• Eisuke Aikawa
• Maru Ayase
• Fumiko Enchi
• Kaori Ekuni
• Taiyo Fujii
- “Just Like Migratory Birds”
- Orbital Cloud (excerpt)
• Kaori Fujino
• Hideo Furukawa
• Kanji Hanawa
• Maha Harada
• Moe Haruno
• Kyoko Hayashi
• Lafcadio Hearn
- In Ghostly Japan
- Kimiko, and Other Japanese Sketches
- Kotto: Being Japanese Curios, with Sundry Cobwebs
- Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things
- Shadowings
• Nakai Hideo
• Keiichiro Hirano
• Toshiyuki Horie
• Tomoyuki Hoshino
• Natsuko Imamura
- The Woman in the Purple Skirt (excerpt)
• Kotarao Isaka
• Sota Ishiki
• Akiko Itoyama
• Keishi Kajifune
• Masami Kakinuma
• Mitsuyo Kakuta
• Hiromi Kawakami
- “Blue Moon”
- “God Bless You, 2011”
- “I Won’t Let You Go”
- Strange Weather in Tokyo (excerpt)
- The Ten Loves of Nishino (excerpt)
Learn more about Hiromi Kawakami with the RJL podcast.
• Mieko Kawakami
- “About Her and the Memories That Belong to Her”
- Breasts and Eggs (excerpt in Manchester dialect)
- “The Flowers Look More Beautiful Now Than Ever”
- “Golden Slumbers” (article limit)
- “How Much Heart”
- “Shame”
- “Where Have All the Sundays Gone?”
- “Wisteria”
Learn more about Mieko Kawakami with the RJL podcast.
• Sachiko Kishimoto
• Kou Machida
• Kuzuha Makino
• Aoko Matsuda
• Masashi Matsuie
• Shun Medoruma
• Yu Miri
• Kenji Miyazawa
• Nako Mori
• Tomihiko Morimi
Learn more about Tomihiko Morimi with the RJL podcast.
• Yukiko Motoya
- “The Lonesome Bodybuilder”
- “That Morning, When It”
- “Why I Can No Longer Look at a Picnic Blanket without Laughing”
• Haruki Murakami
- “Confessions of a Shinagawa Monkey”
- “Cream”
- “The Folklore of Our Times”
- “Honey Pie”
- “Hunting Knife”
- “The Kingdom That Failed”
- “Kino”
- “Samsa in Love”
- “Scheherazade”
- “A Shinagawa Monkey”
- “The Town of Cats”
- “U.F.O. in Kushiro”
- “Where I’m Likely to Find It”
- “The Windup Bird and Tuesday’s Women”
- “The Wind Cave”
- “With the Beatles”
- “A Year of Spaghetti”
- “Yesterday”
- “The Zoo Attack”
- *Note that The New Yorker has an article view limit.
• Ryu Murakami
- “The Last Picture Show”
- “Whenever I Sit at a Bar Drinking Like This, I Always Think What a Sacred Profession Bartending Is”
• Sayaka Murata
Learn more about Sayaka Murata with the RJL podcast.
• Kyoko Nakajima
• Kaho Nakayama
- Sentimental Education (excerpt)
[list is currently being updated and reformatted]
- Yoshitaka Namboku
- Ikezawa Natsuki
- Kuroda Natsuko
- Kanako Nishi
- Edogawa Ranpo
- Mori Ogai
- Kido Okamoto
- Ao Omae
- Masatsugo Ono
- Hiroko Oyamada
- The Hole (excerpt)
- Tettyo Seito
- Tomoka Shibasaki
- Natsume Soseki
- Botchan
- I Am a Cat (volume 1)
- Bin Sugawara
- Izumi Suzuki
- Juan Takai
- Fumiki Takahashi
- Kazumi Takahashi
- Kumiko Takahashi
- Yuta Takano
- Yusho Takiguchi
- Masatomo Tamaru
- Natsumi Tanaka
- Yoko Tawada
- Sayuki Tayama
- “The Hole in the Garden” (four parts)
- “Spirit Summoning” (six parts)
- Kikuko Tsumura
- Takahiro Ueda
- Miri Yu
- Amy Yamada
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.