Wasafiri 102: Japan - Literatures of Remembering

Issue 102, Summer 2020 Special Issue: Japan: Literatures of Remembering 

Editorial The Making and Re-making of Memory

Interview Mieko Kawakami

Articles Hayao Miyazaki’s European Animation; Poems of the Perilous Season: Akiko’s Princess Saho; Unruly Subjects in 'Walking a Street Named Peace' and Tokyo Ueno Station; Hibakusha Memories: Between the Generations

Art Manga as Memory: Cocoon, In this Corner of the World and Popular History, The Politics of Ownership: Notes on Miyako Ishiuchi’s Photographs

Fiction Hideo Furukawa, Minako Ōba

Poetry Mimi Hachikai, Tamiki Hara, Hiromi Itō, Naha Kanie, Mieko Kawakami, Martha Nakamura, Sayaka Ōsaki, Ryōichi Wagō

Life-writing Kumiko Kakehashi, Susan Southard

Review Essay The Transformation of Identity in Contemporary Japanese Fiction

Reviews Osamu Dazai, A Shameful Life; Hiromi Kawakami, The Ten Loves of Mr Nishino; Aoko Matsuda, Where the Wild Ladies Are; Yoko Tawada, The Last Children of Tokyo

Guest Edited by Elizabeth Chappell, Hiromitsu Koiso and Yasuhiko Ogawa

Editorial

The Making and Re-making of Memory Elizabeth Chappell, Hiromitsu Koiso and Yasuhiko Ogawa

Articles

Untold Stories from the War: Women, Air Raids and Atomic Bombs Kumiko Kakehashi, trans. by Elizabeth Chappell Remembering and Forgetting: Life after Nuclear War Susan Southard Poems of the Perilous Season: Akiko Yosano’s Princess Saho Janine Beichman Unruly Subjects in Shun Medoruma’s ‘Walking a Street Named Peace’ and Miri Yū’s Tokyo Ueno Station Davinder L Bhowmik Hayao Miyazaki’s European Animation: From European Literary Influences to Nostalgic Re-imaginings Rayna Denison Hibakusha Memories: Between the Generations Elizabeth Chappell

Art Piece

Manga as Memory: Cocoon, In This Corner of the World and Popular History Jocelyne Allen The Politics of Ownership: Notes on Miyako Ishiuchi’s Photographs Yoshiaki Kai

Interview

An Interview with Mieko Kawakami
Hitomi Yoshio

Fiction

Warriors’ Dreams Hideo Furukawa, trans. by Morgan Giles Once She (Extract) Minako Ōba, trans. by Asa Yoneda

Poetry

Ghosts Ryōichi Wagō, trans. by Jeffrey Angles Makers of Darkness Sayaka Ōsaki, trans. by Jeffrey Angles A Plain-coloured Corpse Hiromi Itō, trans. by Jeffrey Angles Bone Picking Mimi Hachikai, trans. by Kyoko Yoshida Parting Martha Nakamura, trans. by Polly Barton Reputation Naha Kanie, trans. by Jeffrey Angles The Day Before Mieko Kawakami, trans. by Hitomi Yoshio Memories; Recollections Tamiki Hara, trans. by Andrew Campana

Reviews

Review Essay: The Transformation of Identity in Contemporary Japanese Fiction Roger Pulvers, Tokyo Performance Kazufumi Shiraishi, trans. by Raj Mahtani, Stand-in Companion Kanji Hanawa, trans. by Richard Nathan, Backlight Stephen Dodd Akiyuki Nosaka, trans. by Ginny Tapley Takemori, The Cake Tree in the Ruins Eluned Gramich Kyoko Nakajima, trans. by Ginny Tapley Takemori, The Little House Nick Bradley Osamu Dazai, trans. by Mark Gibeau, A Shameful Life Catherine Ames Hiroko Oyamada, trans. by David Boyd, The Factory Nadeschda Bachem Hiromi Kawakami, trans. by Allison Markin Powell, The Ten Loves of Mr Nishino Rowan Hisayo Buchanan Aoko Matsuda, trans. by Polly Barton, Where the Wild Ladies Are James Tink Yōko Tawada, trans. by Margaret Mitsutani, The Last Children of Tokyo Fukuko Kobayashi Yukio Mishima, trans. by Stephen Dodd, Life for Sale Alejandra Armendáriz-Hernández Jay Rubin, ed.; Haruki Murakami, introduction, The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories Lesley Downer Angus Turvill, ed. and trans., Heaven’s Wind: A Dual Language Anthology of Contemporary Japanese Writing Susan Meehan Yukiko Motoya, trans. by Asa Yoneda, Picnic in the Storm Duncan Hume