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Kamikaze Girls, originally released in Japan as Shimotsuma Monogatari: Yankī-chan to Rorīta-chan (下妻物語 ヤンキーちゃんとロリータちゃん, "Shimotsuma Story: Delinquent Girl and Lolita Girl"), [4] [5] is a 2002 Japanese light novel written by Novala Takemoto.
Yoko is injured from the bombing and the women are forced to walk the rest of the way. After receiving medical treatment in Seoul, Yoko, her sister, and mother board a train to Busan, and then a ship to Japan. When Yoko, her sister Ko, and her mother reach Fukuoka, Japan, it is not the beautiful, comforting, welcoming place Yoko dreamed of ...
Oborozukiyo: Inori (朧月夜~祈り) is the 2nd EP or mini-album (fourth overall album release) by Mika Nakashima. This album was limited to only 111,000 copies. The title track, a duet with violinist Taro Hakase, later appears on her Music album. ' 朧月夜~祈り ' translates to "A Misty, Moon-lit Night: Prayer."
Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales (寡黙な死骸みだらな弔い, Kamoku na shigai, Midara na tomurai) is a collection of interconnected short stories by Yōko Ogawa.It was published in Japan in 1998, [1] and in the United States by Picador in 2013.
On May/June 2009 issue of Bookmarks, the book received a (4.0 out of 5) based on critic reviews with a summary saying, "The success of Ogawa's "deceptively elegant novel" (New York Times Book Review) was a surprise, considering its lack of action, romance, melodrama, and even character names (none of which are ever mentioned)".
The Last Children of Tokyo, originally published in Japanese as Kentoshi (献灯使), is a 2014 science fiction novel by Yoko Tawada. The English version, translated by Margaret Mitsutani, [1] was published in the UK in 2018. It was published in the US as The Emissary. [2]
John Shearer/Getty Images Kelsea Ballerini’s next studio album, Patterns, will be released in the fall. “Let’s start unpacking,” Ballerini, 30, wrote via Instagram on Thursday, August 8 ...
No Longer Human (Japanese: 人間失格, Hepburn: Ningen Shikkaku), also translated as A Shameful Life, is a 1948 novel by Japanese author Osamu Dazai.It tells the story of a troubled man incapable of revealing his true self to others, and who, instead, maintains a façade of hollow jocularity, later turning to a life of alcoholism and drug abuse before his final disappearance.