Free-to-Read Modern Japanese Fiction

• Eisuke Aikawa

• Fumiko Enchi

• Kaori Ekuni

• Taiyo Fujii

• Kaori Fujino

• Hideo Furukawa

• Kanji Hanawa

• Maha Harada

• Moe Haruno

• Kyoko Hayashi

• Lafcadio Hearn

• Nakai Hideo

[update in progress]

• Hiromi Kawakami

Learn more about Hiromi Kawakami with the RJL podcast.

• Mieko Kawakami

Learn more about Mieko Kawakami with the RJL podcast.

• Sachiko Kishimoto

• Kou Machida

• Kuzuha Makino

• Aoko Matsuda

• Masashi Matsuie

• Shun Medoruma

• Yu Miri

• Haruki Murakami

• Ryu Murakami

Anthologies

Thank you to Asymptote, Book Shorts, Chicago Review, Granta, Electric Literature, Note, Project Gutenberg, Lunch Ticket, Samovar, Words without Borders, authors, translators, and all those who make Japanese literature more accessible to English-language readers.