| Individual Authors |
| Art & Healing:
Conversation with Kenzaburo Oe |
One of the Conversations with History
series of the Institute of International Studies, UC
Berkeley |
| Banana
Yoshimoto Official Site |
(in Japanese & English) Profile & journal
of the Japanese author of the novel Kitchen;
FAQ |
| Haruki
Murakami |
Life & work of the Tanizaki
award winner; articles, interviews, & book reviews;
music & Murakami; books about Murakami; translators;
links, etc. |
| Kenzaburo
Oe: Japan, The Ambiguous, and Myself |
The Nobel laureate's Nobel lecture
(Dec. 7, 1994) |
| Kirino
Natsuo Bubblonia |
(in Japanese & English) Official
site of the author of Out, winner of Japan's top mystery
award, & "acclaimed for ... unique perspective
of Japanese society after the collapse of the economic
bubble" |
| Master
of the Ordinary |
Charles Taylor on Haruki Murakami's
novel Kafka on the Shore (Salon, Jan.
20, 2005) |
| Militerrorism:
Atrocious Tragedy of War Depicted in Abe Kobos "Records
of a Transformation" |
Debashrita Ghosh Dastidar's study
of Abe's 1954 work (Proceedings of the 15th Biennial
Conference of the Asian Studies Association of Australia
in Canberra, 2004; PDF format) |
| The
Mishima Yukio Cyber Museum |
"index of items stored in the
[Mishima Yukio Museum], an introduction of some of the
displayed items, Mishima's biography, reference maps,
questions answered by top researchers, and a forum of
comments for the museum" |
| Natsume
Sseki and Andrew Lang: Their Interpretations of the
Supernatural |
Orie Muta's analysis of Ssekis
'Koto no Sorane' (The Hallucinatory Sound of
Koto, 1905) (Proceedings of the 15th Biennial Conference
of the Asian Studies Association of Australia in Canberra,
2004; PDF format) |
| The
Outsider: Salon Interview: Haruki Murakami |
Conducted by Laura Miller (Dec.
16, 1997) |
| Provocation
of Mishima: Queering the Text |
Rio Otomo's analysis of Mishima's
final work, The Sea of Fertility (Proceedings of
the 15th Biennial Conference of the Asian Studies Association
of Australia in Canberra, 2004; PDF format) |
| Reading
Abe Kobo |
From Horagai: news, biography,
bibliography, & criticism |
| Ryunosuke
Akutagawa |
An introduction to & excerpts
from the writings of the author of Rashomon |
| Waseda
University & Literature: Index to Writers |
(in Japanese) Capsule biographies
of modern Japanese writers, with collective chronology & places
of birth |
| The
World of Kenji Miyazawa |
An introduction to one of Japan's
most widely read authors |
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