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Kat - Updated 02/18/25
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The Silent Cry
Kenzaburo Oe • 2016
Lonely Castle in the Mirror
Tsujimura Mizuki • 2022
Tokyo Express
Seichō Matsumoto • 2023
The Book of Five Rings
Musashi Miyamoto • 1645
The Tale of the Heike
1219
The Last Children of Kyoto
Yoko Tawada • 2014
The Narrow Road To The Deep North
Matsuo Basho • 1694
The Makioka Sisters
Junichiro Tanizaki • 1995
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Haruki Murakami • 1998
A Personal Matter
Kenzaburo Oë • 1994
Sweet Bean Paste
Durian Sukegawa • 2017
Underground
Haruki Murakami • 1997
The Pillow Book
Sei Shonagon • 1002
Japan sinks
Sakyō Komatsu • 1976
Taiko
Eiji Yoshikawa • 1941
The Seven Samurai: And Other Screenplays
Akira Kurosawa • 1992
Silence
Shusaku Endo • 1966
Tokyo Ueno Station
Yu Miri • 2020
The Waiting Years
Fumiko Enchi • 2002
The Gossamer Years: The Diary of a Noblewoman of Heian Japan
1989
The Woman in the Dunes
Kobo Abe • 1991
The Lonesome Bodybuilder
Yukiko Motoya • 2018
Cloud of Sparrows
Takashi Matsuoka • 2002
Japanese Ghost Stories
Lafcadio Hearn • 1904
The Factory
Hiroko Oyamada • 2019
An Artist of the Floating World
Kazuo Ishiguro • 1989
The Honjin Murders
Seishi Yokomizo • 2021
Finished
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
Yukio Mishima • 1994
The Reason I Jump
Naoki Higashida • 2016
No Longer Human
Osamu Dazai • 1973
Battle Royale
Koushun Takami • 2014
I Am a Cat
Soseki Natsume • 2001
The Woman in the Purple Skirt
Natsuko Imamura • 2021
The Devotion of Suspect X: A Detective Galileo Novel
Keigo Higashino • 2012
Snow Country
Yasunari Kawabata • 2013
The Thief
Fuminori Nakamura • 2009
Kokoro
Natsume Soseki • 1996
Rashomon
Ryunosuke Akutagawa • 2017
How Do You Live?
Genzaburo Yoshino • 2021
Earthlings
Sayaka Murata • 2021
Breasts and Eggs
Mieko Kawakami • 2020
Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination
Edogawa Rampo • 2012
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
Yukio Mishima • 1994
Vibrator
Mari Akasaka • 2008
Night of the Milky Way Railway
Kenji Miyazawa • 1991
The Travelling Cat Chronicles
Hiro Arikawa • 2018
The Memory Police
Yoko Ogawa • 2020
In the Miso Soup
Ryu Murakami • 2006
Out
Natsuo Kirino • 2005
The Housekeeper and the Professor
Yoko Ogawa • 2009
Territory Of Light
Yuko Tsushima • 2019
Convenience Store Woman
Sayaka Murata • 2019
Ring
Koji Suzuki • 2003
Strange Weather in Tokyo
Hiromi Kawakami • 2017
Almost Transparent Blue
Ryu Murakami • 2003
Kitchen
Banana Yoshimoto • 2015
In Praise of Shadows
Junichiro Tanizaki • 1977
The Book of Tea
Okakura Kakuzo • 2011
Geisha, A Life
Mineko Iwasaki • 2003
Reading
The Tale of Genji
Murasaki Shikibu • 2015
