Newest Japanese Literature in 2020's @JPLIT2020

Introducing newest JP lit in 2020's which you can read in EN, moderated by Tokyoite novelist Tettyo Saito @GregariousGoGo Feel free to ask about JP lit! it/it Joined August 2020

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Newest Japanese Literature in 2020's @JPLIT2020

4 years ago

note.com/gregariousgogo… Love Him, Wholeheartedly So by Tettyo Saito @GregariousGoGo (trans. Tettyo Saito) This disquieting short dives into convoluted relationship between misogyny and misandry at the age of Youtube. Reciprocal animosity as body politics in Japan.

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note.com/gregariousgogo… Wholesomeness of Butthole Sunning by Tettyo Saito @GregariousGoGo (trans. Tettyo Saito) Mixed with internalized misogyny and ableism, a man is gradually devoured by ominousness of Japan itself in this vomiting tale of human degeneration in the 2020's.

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5 years ago

granta.com/nocturne/ Nocturne by Yūshō Takiguchi @takoguchiyusho (trans. Jesse Kirkwood @jpkirkwood) With a whimsical, intoxicating style, Takiguchi weaves a pathosful life of daring drunkards at nocturnal karaoke bar. Smells richly, lyrically like Japanese wisky.

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electricliterature.com/peony-lanterns… The Peony Lanterns by Aoko Matsuda @matsudaoko (trans. Polly Burton @pollyfmbarton) This is a strange love letter to kwaidan from one of our very best novelist Aoko Matsuda, with the introduction by one of your very best novelist Carmen Maria Machado.

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Jesse Kirkwood @jpkirkwood

5 years ago

Excited and honoured to have my translation of Nocturne by Yūshō Takiguchi (@takoguchiyusho) featured on @GrantaMag. I absolutely loved this subtle, evocative story and learned a huge amount from translating it. (It also gave me a strong desire for late-night pickled mackerel)

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note.com/gregariousgogo… She is Alive, He is Alive by Tettyo Saito (trans. Tettyo Saito) With an abysmal distrust for parenthood or its concept, this asphyxiating short depict the exigent situation when parents hope that their child dies. Aggravated despair in Japan.

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5 years ago

clarkesworldmagazine.com/kajifune_09_20/ The Book Reader by Keishi Kajifune @Kshi_kaji (trans. Toshiya Kamei @ToshiyaKamei) A girl meets a girl in the distopian future where human imagination is confined. Concise, having the potentiality to become an imaginative, eminent Sci-Fy novel.

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5 years ago

razzmatazzrazzledazzle.hatenadiary.com This time, not Japanese literature. But I, Tettyo Saito @GregariousGoGo, found a new online film magzine “Film! Film! Film!” It's a trillingual film magazine written in Japanese, English and Romanian by myself. If you're interested in film, check it out.

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note.com/gregariousgogo… Killing by a Car by Tettyo Saito @GregariousGoGo (trans. Tettyo Saito) After his brother is brutally killed by car accident, a boy seeks for vengence alone. Violence and rage explode in asphyxiating Japan under the Coronavirus pandemics.

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litmagazine.org/2019/11/25/all… All About Youth by Fumiki Takahashi @takahashifumiki (trans. Toshiya Kamei @ToshiyaKamei) In the life expanded to immortality, 120-year-old man reunites with his son after 50 years. Meticulous details transform it into profound meditation into mortality.

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tothelitehouse.com/2020/05/24/fly… Fly Like A Duck by Tettyo Saito @GregariousGoGo (trans. Tettyo Saito) In the Coronavirus confinement, a woman's nervous breakdown is connected to alcoholism, domestic violence and odious relationship between audiences and actors. Complex.

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ragazine.cc/that-girl-fict… That Girl by Kuzuha Makino @linguametallic (trans. Toshiya Kamei @ToshiyaKamei) Very short yet full of emotion, this short depicts a girl who reunites with her kindergarten teacher in the supermarket. Japanese female colloquial style meets Bukowski touch.

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note.com/gregariousgogo… Noe, You're Selfish by Tettyo Saito @GregariousGoGo (trans. Tettyo Saito) At the culmination of domestic violence increase under Coronavirus, this short depicts a woman exposed by violence from her girlfriend. Asphixiating, claustrophobic reality in Japan.

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granta.com/you-okay-for-t… You Okay for Time? by Kaori Fujino @fujinono (trans. Ginny Tapley Takemori) What expands in this ominous short is the desolate voidness behind the idea of best friend. Human emotion Fujino captures is tensely frigid like ultramarine magma.

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note.com/gregariousgogo… A Nose Shit by Tettyo Saito @GregariousGoGo (trans. Tettyo Saito) In Japan, eating his own nose shit is bragging about his toxic masculinity. This vomitting short exposes sinister connection between toxic masculinity and dirtiness on male phisicality.

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5 years ago

acrossthemargin.com/planet-ape/ Planet Ape by Juan Takai @GreatJuanism (trans. Toshiya Kamei @ToshiyaKamei) Speculative at the most liberating way, this Sci-Fi short offers to readers meditation on our future after calamity. Takai's vivid writing leads us to the journey through humanity.

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note.com/gregariousgogo… A Sperm Factory by Tettyo Saito @GregariousGoGo (trans. Tettyo Saito) A grim tale about a Japanese film critic who is exploited as a sperm factory by his girlfriend on the age of Coronavirus. It captures Japanese intelligence's passive-agressive misogyny.

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dailysciencefiction.com/hither-and-yon… The Fastener by Natsumi Tanaka @natsufuyut (trans. Toshiya Kamei @ToshiyaKamei) Based on sense of skin within Sci-Fi imagination, this delicate, sensitive tale depicts complexity of love. It has a poetry as if a petal of cherry blossom fell on the ground.