- Kazushige Abe (2004 winner)
- Kobo Abe (1951 winner)
- Tamaki Daido (2002 winner)
- Featured in Inside and Other Short Fiction: Japanese Women by Japanese Women
- Matayoshi Eiki (1995 winner)
- Shusaku Endo (1955 winner)
- 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
- Toe Enjoe (2011 winner)
- Self-Reference ENGINE
- Featured in Granta 127: Japan
- Featured in Monkey Business: New Writing from Japan
- Featured in Speculative Japan II
- Chiya Fujino (1999 winner)
- 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
- Kaori Fujino (1999 winner)
- Yoshikichi Furui (1970 winner)
- Child of Darkness: Yoko and Other Stories (prize-winning short stories)
- Ravine and Other Stories
- White-Haired Melody
- Featured in The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature
- Shizuko Go (1973 winner)
- Requiem (prize-winning novel)
- Mineo Higashi (1971 winner)
- Featured in Okinawa: Two Postwar Novellas (includes prize-winning Child of Okinawa)
- Kyoko Hayashi (1975 winner)
- From Trinity to Trinity
- Featured in Annotated Japanese Literary Gems I
- Featured in The Crazy Iris and Other Stories of the Atomic Aftermath
- Keizo Hino (1974 winner)
- Keiichiro Hirano (1998 winner)
- A Man
- Transparent Labyrinth
- Featured in The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature
- Toshiyuki Horie (2000 winner)
- The Bear and the Paving Stone (prize-winning novel)
- 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
- Kazushi Hosaka (1995 winner)
- Natsuki Ikezawa (1987 winner)
- Mariko/Mariquita
- The Navidad Incident: The Downfall of Matias Guili
- Still Lives (prize-winning novel)
- Shintaro Ishihara (1955 winner)
- Season of Violence (prize-winning novel)
- Undercurrents: Episodes from a Life on the Edge
- Akiko Itoyama (2005 winner)
- Hitomi Kanehara (2003 winner)
- Autofiction
- Snakes and Earrings (prize-winning novel)
- 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
- Juro Kara (1982 winner)
- Featured in The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature
- Yukiko Kato (1982 winner)
- In the Meadow
- Hiromi Kawakami (1996 winner)
- 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
- Strange Weather in Tokyo (also published in translation as The Briefcase)
- The Ten Loves of Nishino
- Mieko Kawakami (2007 winner)
- Breasts and Eggs (prize-winning novel; read more about Breasts and Eggs)
- Ms Ice Sandwich
- Featured in The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories
- Takeshi Kaiko (1957 winner)
- Darkness in Summer
- Five Thousand Runaways
- Into a Black Sun
- Panic and the Runaway: Two Stories
- Japan’s Threepenny Opera
- Morio Kita (1960 winner)
- The Adventures of Kupukupu the Sailor
- Ghosts
- The House of Nire
- Red Host, White Ghost: Stories and Essays
- Satoko Kizaki (1984 winner)
- The Phoenix Tree and Other Stories (prize-winning short stories)
- The Sunken Temple
- Nobuo Kojima (1954 winner)
- Embracing Family
- Long Belts and Thin Men: The Postwar Stories of Kojima Nobuo
- Featured in the The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature
- Fumiko Kometani (1985 winner)
- Passover (prize-winning novel)
- Wasabi for Breakfast: Two Novels
- Taeko Kono (1963 winner)
- Toddler-Hunting and Other Stories
- Featured in The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories
- Featured in Rabbits, Crabs, Etc.: Stories by Japanese Women (includes prize-winning novel Crabs)
- Natsuo Kuroda (2012 winner)
- Featured in Heaven’s Wind: A Dual Language Anthology of Contemporary Japanese Writing
- Kou Machida (2000 winner)
- Punk Samurai Slash Down
- Shun Medoruma (1997 winner)
- Tetsuo Miura (1960 winner)
- Shame in the Blood (prize-winning novel)
- Teru Miyamoto (1977 winner)
- Yukiko Motoya (2015 winner)
- The Lonesome Bodybuilder: Stories (prize-winning short stories; also published as Picnic in the Storm)
- Vengeance Can Wait
- Featured in Granta 127: Japan
- Ryu Murakami (1977 winner)
- 69
- Almost Transparent Blue (prize-winning novel)
- Audition
- Coin Locker Babies
- From the Fatherland, with Love
- In the Miso Soup
- Piercing
- Popular Hits of the Showa Era
- Tokyo Decadence: 15 Stories
- Sayaka Murata (2016 winner)
- Convenience Store Woman (prize-winning novel)
- Earthlings (read more about Earthlings)
- Kenji Nakagami (1975 winner)
- The Cape and Other Stories from the Japanese Ghetto (prize-winning short stories)
- Snakelust
- Fuminori Nakamura (2005 winner)
- Kenzaburo Oe (1958 winner)
- 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 novel Prize Stock)
- Yoko Ogawa (1990 winner)
- Hikaru Okuizumi (1993 winner)
- The Stones Cry Out (prize-winning novel)
- Masatsugu Ono (2014 winner)
- At the Edge of the Wood
- Echo on the Bay
- Lion Cross Point
- Featured in Monkey Business: New Writing from Japan III
- Hiroko Oyamada (2013 winner)
- The Factory
- The Hole (prize-winning novel)
- 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
- Yuichi Seirai (2000 winner)
- Tanabe Seiko (1963 winner)
- A Thousand Strands of Black Hair
- Tomoka Shibasaki (2014 winner)
- Spring Garden (prize-winning novel; read more about Spring Garden)
- Featured in Monkey Business: New Writing from Japan II and VI
- Shono Junzo (1954 winner)
- Evening Clouds
- Still Life and Other Stories
- Featured in The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature
- Hiroki Takahashi (2018 winner)
- Featured in Speculative Japan IV
- Nobuko Takagi (1983 winner)
- Fantasia
- Translucent Tree
- Featured in Inside and Other Short Fiction: Japanese Women by Japanese Women
- Featured in Speculative Japan II
- Yoko Tawada (1992 winner)
- The Bridegroom Was a Dog (prize-winning novel)
- 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)
- Noboru Tsujihara (1990 winner)
- Jasmine
- Featured in Digital Geishas and Talking Frogs: The Best 21st Century Short Stories from Japan
- Risa Wataya (2003 winner)
- I Want to Kick You in the Back (prize-winning novel)
- Michiko Yamamoto (1972 winner)
- Betty-san (prize-winning novel)
- Junnosuke Yoshiyuki (1954 winner)
- 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
- Featured in The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories
- Featured in The Showa Anthology: Modern Japanese Short Stories
- Miri Yu (1996 winner)
- Gold Rush
- Tokyo Ueno Station