Stories from a Japanese master of transformative fiction, where reality, myth, and human foibles meet shifting dimensions of gender, biology, and destiny.| Stone Bridge Press
Part 1: Yanagi Sōetsu and Mingei Yanagi Sōetsu (1889–1961) was a Japanese philosopher who pioneered the influential aesthetic concept and...| Stone Bridge Press
In her new collection, A Hundred Years and a Day: 34 Stories , Tomoka Shibasaki —acclaimed author of the novel Spring Garden —offers a...| Stone Bridge Press
In Allen Weiss’s forthcoming book on Kyoto’s artistic landscape, Illusory Dwellings , he writes about the unease with which modern...| Stone Bridge Press
Recently, writer and translator Frederik L. Schodt was inducted into the Manga Publishing Hall of Fame at this year’s American Manga...| Stone Bridge Press
Maybe you’ve heard that travel to Japan is booming . This is thanks in no small part to the advantageous exchange rate of the US dollar...| Stone Bridge Press
Tokyo Swindlers, the best-selling novel by Ko Shinjo and the basis for Netflix Japan’s newest crime series of the same name, will make its..| Stone Bridge Press
Recently I had the great pleasure of seeing Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s latest film Evil Does Not Exist. It confirmed my feeling that Hamaguchi...| Stone Bridge Press
Steve Beimel, a long-time resident of Kyoto, is the driving force behind Japan Craft 21, whose goal is to preserve and nourish Japanese...| Stone Bridge Press
Stone Bridge Press is pleased to announce Off the Beaten Tracks in Japan: A Journey by Train from Hokkaido to Kyushu by John Dougill has...| Stone Bridge Press
Takaoka's Travels by Tatsuhiko Shibusawa is a beloved gem in Japanese literature that has captivated readers for decades. Winner of the...| Stone Bridge Press
Translator Mark Gibeau and publisher Peter Goodman discuss Mark’s translation of Osamu Dazai’s novel Ningen Shikkaku, which Stone Bridge...| Stone Bridge Press
Over the past month a coincidence of events has occasioned me to think about Journey to the West: reading our new translation of...| Stone Bridge Press
Part 2: From Japanese to English This is a follow up to our previous post on the history of literary exchange between Japanese and...| Stone Bridge Press
Part 1: From English to Japanese It’s easy to take for granted today the porousness of national boundaries and the effortless...| Stone Bridge Press
Takaoka's Travels by Tatsuhiko Shibusawa is a beloved gem in Japanese literature that has captivated readers for decades. Winner of the...| Stone Bridge Press
Escape to Japan's fabled Kanazawa in a tale of love, loss, and redemption in The Heron Catchers by David Joiner. After Nozomi abandons...| Stone Bridge Press
Eager to know what it's like traveling Japan by train? What lies beyond the well-trodden tourist paths of Japan? Embark on a captivating...| Stone Bridge Press
From the bestselling author of Strange Weather in Tokyo comes this otherworldly collection of eight stories, each a masterpiece of transformation, infused with humor, sex, and the universal search for love and beauty—in a world where the laws of time and space, and even species boundaries, don’t apply. Meet a shape-shifting con man, a goddess who uses sex to control her followers, an elderly man possessed by a fox spirit, a woman who falls in love with her 400-year-old ancestor, a kitchen...| Stone Bridge Press
Introducing Tatsuhiko Shibusawa—Japan’s Italo Calvino—in this fantastical tale of a Japanese prince who encounters both beauty and danger on a pilgrimage to India.| Stone Bridge Press
Essays on the nature, creation, and presentation of art, craft , and architecture in Japan, springing from the author’s experiences in Kyoto.| Stone Bridge Press
How to understand Journey to the West, part 2This is a follow up to my last post describing the content and context of Journey to the West. Frederik H. Green is professor of Chinese at San Francisco State University and the translator of Bird Talk and Other Stories, a collection of stories by the Chinese author Xu Xu. We sat down to talk about the historical background of the Journey and how readers can approach the novel in translation today.John Sockolov: I’d like to start by asking you a...| Stone Bridge Press
When it comes to exploring the rich tapestry of Japanese culture, Kyoto stands as a beacon of tradition, art, and philosophy. In his latest book, Illusory Dwellings: Aesthetic Meditations in Kyoto, Allen S. Weiss takes readers on a captivating journey through the essence of Kyoto's artistic landscape. Far from a mere travel guide, this book is a profound philosophical exploration of how to observe, appreciate, and understand the intricate layers of beauty woven into Kyoto's cultural fabric.T...| Stone Bridge Press
The Silver Spoon is a sharp detailing of life at the end of the Meiji period (1912) through the eyes of a boy as he grows into adolescence.| Stone Bridge Press
A new, definitive translation of the postwar classic know to the west as No Longer Human—a tortured vision inspiring the likes of Junji Ito and Bungo Stray Dogs| Stone Bridge Press