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Anthologies

- The Best Japanese Science Fiction Stories ed. John Apostolou and Martin Greenberg
- The Future is Japanese: Science Fiction Futures and Brand New Fantasies from and about Japan ed. Masumi Washington, Nick Mamatas, and Ken Liu
- Hanzai Japan: Fantastical, Futuristic Stories of Crime from and about Japan ed. Haikasoru
- Phantasm Japan: Fantasies Light and Dark from and About Japan
- The Speculative Japan series
Kobo Abe
- The Ark Sakura (translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter)
- Inter Ice Age 4 (translated by Dale Saunders)
- Secret Rendezvous (translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter)
- Featured in The Best Japanese Science Fiction Stories
- Much of Abe’s other writing might qualify as SF.
- Learn more about Kobo Abe with RJL.
Ken Asamatsu
- Queen of K’n-yan (translated by Kathleen Taji)
Yoshio Aramaki
- The Sacred Era (translated by Baryon Tensor Posadas)
Toh Enjoe
- Self-Reference Engine (translated by Terry Gallagher)
- The Squirrel Awakes
- Featured in The Ghost in the Shell: Five New Stories
- Featured in The Future Is Japanese
- Featured in Monkey Business 2
- Featured in Monkey Business 3
- Featured in Monkey Business 4
- Featured in Monkey Business 5
Taiyo Fujii
- Gene Mapper (translated by Jim Hubbert)
- Orbital Cloud (translated by Timothy Silver)
- Featured in The Apex Book of World SF 5
- Featured in Everyone: Worlds without Walls
- Featured in The Rosetta Archive: Notable Speculative Fiction in Translation
Kaori Fujino
- Nails and Eyes (translated by Kendall Heitzmann)
- Featured in Hanzai Japan
Ryo Hanmura
- The Sheltering Rain (translated by Jim Hubbert)
- Featured in The Best Japanese Science Fiction Stories
- Featured in Speculative Japan: Outstanding Tales of Japanese Science Fiction and Fantasy
- Featured in Speculative Japan 4: Pearls for Mia and Other Tales
Jyouji Hayashi
- The Ouroboros Wave
- Featured in Hanzai Japan
Tobi Hirotaka
- The Thousand Year Beach (translated by Matt Treyvaud)
- Featured in The Future Is Japanese
Akira Hori
- Featured in The Showa Anthology
- Featured in Speculative Japan 4: Pearls for Mia and Other Tales
Shinichi Hoshi
- The God of Fortune (translated by Robert Matthew)
- The Spiteful Planet and Other Stories (translated by Bernard Susser and Tomoyoshi Genkawa)
- A Well-Kept Life (translated by Marina Hoshi Whyte and Kim Hines)
- Voice Net (translated by Marina Hoshi Whyte and Kim Hines)
- Featured in The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories
- Featured in We, Robots
Takuji Ichikawa
- Monkey Man (translated by Lisa Lilley and Daniel Lilley)
- The Refugees’ Daughter (translated by Emily Balistrieri)
Rokuro Inui
- Automatic Eve (translated by Matt Treyvaud)
Takashi Ishikawa
- Featured in The Best Japanese Science Fiction Stories
- Featured in Speculative Japan: Outstanding Tales of Japanese Science Fiction and Fantasy
Chohei Kambayashi
- Yukikaze (translated by Neil Nadelman)
