Murakami, after the quake: stories (2002)

Haruki Murakami.
after the quake: stories.
Translated by Jay Rubin.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002.
New York: Vintage International, 2003.
Originally published: 神の子どもたちはみな踊る, Kami no Kodomo-tachi wa Mina Odoru [literal translation: "All God's Children Dance"], Tokyo: Shinchosha, 2000.

Book Information : Publisher USA; Publisher UK; Wikipedia; Google Books; Amazon.com; GoodReads.com.

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Author Information :

• Haruki Murakami, harukimurakami.com, Penguin Random House.
  (This website has a little more than one usually finds in an author webpage maintained by a publisher.)
• Haruki Murakami, Penguin Books Ltd. (UK), A Penguin Random House Company.
• Haruki Murakami (b. 1949), Wikipedia English.
• 村上春樹 (1949–), Wikipedia Japan.
• murakami.club.
• Search for works created by Haruki Murakami, Internet Archive.
• Haruki Murakami, GoodReads.com.
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• 村上春樹, 神の子どもたちはみな踊る ["All of God's Children Dance"], 2000, Wikipedia Japan.
  (See this article for links to separate articles about each story in the collection.)
• Haruki Murakami, After the Quake, Wikipedia English.
  (This article has a synopsis of each story in the collection.)
• Great Hanshin earthquake (aka Kobe earthquake), 17 January 1995, Wikipedia English.
• 阪神・淡路大震災 [The Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake], 17 January 1995, Wikipedia Japan.
  (Article includes a discussion of the various names given to the event, and this, the official government bestowed name.)
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• Japanese literature: Postwar literature (1945–onwards), Wikipedia English.
• 日本の近現代文学史 [History of modern Japanese literature], Wikipedia Japan.

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Translator Information :

• Jay Rubin (b. 1941), Wikipedia.
• Jay Rubin, "The Other World of Murakami Haruki," Japan Quarterly, volume 39, number 4, 1991.
• Jay Rubin. Haruki Murakami and the Music of Words. London: Random House UK, 2002; Vintage UK, 2005.
  [Publisher; Wikipedia; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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Ōe, Teach us to Outgrow Our Madness (1977)

Kenzaburō Ōe.
Teach us to Outgrow Our Madness: Four Short Novels.
Translated by John Nathan.
New York: Grove Press, 1977, 1994.

Book Information : Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com; GoodReads.com.

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Author Information :

• Kenzaburō Ōe (1935–2023), Wikipedia English.
• 大江 健三郎 (1935–2023), Wikipedia Japan.
• 1994 Nobel Prize in Literature, Wikipedia English.
• Kenzaburō Ōe, "Japan, The Ambiguous, and Myself," Nobel Lecture, 07 December 1994.
• Kenzaburo Oe, Grove Atlantic (publishes many English translations of Oe's works in the USA).
• Search for works by Kenzaburō Ōe, Internet Archive.
• Kenzaburō Ōe, GoodReads.com.
• Japanese literature: Postwar literature (1945–onwards), Wikipedia English.
• 日本の近現代文学史 [History of modern Japanese literature], Wikipedia Japan.
• Postwar Japan, Wikipedia English.
• 連合国軍占領期後の日本 [Japan after the Allied Occupation], Wikipedia Japan.

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Translator Information :

• John Nathan (b. 1940), Wikipedia.
• John Nathan, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies, University of California Santa Barbara.
• John Nathan, GoodReads.com.
• John Nathan. Japan Unbound: A Volatile Nation's Quest for Pride and Purpose. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004.
  [Google Books; GoodReads.com; Amazon.com.]
• John Nathan. Living Carelessly in Tokyo and Elsewhere: A Memoir. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008.
  [Publisher; Google Books; GoodReads.com; Amazon.com.]
• John Nathan, "Kenzaburo Oe: Mapping the Land of Dreams," Japan Quarterly, vol. 42, num. 1, January-March 1995.
• Preston L. Houser, "Awakening the Goddess Within: An Interview with Mayumi Oda [conducted Summer 1999]," Kyoto Journal, 02 October 2011.
  (Mayumi Oda was the first wife of John Nathan.)

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Contents of Teach us to Outgrow Our Madness: Four Short Novels :

1. "The Day He Himself Shall Wipe My Tears Away," 1974.
2. "Prize Stock," 1958.
   • 飼育 (小説), "Shiiku" (Breeding / Cultivation / Care), English translation title "Prize Stock," 1958.
     (The 1957 date given by English Wikipedia differs from Wikipedia Japan's 1958 which I consider more authoritative on the topic of Japanese authors.)
   • Won the Akutagawa Prize [芥川龍之介賞] for the first half of 1958.
   • The translation of "Prize Stock" by John Nathan was reprinted in :
     The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories, Edited by Theodore W. Goossen, Oxford University Press, 1997, 2010.
     [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com, 1997; Amazon.com, 2010.]
     My post for the Oxford anthology is here.
3. "Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness," 1969.
4. "Aghwee the Sky Monster," 1964.

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Murakami, The Elephant Vanishes: Stories (1994)

Haruki Murakami.
The Elephant Vanishes: Stories.
Translated by Alfred Birnbaum and Jay Rubin.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993; New York: Vintage International, 1994.

Book Information : Publisher; Wikipedia; Google Books; Amazon.com; GoodReads.com.

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Author Information :

• Haruki Murakami, Penguin Random House
  (website has a little more than one usually finds in a author webpage maintained by a publisher).
• Haruki Murakami (b. 1949), Wikipedia English.
• 村上春樹 (1949–), Wikipedia Japan.
• Search for works created by Haruki Murakami, Internet Archive.
• Haruki Murakami, GoodReads.com.
• Japanese literature: Postwar literature (1945–onwards), Wikipedia English.
• 日本の近現代文学史 [History of modern Japanese literature], Wikipedia Japan.
• The Elephant Vanishes, a collection of stories originally written 1980-1991, Wikipedia.
• About Noboru Watanabe:
  • MK, "Haruki Murakami’s Best Friend" [Mizumaru Anzai (1942-2014)], murakami.club, 10 September 2021.
• murakami.club.

