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The Japan Foundation now offers the Japanese Contemporary Literature Project. All are invited to participate.

Under the program, English translations of contemporary best-selling Japanese novels are made available free of charge to any interested groups. A group can be a class, a reading group, a casual gathering of friends, or any other organization that brings people together to read.

If there is sufficient interest in a region for a certain author, after the author's works have been read, the Foundation will invite the author from Japan to meet with the reading groups and discuss his or her work. It is an exciting opportunity.

Email info@jfny.org or call 212.489.0299 for more information.


PUBLISHING HOUSE
TITLE
AUTHOR
Picador
The Diving Pool: Three Novellas
Yoko Ogawa
St. Martin's Press
Bedtime Eyes
Amy Yamada
Vertical, Inc.
Sayonara, Gangsters
Genichiro Takahashi

The Japan Foundation can only provide books from 2008-2009 list; the other books are for readers’ reference only.


PUBLISHING HOUSE
TITLE
AUTHOR
Alfred A. Knopf
Grotesque
Natsuo Kirino
Kodansha International
Shadow Family
Miyuki Miyabe


PUBLISHING HOUSE
TITLE
AUTHOR
Kodansha International
The Bamboo Sword
Shuhei Fujisawa
Kodansha International
Inside and Other Short Fiction
Ruth Ozeki


PUBLISHING HOUSE
TITLE
AUTHOR
Kodansha International
Monkey Brain Sushi
anthology
Kodansha International
The Doctor's Wife
Sawako Ariyoshi
Vertical, Inc.
Naoko
Keigo Higashino
Vertical, Inc.
Ashes
Kenzo Kitakata
Kodansha International
Out
Natsuo Kirino
Vertical, Inc.
The Guin Saga: The Leopard Mask
Kaoru Kurimoto
Vertical, Inc.
The Guin Saga: Warrior in the Wilderness
Kaoru Kurimoto
Vertical, Inc.
The Guin Saga: The Battle of Nospherus
Kaoru Kurimoto
Knopf
Kafka on the Shore
Haruki Murakami
Kodansha International
In the Miso Soup
Ryu Murakami
Weatherhead Books on Asia
The Breaking Jewel
Makoto Oda
Viz, LCC
Battle Royale
Koushun Takami
Kodansha America
The Last Shogun
Ryotaro Shiba
Kodansha International
The Bridegroom was a Dog
Yoko Tawada
New Directions
Where Europe Begins
Yoko Tawada
Grove Press Books
Good Bye Tsugumi
Banana Yoshimoto