I set out to showcase the robust variety of contemporary Japanese fiction, and I think these writers demonstrate just that, brilliantly.

We forget most dreams, so why should I dream this again and again?

The woman gave birth to a baby girl at the maternity hospital and then disappeared the very same day.

I walked on, and something followed.

I once had a baby brother. An oh-so-very strange one at that.

What is translation? Translation is an English word. Translation is, moreover, a somewhat peculiar English word. Peculiar, I would suggest, because it eludes definition. It is impossible to define because…