This is a group of short stories centered around different sad-sack or comedic people in the waning days of World War II and the recovery after.

When Kurumi was a third year middle schooler, her mother squandered 20 million yen playing the foreign exchange market during an economic depression, and consequently, took her own life. Now an adult, Kurumi is...

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...

This is a short story collection anchored with the tale of a young woman who is trying to ignore the reality that her husband is a serial killer, including "The Record of Peter Kyulten", "Sensual Nights", "Lord...