Six Platinum Stars/SIX WHITE VENUS by Sakunosuke Oda

六白金星 by Sakunosuke Oda

The Setting Sun by Osamu Dazai

The post-war period in Japan was one of immense social change as Japanese society adjusted to the shock of defeat and to the occupation of Japan by American forces and their allies. Osamu Dazai's The Setting Sun takes this milieu as its background to tell the story of the decline of a minor aristocratic family. The st...

The Moon over the Mountain by Nakajima Atsushi

Ancient China is illustriously brought to life in these folk tales, legends, and stories of historical figures that routinely rank alongside such Japanese literary classics as "Rashomon" by Ryunosuke Akutagawa and Kokoro by Natsume Soseki. When they first appeared in Japanese periodicals in 1942 and 1943, they sparked...

japanese tales of mystery and imagination by edogawa rampo

Collected in this chilling volume are some of the famous Japanese mystery writer Edogawa Rampo's best stories-bizarre and blood-curdling expeditions into the fantastic, the perverse, and the strange, in a marvelous homage to Rampo's literary 'mentor', Edgar Allan Poe.