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2. The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories - Wikipedia

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   The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories is a 2018 English language anthology of Japanese literature edited by American translator Jay Rubin and published by Penguin Classics. With 34 stories, the collection spans centuries of short stories from Japan ranging from the early-twentieth-century works of Ryūnosuke Akutagawa and Jun'ichirō ...

3. Run, Melos! - Wikipedia

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   "Run, Melos!" (走れメロス, Hashire Merosu) is a Japanese short story by Osamu Dazai.It was first published 1940 and is a widely read classic in Japanese schools. It was first used as teaching material for Japanese middle high schoolers in 1956.

4. Category:Japanese short stories - Wikipedia

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   Read; Edit; View history; Tools. ... Japanese short stories by writer (5 C) Japanese short story collections (3 C, 22 P) O. Otogi-zōshi (14 P)

5. Tales of Old Japan - Wikipedia

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   Tales of Old Japan (1871) is an anthology of short stories compiled by Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford, Lord Redesdale, writing under the better known name of A.B. Mitford. These stories focus on various aspects of Japanese life before the Meiji Restoration .

6. Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes - Wikipedia

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   Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes is a children's historical novel written by Canadian-American author Eleanor Coerr and published in 1977.It is based on the true story of Sadako Sasaki, a victim of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, in World War II, who set out to create a thousand origami cranes when dying of leukemia from radiation caused by the bomb.

7. Japanese folktales - Wikipedia

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   A representative sampling of Japanese folklore would definitely include the quintessential Momotarō (Peach Boy), and perhaps other folktales listed among the so-called "five great fairy tales" (五大昔話, Go-dai Mukashi banashi): [3] the battle between The Crab and the Monkey, Shita-kiri Suzume (Tongue-cut sparrow), Hanasaka Jiisan (Flower-blooming old man), and Kachi-kachi Yama.