- Good Luck, Yukikaze (translated by Neil Nadelman)
Shigeru Kayama
- Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again (translated by Jeffrey Angles)
Hirai Kazumasa
Morio Kita
- Red Ghost, White Ghost: Stories and Essays (translated by Masako Inamoto)
- Featured in The Best Japanese Science Fiction Stories
Yusaku Kitano
- Mr. Turtle (translated by Tyran Grillo)
- Featured in Phantasm Japan
Erika Kobayashi
- Sunrise: Radiant Stories (translated by Brian Bergstrom)
- Trinity, Trinity, Trinity (translated by Brian Bergstrom)
- Featured in Elemental: Earth Stories
Sakyo Komatsu
- Japan Sinks: A Novel about Earthquakes (translated by Michael Gallagher)
- Virus: The Day of Resurrection (translated by Daniel Huddleston)
- Featured in The Best Japanese Science Fiction Stories
Tensei Kono
- Featured in The Best Japanese Science Fiction Stories
Kaoru Kurimoto
- The Guin Saga: The Leopard Mask (translated by Alexander O. Smith)
- The Guin Saga: Warrior in the Wilderness (translated by Alexander O. Smith)
- The Guin Saga: The Battle of Nospherus (translated by Alexander O. Smith)
- The Guin Saga: Prisoner of the Lagon (translated by Alexander O. Smith)
- The Guin Saga: The Marches King (translated by Alexander O. Smith)
Gengen Kusano
- Last and First Idol (translated by Andrew Cunningham)
Osamu Makino
- Featured in Night Voices, Night Journeys
- Featured in Speculative Japan 4: Pearls for Mia and Other Tales
Taku Mayumura
- Administrator (translated by Daniel Jackson)
- Featured in The Best Japanese Science Fiction Stories
Miyuki Miyabe
- The Book of Heroes (translated by Alexander O. Smith) and The Gate of Sorrows (translated by Jim Hubbert)
- Brave Story (translated by Alexander O. Smith)
- Crossfire (translated by Deborah Stuhr Iwabuchi and Anna Husson Isozaki)
- The Devil’s Whisper (translated by Deborah Stuhr Iwabuchi)
- Ico: Castle in the Mist (translated by Alexander O. Smith)
- Puppet Master (translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori)
- Shadow Family (translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter)
- Featured in Phantasm Japan
- Much of Miyabe’s other writing might qualify as SF.
Yusuke Miyauchi
- Featured in Hanzai Japan
Ryu Mitsuse
- 10 Billion Days and 100 Billion Nights (translated by Alexander O. Smith)
- Featured in Best Science Fiction for 1972
- Featured in Science Fiction Stories 52
Tomihiko Morimi
- Penguin Highway (translated by Andrew Cunningham)
- Tower of the Sun (translated by Stephen Kohler)
- Tatami Galaxy (translated by Emily Balistrieri)
- Tatami Time Machine (translated by Emily Balistrieri)
- Some of Morimi’s other writing might qualify as SF.
- Learn more about Tomihiko Morimi with RJL.
Haruki Murakami
- 1Q84 (translated by Jay Rubin and Philip Gabriel)
- Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (translated by Alfred Birnbaum)
- Some of Murakami’s other writing might qualify as SF.
Ryu Murakami
- Coin Locker Babies (translated by Stephen Snyder)
- Some of Murakami’s other writing might qualify as SF.
