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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. Bunkobon - Wikipedia

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   In Japan, bunkobon (文庫本) are small-format paperback books, designed to be affordable and space-saving. The great majority of bunkobon are A6 (105×148mm or 4.1"×5.8") in size. [1] They are sometimes illustrated and like other Japanese paperbacks usually have a dust wrapper over a plain cover.

4. The Complete Manual of Suicide - Wikipedia

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   Some prefectures designated the book as "books harmful to youth" (Japanese: 有害図書, romanized: yuugaitosho, lit. 'harmful book'), which restricts the sale of books to minors, while some prefectures, such as Tokyo, decided against doing so. There are many suicides where the book was found along with the body, including several cases of the ...

5. Manga - Wikipedia

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   In Japan, manga constituted an annual 40.6 billion yen (approximately US$395 million) publication-industry by 2007. [81] In 2006 sales of manga books made up for about 27% of total book-sales, and sale of manga magazines, for 20% of total magazine-sales. [82]

6. Battle Royale (novel) - Wikipedia

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   Battle Royale (Japanese: バトル・ロワイアル, Hepburn: Batoru Rowaiaru) is a Japanese dystopian horror novel by journalist Koushun Takami. Battle Royale is the first novel from Takami and was originally completed in 1996 but was not published until 1999.

7. Confessions (Minato novel) - Wikipedia

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   Confessions is Stephen Snyder's 2014 translation of Kanae Minato's 2008 debut novel, Kokuhaku.It is a suspense novel that traces the impact of a schoolteacher's act of revenge, and it deals with themes of motherhood and power as well as social issues like AIDS and hikikomori.

8. Tankōbon - Wikipedia

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   A tankōbon (単行本, "independent or standalone book") [a] is a standard publishing format for books in Japan, alongside other formats such as shinsho (17x11 cm paperback books) and bunkobon. Used as a loanword in English, the term specifically refers to a printed collection of a manga that was previously published in a serialized format.

9. Aozora Bunko - Wikipedia

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   This is an explanatory illustration prepared by Aozora Bunko as part of project encouraging Japanese citizens to contact Diet members in an effort to express a point-of-view. Aozora Bunko was created on the Internet in 1997 to provide broadly available, free access to Japanese literary works whose copyrights had expired.