- 2018: Hiroki Takahashi
- Featured in Speculative Japan IV
- 2016: Sayaka Murata
- Convenience Store Woman (prize winner)
- Earthlings (read more about Earthlings)
- 2015: Yukiko Motoya
- The Lonesome Bodybuilder: Stories (including prize-winning An Exotic Marriage; also published as Picnic in the Storm)
- Vengeance Can Wait
- Featured in Granta 127: Japan
- 2014: Masatsugu Ono
- At the Edge of the Wood
- Echo on the Bay
- Lion Cross Point
- Featured in Monkey Business: New Writing from Japan III
- 2014: Tomoka Shibasaki
- Spring Garden (prize winnerl; read more about Spring Garden)
- Featured in Monkey Business: New Writing from Japan II and VI
- 2013: Hiroko Oyamada
- The Hole (prize winner)
- Featured in Granta 127: Japan
- Featured in Inside and Other Short Fiction: Japanese Women by Japanese Women
- Featured in Monkey Business: New Writing from Japan VII
- 2012: Natsuo Kuroda
- Featured in Heaven’s Wind: A Dual Language Anthology of Contemporary Japanese Writing
- 2011: Toe Enjoe
- Harlequin’s Butterfly (prize winner; partial translation)
- Self-Reference ENGINE
- Featured in Granta 127: Japan
- Featured in Monkey Business: New Writing from Japan
- Featured in Speculative Japan II
- 2007: Mieko Kawakami
- 2005: Akiko Itoyama
- In Pursuit of Lavender
- Waiting in the Offing (prize winner)
- 2005: Fuminori Nakamura
- 2004: Kazushige Abe
- 2003: Hitomi Kanehara
- Autofiction
- Snakes and Earrings (prize winner)
- Featured in The Book of Tokyo: A City in Short Fiction
- Featured in Digital Geishas and Talking Frogs: The Best 21st Century Short Stories from Japan
- 2003: Risa Wataya
- I Want to Kick You in the Back (prize winner)
- 2002: Tamaki Daido
- Featured in Inside and Other Short Fiction: Japanese Women by Japanese Women
- 2000: Toshiyuki Horie
- The Bear and the Paving Stone (prize winner)
- Featured in The Book of Tokyo: A City in Short Fiction
- Featured in Digital Geishas and Talking Frogs: The Best 21st Century Short Stories from Japan
- 2000: Kou Machida
- Punk Samurai Slash Down
- 1999: Chiya Fujino
- Featured in Inside and Other Short Fiction: Japanese Women by Japanese Women
- Featured in Tokyo Fragments: Short Stories of Tokyo by Five of Japan’s Leading Contemporary Writers
- 1998: Keiichiro Hirano
- A Man
- Transparent Labyrinth
- Featured in The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature
- 1997: Shun Medoruma
- In the Woods of Memory
- Featured in Islands of Protest: Japanese Literature from Okinawa (includes prize-winning Droplets)
- 1996: Miri Yu
- Gold Rush
- Tokyo Ueno Station
- 1996: Hiromi Kawakami
- Manazuru (read more about Manazuru)
- The Nakano Thrift Shop
- Parade
- People from My Neighborhood (read more about People from My Neighborhood)
- Record of a Night Too Brief (includes prize-winning A Snake Stepped On)
- Strange Weather in Tokyo (also published in translation as The Briefcase)
- The Ten Loves of Nishino
- 1995: Matayoshi Eiki
- 1995: Kazushi Hosaka
- 1993: Hikaru Okuizumi
- The Stones Cry Out (prize winner)
- 1992: Yoko Tawada
- The Bridegroom Was a Dog (prize winner)
- The Emissary (sometimes titled The Last Children of Tokyo)
- Facing the Bridge (short stories)
- Memoirs of a Polar Bear (originally published in German)
- The Naked Eye (originally published in German)
- Three Streets (expect summer 2020)
- Time Differences
- Where Europe Begins (short stories) (originally published in German)
- Yoko Tawada’s Portrait of a Tongue: An Experimental Translation (originally published in German)
- 1990: Yoko Ogawa (1990 winner)
- The Diving Pool: Three Novellas (including prize-winning Pregnancy Diary)
- Hotel Iris
- The Housekeeper and the Professor
- The Memory Police
- Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales
- Featured in The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories
- 1990: Noboru Tsujihara
- Jasmine
- Featured in Digital Geishas and Talking Frogs: The Best 21st Century Short Stories from Japan
- 1987: Natsuki Ikezawa
- Mariko/Mariquita
- The Navidad Incident: The Downfall of Matias Guili
- Still Lives (prize winner)
- 1985: Fumiko Kometani
- Passover (prize winner)
- Wasabi for Breakfast: Two Novels
- 1984: Satoko Kizaki
- The Phoenix Tree and Other Stories (includes prize-winning Phoenix Tree)
- The Sunken Temple
- 1983: Nobuko Takagi
- Fantasia
- Translucent Tree
- Featured in Inside and Other Short Fiction: Japanese Women by Japanese Women
- Featured in Speculative Japan II
- 1982: Juro Kara
- Featured in The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature
- 1982: Yukiko Kato
- In the Meadow
- 1977: Teru Miyamoto
- Kinshu: Autumn Brocade
- Phantom Lights and Other Stories
- Rivers (includes prize-winning Firefly River)
- 1977: Ryu Murakami
- 69
- Almost Transparent Blue (prize winner)
- Audition
- Coin Locker Babies
- From the Fatherland, with Love
- In the Miso Soup
- Piercing
- Popular Hits of the Showa Era
- Tokyo Decadence: 15 Stories
- 1975: Kyoko Hayashi
- Ritual of Death (prize winner)
- Featured in Annotated Japanese Literary Gems I
- Featured in The Crazy Iris and Other Stories of the Atomic Aftermath