Norio Nakai
- Featured in Speculative Japan 2: The Man Who Watched the Sea and Other Tales of Japanese Science Fiction and Fantasy
Asa Nonami
- Body (translated by Takami Nieda)
Issui Ogawa
- The Lord of the Sands of Time (translated by Jim Hubbert)
- The Next Continent (translated by Jim Hubbert)
- Featured in The Future Is Japanese
- Featured in Speculative Japan 2
- Featured in Speculative Japan 3
Yoko Ogawa
- The Memory Police (translated by Stephen Snyder)
Mariko Ohara
- Hybrid Child (translated by Jodie Beck)
- Featured in Monkey Brain Sushi
- Featured in Speculative Japan: Outstanding Tales of Japanese Science Fiction and Fantasy
- Featured in Speculative Japan 2: The Man Who Watched the Sea and Other Tales of Japanese Science Fiction and Fantasy
Shunro Oshikawa
- The Undersea Warship: A Fantastic Tale of Island Adventure (translated by Shelley Marshall)
Hiroko Oyamada
- The Factory (translated by David Boyd)
Project Ito
- Genocidal Organ (translated by Edwin Hawkes)
- Harmony (translated by Alexander O. Smith)
- Metal Gear Solid: Guns of the Patriots (translated by Nathan Collins)
- Featured in The Future Is Japanese
- Featured in Phantasm Japan
Hiroshi Sakurazaka
- All You Need Is Kill (translated by Alexander O. Smith)
- Featured in Hanzai Japan
Yuya Sato
- Dendera (translated by Nathan Collins and Edwin Hawkes)
- Featured in The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories
Hideaki Sena
- Parasite Eve (translated by Tyran Grillo)
Soji Shimada
- One Love Chigusa (translated by David Warren)
Kazufumi Shiraishi
- Stand-In Companion (translated by Raj Mahtani)
Hiroe Suga
- Featured in Speculative Japan 3: Silver Bullet and Other Tales of Japanese Science Fiction and Fantasy
- Featured in Year’s Best SF 5
Izumi Suzuki
- Hit Parade of Tears (various translators)
- Terminal Boredom (various translators)
- Read Suzuki’s “The Walker” for free (translated by Daniel Joseph)
Koji Suzuki
- Dark Water (translated by Glynne Walley)
- Death and the Flower (translated by Maya Robinson and Camellia Nieh)
- Edge (translated by Jonathan Lloyd-Davies and Camellia Nieh)
- Paradise (translated by Tyran Grillo)
- Promenade of the Gods (translated by Takami Nieda)
- Ring series:
- The Shining Sea (translated by Brian Bergstrom)
Seia Tanabe
- Featured in Phantasm Japan
Koshu Tani
- The Erinys Incident (translated by Simon Varnam)
- Featured in Speculative Japan 2: The Man Who Watched the Sea and Other Tales of Japanese Science Fiction and Fantasy
Yoko Tawada
- The Emissary (translated by Margaret Mitsutani)
- Also published as The Last Children of Tokyo
- Scattered All Over the Earth (translated by Margaret Mitsutani)
- Some of Tawada’s other writing might qualify as SF.
Dempow Torishima
- Sisyphean (translated by Danial Huddleston)
- Featured in Phantasm Japan
Aritsune Toyota
Yasutaka Tsutsui
- Bullseye! (translated by Adam Driver)
- The Girl Who Leapt through Time (translated by David Karashima)
- Hell (translated by Evan Emswiler)
- The Maid (translated by Adam Kabat)
- Paprika (translated by Andrew Driver)
- Salmonella Men on Planet Porno (translated by Andrew Driver)
- Featured in The Best Japanese Science Fiction Stories
Sayuri Ueda
- The Cage of Zeus (translated by Takami Nieda)
- Featured in Phantasm Japan
- Featured in Speculative Japan 3
- Featured in Speculative Japan 4
Juza Unno
- Fast Forward Japan (translated by J. D. Wisgo)
- also published as Science: Hopes and Fears (translated by J. D. Wisgo)
Masaki Yamada
- Aphrodite (translated by Daniel Jackson)
- Featured in Night Voices, Night Journeys
- Featured in Speculative Japan 3: Silver Bullet and Other Tales of Japanese Science Fiction and Fantasy
- Featured in Speculative Japan 4: Pearls for Mia and Other Tales
Hiroshi Yamamoto
- MM9: Monster Magnitude (translated by Nathan Collins)
- The Stories of Ibis (translated by Takami Nieda)
Tetsu Yano
- Featured in The Best Japanese Science Fiction Stories
- Featured in The Penguin World Omnibus of Science Fiction
- Featured in Requiem: New Collected Works by Robert A. Heinlein and Tributes to the Grand Master
- Featured in Tales from the Planet Earth: A Novel with Nineteen Authors
Baku Yumemakura
- The Psyche Diver Trilogy (translated by Jonathan Lloyd-Davies):
- Desires of the Flesh
- The Darkness
- The Demon’s Cry
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