Juliet Winters Carpenter (Translator)

Juliet Winters Carpenter is a professor of English literature at Doshisha Women’s College of Liberal Arts and one of the foremost translators of Japanese literature working today. Her translations include Kobo Abe’s “Beyond the Curve,” Fumiko Enchi’s “Masks,” Ryotaro Shiba’s “The Last Shogun,” Jun’ichi Watanabe’s “A Lost Paradise,” and Machi Tawara’s “Salad Anniversary.”

Winner of Japan’s prestigious Yomiuri Literature Prize, Minae Mizumura examines Japan’s westernization and the emergence of a middle class.

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One of the best-selling novels ever in Japan.

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“A subtle examination of universal female behavior.” —People

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A vanishing way of life in a small lakeside town in Japan is recorded in richly detailed oral stories from people who spent their lives working on or around Lake Kasumigaura.

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NEW RELEASE! The life story of Sakamoto Ryōma, a samurai and one of the great figures in Japanese history, has sold more than 24 million copies in Japan since its original publication in 1966

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The bizarrely erotic and comic adventures of a man searching for his missing wife in a mysteriously vast underground hospital.

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Naoki Prize-winner Shion Miura’s Great Passage received the Booksellers Award in Japan in 2012 and was developed into a major motion picture.

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