The Showa writer, Kyutaro Yamada was a medical student- Yamada, a young man who never went to the battlefield, continued to write about the state and problems of Japan at that time, sometimes sharply and...

Kyoto, 1966. The young Hamaguchi is working for a textile manufacturer whilst dreaming of becoming an artist, when an incident at the zoo involving the boss's daughter forces his hand. He moves to Tokyo at the...

From Lovely Strange Dark: A young craftsman meets the daughter of a painter he admired.

The story is about a young boy named Arashi Ishino who is obsessed with video games. He would spend all his time trying to beat the games and conquer the local arcades. He would meet competitors like Satoru...

Acclaimed for his visionary short-story collections The Push Man and Other Stories, Abandon the Old in Tokyo, and Good-Bye—originally created nearly forty years ago, but just as resonant now as ever—the...

From the appearance to the voice, a shop whose business is to assume the client's identity and act in their place, Gekkousha.

Tsurugi Shouichirou is the proprietor of a well-established, upscale miso shop. But he's best known for being a prodigal son and a "Jack-of-all-trades, master of none." Much to his well-wishers' dismay...

A collection of short stories. 1. The MoonlightOne midwinter night, some female prostitutes picked up a child, Kiyohito, in the red light district. He is forced to take clients at age 14; and in two years, he...

Spring, 1906. Ginjiro Tsukishima, owner of the Nihonbashi "Tsukishimaya", has amassed a fortune in stocks and is playing lavishly with his money in the brothels of Asakusa and Shin-Yoshiwara.However, a year...

In 1940s Japan during the war, long-time friends Aoi and Takahiko part ways as Takahiko is enlisted. For years, Aoi stayed in their hometown with the looming worry that his friend might not come back. He never...

The 18-year-old Taro Sato, who had no dreams or goals and was leading a lazy life, is scouted by chance to be a driver for a yakuza boss. Taro is at the mercy of the yakuza gang leader's life, which has...

Good-Bye is the third in a series of collected short stories from Drawn & Quarterly by the legendary Japanese cartoonist Yoshihiro Tatsumi, whose previous work has been selected for several annual “top 10...

Barefoot Gen recounts the bombing of Hiroshima from the perspective of a young boy, Gen, and his family. But the book's themes (the physical and psychological damage ordinary people suffer from war's realities)...

The popular Ogawa romance depicts the love and hate of twin sisters who are being played by a strange destiny. The twin sisters Maho and Mio, who were born in 1945 as daughters of painters, are 17 years old...

Set in post-World War II Japan, this is a story of young Haruomi, an heir of the prominent Morimura family. Stripped of his aristocratic title while facing a repossession of his estate, Haruomi finds himself...