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Translator Information :

• Alfred Birnbaum (b. 1955), Wikipedia.
• Jay Rubin (b. 1941), Wikipedia.

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Sansom, Japan: A Short Cultural History (1978)

G. B. Sansom.
Japan: A Short Cultural History.
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1978.

(Publication history: First edition 1931; Second edition 1943; Second edition revised 1952.
The 1978 Stanford reprint is of the 1952 revised second edition.)

Book Information : Publisher; Amazon.com; Archive.org.

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Author Information :

• George Sansom (1883 – 1965), Wikipedia.
• Marius B. Jansen, Donald Keene and Arthur F. Wright, "Sir George Sansom — An Appreciation," The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 24, Issue 4, August 1965, pages 561-562.
  (Alternate copy at Cambridge University Press.)
• Katharine Sansom. Sir George Sansom and Japan: A Memoir. Tallahassee, Florida: The Diplomatic Press, 1972.
  [Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Search for George Sansom at Archive.org.

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Wikipedia Articles :

• History of Japan.
• Shogun, "the title of the military rulers of Japan during most of the period spanning from 1185 to 1868".
• Culture of Japan.
• Religion in Japan.
• Shinto.
• Buddhism in Japan.
• Edo neo-Confucianism.
• Japanese art.
• Japanese aesthetics.
• Japanese people.
• Genetic and anthropometric studies on Japanese people.

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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy :

• Graham Parkes and Adam Loughnane, Japanese Aesthetics.
• Japanese Philosophy.
• Japanese Confucian Philosophy.
• Huayan Buddhism (Kegon in Japan).
• Tiantai Buddhism (Tendai in Japan).
• Japanese Pure Land Philosophy.
• Daoism.
• Japanese Zen Buddhist Philosophy.
• The Kokugaku (Native Japan Studies) School.
• Kūkai (774–835).
Other articles that seem relevant to Japan or refer to a period not covered by Sansom's book:
• Chinese Ethics.
• Communitarianism.
• Religious Diversity (Pluralism).
• The Kyoto School of philisophy, 20th Century.

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More Recently Published Books :

Some recently published books that cover the same topics as Sansom's Japan: A Short Cultural History.
• Mikiso Hane and Louis G. Perez. Premodern Japan: A Historical Survey, second edition. Westview Press, 2015; New York: Routledge, 2018.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Nancy K. Stalker. Japan: History and Culture from Classical to Cool. Oakland: University of California Press, 2018.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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Kaga, Marshland (2024)

Otohiko Kaga.
Marshland.
Translated by Albert Novick.
Dallas, Texas: Dalkey Archive Press / Deep Vellum Publishing, 2024.
Originally published: 湿原, Shitsugen, Asahi Shimbun, 1985.

Book Information : Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com; GoodReads.com.

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Author Information :

• Otohiko Kaga (1929–2023), Wikipedia English.
• 加賀乙彦 (1929–2023), Wikipedia Japan.
• Search for works by Otohiko Kaga, Internet Archive.
• Otohiko Kaga, GoodReads.com.
• Otohiko Kaga. Riding the East Wind [錨のない船, Ikari no nai fune, 1982]. Translated by Ian Hideo Levy. Tokyo and New York: Kodansha International, 1999.
  [Internet Archive; Amazon.com; GoodReads.com.]
  (This abridged translation of the original is the only other work by Kaga that has been translated into English so far.)
• Japanese literature: Postwar literature (1945–onwards), Wikipedia English.
• 日本の近現代文学史 [History of modern Japanese literature], Wikipedia Japan.

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Translator Information :

• Albert Novick, LinkedIn.

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Wikipedia Articles :

• Postwar Japan.
• 連合国軍占領期後の日本 [Japan after the Allied Occupation].
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• Nemuro, Hokkaido [根室市].
  (Hometown of the character Atsuo Yukimori in Marshland.)
• Kotohira Shrine, 金刀比羅神社, Nemuro.
  Google Maps coordinates. Clicking on the map link for Kotohira Shrine will open a panel on your screen from which you can see photos of the shrine and the area of Nemuro around the shrine.
• 北海道空襲 [Hokkaido air raids], 14-15 July 1945.
• 風蓮湖 [Lake Furen], surrounded by the wetlands referred to in Marshland.
• 羅臼町 [Rausu Town, Hokkaido].
• 流氷なび [Drift Ice Navigation], @ryuhyonavi, X (Twitter).
  (Drift Ice at Rausa was featured in a scene in Marshland. This X account has many photos of the scenery around Rausa.)
• 世界自然遺産のまち『知床羅臼町』 [World Natural Heritage Town "Shiretoko Rausu Town"], @rausutown, X (Twitter).
• 北方地域 [Northern Territories], islands north east of Hokkaido claimed by Japan.
• 北方領土問題 [Northern Territories Issue], a territorial dispute between Japan and the Russian Federation .
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• 1968–1969 Japanese university protests.
• 1968 in Japan: October 21: New Left [日本の新左翼] forces occupy Shinjuku Station for 国際反戦デー [International Anti-War Day].
• 1968年の日本 [Japan in 1968].
• Shinjuku riot [新宿騒乱], 21 October 1968.
• 1969 in Japan [1969年の日本].
• 東大安田講堂事件 [University of Tokyo Yasuda Auditorium Incident], 18-19 January 1969.
• National Foundation Day (Japan), 11 February.

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