By night, I work as a translator for an investment bank in Tokyo, by day I try to make a dent in my piles of books at home in Portland, Oregon. Many people equate Japanese literature with the sombre and austere or the quirky and grotesque, but there is so much more. I wanted to share the books that might never be translated into English, but that have made my years of Japanese study pay off many times over.

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