yamazaki – The Ancient Magus’ Bride: The Golden Yarn

Edited Anthologies

John L. Apostolou and Martin Harry Greenburg (eds.) – Japanese Science Fiction Stories
Grania Davis and Gene van Toyer (eds.) – Speculative Japan
Michael Emmerich, Jim Hinks, and Masashi Matsuie (eds.) – The Book of Tokyo
Edward Lipsett (ed.) – Speculative Japan 2
Edward Lipsett (ed.) – Speculative Japan 3
Elmer Luke and David Karashima (eds.) – March Was Made of Yarn
Helen Mitsios (ed.) – Digital Geishas and Talking Frogs
Angus Turvill (ed.) – Heaven’s Wind

Academic Nonfiction

Anne Allison – Being Dead Otherwise
Anne Allison – Permitted and Prohibited Desires
Jorge Almazán – Emergent Tokyo
Hiroki Azuma – Otaku: Japan’s Database Animals
Julia Bullock – The Other Women’s Lib
Dani Cavallaro – Magic as Metaphor in Anime
Eric Cazdyn – The Flash of Capital: Film and Geopolitics in Japan
Hiromi Tsuchiya Dollase – Age of Shōjo
Michael Dylan Foster – The Book of Yōkai
Lucy Fraser – The Pleasures of Metamorphosis
Kōjin Karatani – Origins of Modern Japanese Literature
Chris McMorran – Ryokan: Mobilizing Hospitality in Rural Japan
Laura Miller and Jan Bardsley (eds.) – Bad Girls of Japan
Susan Napier – Anime from Akira to Howl’s Moving Castle
Susan Napier – From Impressionism to Anime
Amanda C. Seaman – Writing Pregnancy in Low-Fertility Japan
Stephen Snyder and Philip Gabriel (eds.) – Ōe and Beyond
Ben Whaley – Toward a Gameic World

About Japan

Matt Alt and Hiroko Yoda – Yokai Attack!
Matt Alt and Hiroko Yoda – Yurei Attack!
Brian Ashcraft and Shoko Ueda – Japanese Schoolgirl Confidential
Atelier Sentō – Onibi: Diary of a Yokai Ghost Hunter
Florent Chavouet – Manabeshima: Island Japan
Florent Chavouet – Tokyo on Foot
Jonathan Clements – Schoolgirl Milky Crisis
Alessandra Criseo – Memento Bento
Zack Davisson – Yūrei: The Japanese Ghost
Lisa Dempster – Neon Pilgrim
Abby Denson – Cool Japan Guide
Patrick Drazen – Anime Explosion!
Diane Durston – Old Kyoto
Alex Kerr – Lost Japan
Jamie Lynn Lano – The Princess of Tennis
Patrick Macias and Izumi Evers – Japanese Schoolgirl Inferno
Jane Mai and An Nguyen – So Pretty / Very Rotten
Matthew Meyer – The Night Parade of One Hundred Demons
Sophie Richard – The Art Lover’s Guide to Japanese Museums
Ikka Sakurada – 建築家が見たマンガの世界
Brian Salsberg (et al.) – Reimagining Japan
Frederik L. Schodt – Dreamland Japan
Eric Talmadge – Getting Wet
Jenna Winterburg and Michelle Nguyen (eds.) – Gothic & Lolita Bible

About Video Games

Kari Fry – Banquet of the Wild
Daniel Goldberg and Linus Larsson – The State of Play
David Hellman and Tevis Thompson – Second Quest
Chris Kohler – Final Fantasy V
Keza MacDonald and Jason Killingsworth – You Died: The Dark Souls Companion
Chris Melissinos and Patrick O’Rourke – The Art of Video Games
Clyde Mandelin – Legends of Localization
Patrick Thorpe (et al.) – Hyrule Historia
Audrey Waner and Dan Moore – EarthBound Handbook

Art Books and Exhibition Catalogs

David Elliot – Bye Bye Kitty
Kaoru Ishimoto – 団地巡礼
Junko Mizuno – Ravina The Witch?
Takashi Murakami – Little Boy
Kirstin Pires – Three Directions: teamLab, Tenmyouya Hisashi, Ikeda Manabu
Yōhei Sometani – Girl, Illustrated
Masami Toku – Shojo Manga! Girl Power!
Ivan Vartanian – Drop Dead Cute
Yumi Yamaguchi – Warriors of Art

Manga

Miki Aihara – From Five to Nine
Taka Amano – Marshmallow Bungaku Girl
Inio Asano – Solanin
Kiyohiko Azuma – Yotsubato!
Chome – Shitsugai kishitsu
CLAMP – Gate 7
CLAMP – xxxHOLiC
Sayman Dowman – Nickelodeon
est em – Hatarake Kentauros
Hideyoshico – ニシオギ奇譚
Shōtaro Ishinomori – The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
KaiJu – Mahou Josei Chimaka
Keita Katsushika – 東東京区区
Kanata Konami – Chi’s Sweet Home
Umi Kusahara – Mothers
Machiko Kyō – Kamimachi
Taiyō Matsumoto – Tokyo These Days
Shigeru Mizuki – NonNonba
Nagabe – Buchō wa onee
Ryōko Nagara – 北国ゆらゆら紀行
Tsutomu Nihei – Tower Dungeon
Kogani Ōshiro – うみべのストーブ
Aki Poroyama – 星屑家族
Akihito Sakaue – 神田ごくら町職人ばなし
Keiko Shiki et al. – Belles Ruelles
Shima Shinya – Glitch
Filipe Smith – Peepo Choo
Gou Tanabe – The Shadow Over Innsmouth
Jirō Taniguchi – The Walking Man
Kawo Tanuki and Choco Aya – Dragon Goes House-Hunting
Osamu Tezuka – Ayako
Tsukumizu – Shimeji Simulation
Yuki Urushibara – Mushishi
Mari Yamazaki – Thermae Romae
Fumi Yoshinaga – Ōoku