Dokusha Book Club’s Substack
Dokusha Book ClubDokusha in Japanese means a reader. We're a community of dokushas, or readers, interested in Japanese literature, art, cinema, food, basically everything Japanese.
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| Issues | 23 | Founded | 3 years ago | Last Issue | 4 months ago |
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Interview with Satoshi Yagisawa | “My books are more popular in India than in Japan”
How do you feel about the immense popularity of your books in India?
When I started writing the books, I didn’t think they would be this popular, especially in India. But even before I landed here, I learned from my editor and my team that...
Interview with Kumi Kimura: "Authors write about isolation because it is close to them and it’s very accessible"
Did you write the novel during the pandemic or did you approach it retrospectively?
I had been wanting to write this book even before the pandemic and it was more about fitting a male character and a female character together in one settin...
Interview | “Queerness often shows up in my writing”: Akira Otani
What inspired you to write The Night of Baba Yaga, a novel where two women find each other in the yakuza underworld?
The initial spark was a desire to capture action using prose. There were already plenty of stories of violent men running...
Visible, invisible women
It was four days now that my daughter hadn’t come home. She’d call every evening, though, either out of fear I’d report her as a runaway or simply out of guilt, to casually tell me, “I’m staying at a friend’s house tonight, okay?” But tonig...
Interview with Yuki Tejima: “Tokyo is a book lover’s heaven; I love how vibrant its literary scene is”
Which was the first Japanese book that you translated and how was the experience like?
The first Japanese book I translated was Then Why Ask Me to Come? by Risa Wataya, an author I am delighted to reintroduce to English readers in 2025, as...
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