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Ryunosuke Akutagawa’s Kappa | Books | Metropolis Japan
https://metropolisjapan.com/ryunosuke-akutagawas-kappa/>In his final and hotly debated 1927 work Kappa, Akutagawa keenly discerns the ironies of his own era. Kappa is a fusion of Gulliver’s Travels and Alice in Wonderland with Japanese mythology.
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I’ve read the first 4 chapters of 背いて故郷 by Tatsuo Shimizu (志水辰夫), and I love this novel!!
There was an interesting chapter about the relation between Japanese fishing boats and the Soviet Union (in the 1980s) which allowed me to learn some new words along the way.I also started yesterday the second book of the Akira Hamura series by Nanami Wakatake (若竹七海). The first short story was nice, hope I’ll have time to read the second one today :)
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CW: Japanese Bookish Advent Day 24 - Last day!
The last window of this event had to be a book by Keigo Higashino again! (He is the reason why I started learning Japanese in the first place.)
探偵ガリレオ (tantei galileo) and 予知夢 (yochimu) are the first two books of the Galileo series. They are not translated into English, but they are important to understand the relation between Kusanagi and Yukawa, which in turn gives more meaning to The Devotion of Suspect X.
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CW: Japanese Bookish Advent Day 23 - True Crime.
殺人犯はそこにいる (satsujinhanwa sokoni iru) by journalist Kiyoshi Shimizu (清水潔) is an incredible book about a miscarriage of justice.
It covers the North Kanto Serial Young Girl Kidnapping and Murder Case that took place between 1979 and 1996.
The author goes through the steps that led to the wrongful conviction of Toshikazu Sugaya (菅家 利和). How the police managed the case is truly horrifying.
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CW: Japanese Bookish Advent Day 22 - Kogoro Akechi.
I had to include the Kogoro Akechi (明智小五郎) series, Edogawa Rampo’s famous detective, in the Bookish Advent!
If you only read one book of the series, it has to be the early cases! The first short stories are by far the best stories in my opinion, even though novels like The Black Lizard might be more famous.
En. Translation by William Varteresian: The Early Cases of Akechi Kogoro.