- 1975: Kenji Nakagami
- The Cape and Other Stories from the Japanese Ghetto (includes prize-winning The Cape)
- Snakelust
- 1974: Keizo Hino
- 1973: Shizuko Go
- Requiem (prize-winner)
- 1972: Michiko Yamamoto
- Betty-san (includes prize-winning Betty’s Garden)
- 1971: Mineo Higashi
- Featured in Okinawa: Two Postwar Novellas (includes prize-winning An Okinawan Boy)
- 1970: Yoshikichi Furui
- Child of Darkness: Yoko and Other Stories (includes prize-winning Yoko)
- Ravine and Other Stories
- White-Haired Melody
- Featured in The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature
- 1968: Minako Oba
- Of Birds Crying
- Featured in The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories
- Featured in This Kind of Woman: Ten Stories by Japanese Women Writers (includes prize winner Three Crabs)
- 1967: Tatsuhiro Oshiro
- Featured in Okinawa: Two Postwar Novellas (includes prize-winning The Cocktail Party)
- Featured in Southern Exposure: Modern Japanese Literature from Okinawa
- 1963: Taeko Kono
- Toddler-Hunting and Other Stories (includes prize-winning novel Crabs)
- Featured in The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories
- Featured in Rabbits, Crabs, Etc.: Stories by Japanese Women (includes prize-winning novel Crabs)
- 1963: Tanabe Seiko
- A Thousand Strands of Black Hair
- 1960: Morio Kita
- The Adventures of Kupukupu the Sailor
- Ghosts
- The House of Nire
- Red Host, White Ghost: Stories and Essays
- 1960: Tetsuo Miura
- Shame in the Blood (prize-winning novel)
- 1958: Kenzaburo Oe
- The Catch and Other War Stories
- The Changeling
- Death by Water
- An Echo of Heaven
- A Healing Family
- Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids
- A Personal Matter
- The Pinch Runner
- A Quiet Life
- Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age!
- Seventeen and J
- The Silent Cry
- Somersault
- Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness: 4 Short Novels (includes prize-winning Prize Stock)
- 1957: Takeshi Kaiko (Akutagawa Prize winning author)
- Darkness in Summer
- Five Thousand Runaways (short story collection)
- Into a Black Sun
- Japan’s Threepenny Opera
- Panic and the Runaway: Two Stories
- The Emperor’s New Clothes (prize winner)
- 1955: Shusaku Endo
- Deep River
- The Final Martyrs
- Five by Endo
- Foreign Studies
- The Girl I Left Behind
- The Golden Country
- A Life of Jesus
- Sachiko
- The Samurai
- Scandal
- The Sea and Poison
- Silence
- Song of Sadness
- Stained Glass Elegies
- When I Whistle
- White Man, Yellow Man: Two Novellas (includes prize-winning White Man)
- Wonderful Fool
- Volcano
- 1955: Shintaro Ishihara
- Season of Violence (prize winner)
- Undercurrents: Episodes from a Life on the Edge
- 1954: Nobuo Kojima
- Embracing Family
- Long Belts and Thin Men: The Postwar Stories of Kojima Nobuo
- Featured in the Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature
- Featured in Contemporary Japanese Literature (includes prize-winning The American School)
- 1954: Junzo Shono
- Still Life and Other Stories (includes prize-winning A Poolside Life)
- Featured in The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature
- 1954: Junnosuke Yoshiyuki
- The Dark Room
- Fair Dalliance: Fifteen Stories
- Toward Dusk and Other Stories
- Featured in The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature
- Featured in New Writing in Japan (includes prize-winning Sudden Shower)
- Featured in The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories
- Featured in The Showa Anthology: Modern Japanese Short Stories
- 1953: Shotaro Yasuoka
- The Glass Slipper and Other Stories
- A View by the Sea (includes prize-winning Bad Company)
- Featured in The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature
- Featured in Murder in Japan: Japanese Stories of Crime and Detection
- Featured in New Writing in Japan
- Featured in The Showa Anthology: Modern Japanese Short Stories
- 1951: Kobo Abe
- Beasts Head for Home
- Beyond the Curve (includes prize-winning The Crime of S. Karuma)
- The Box Man
- The Face of Another
- Inter Ice Age 4
- Kangaroo Notebook
- The Ruined Map
- Secret Rendezvous
- The Woman in the Dunes
- 1949: Yasushi Inoue (Akutagawa Prize winning author)
- The Blue Wolf: A Novel of the Life of Chinggis Khan
- Bullfight (prize winner)
- The Counterfeiter and Other Stories
- The Hunting Gun
- Confucius
- Life of a Counterfeiter
- Lou-Lan and Other Stories
- Roof Tile of Tempyo
- Shirombamba: A Childhood in Old Japan
- The Samurai Banner of Furin Kazan
- Tun-Huang
- Wind and Waves
- Featured in Annotated Japanese Literary Gems
- Featured in The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature
- Featured in The Izu Dancer and Other Stories
- Featured in The Modern Japanese Prose Poem
- Featured in Modern Japanese Short Stories
- Featured in Modern Japanese Stories: An Anthology
- Featured in The Showa Anthology
- 1937: Ozaki Kazuo
- Rosy Glasses and Other Stories (prize winner)
- Featured in The Columbia Anthology of Japanese Literature
- Featured in Modern Japanese Short Stories
- 1936: Jun Ishikawa
- The Bodhisattva (prize winner)