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新潮社
is a publisher founded in 1896 in Japan and headquartered in , Shinjuku, Tokyo, Shinjuku, Tokyo. Shinchosha is one of the sponsors of the Japan Fantasy Novel Award. Books * Haruki Murakami: ''Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World'' (1985), ''Uten Enten'' (1990), ''The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle'' (1997), ''After the quake'' (2000), ''1Q84'' (2009–2010), ''The City and Its Uncertain Walls'' (2023) * Alex Kerr (Japanologist), Alex Kerr: ''Lost Japan'' (1993) Book series Magazines Weekly * – since 1956 * – manga, discontinued in 2010 * ''Focus (Japanese magazine), Focus'' – suspended Monthly * – Literary magazine since 1904 * * * ''nicola (magazine), nicola'' * (suspended) * * * * ''Engine (magazine), ENGINE'' – Automobile magazine, since 2000 * ''Foresight (magazine), Foresight'' – Japanese edition discontinued in 2010 * - manga, since 2011 Web magazine * ''Foresight (magazine), Foresight'' – Japanese edition since 2010 * ''Daily Shinchō'' � ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japan
Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea in the south. The Japanese archipelago consists of four major islands—Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu—and List of islands of Japan, thousands of smaller islands, covering . Japan has a population of over 123 million as of 2025, making it the List of countries and dependencies by population, eleventh-most populous country. The capital of Japan and List of cities in Japan, its largest city is Tokyo; the Greater Tokyo Area is the List of largest cities, largest metropolitan area in the world, with more than 37 million inhabitants as of 2024. Japan is divided into 47 Prefectures of Japan, administrative prefectures and List of regions of Japan, eight traditional regions. About three-quarters of Geography of Japan, the countr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shabake
is a Japanese historical fantasy novel series written by Megumi Hatanaka with illustrations by Yū Shibata. It began publication by Shinchosha in December 2001, with 23 volumes being released as of July 2024. A manga adaptation illustrated by Mimori was serialized in Shinchosha's '' Monthly Comic Bunch'' magazine from January 2017 to March 2023. A 3-minute original net animation (ONA) adaptation produced by Shuka was released in July 2021. An anime television series adaptation produced by Bandai Namco Pictures is set to premiere in 2025. Characters ; : ; : ; : ; : ; : Media Novels Manga A manga adaptation illustrated by Mimori was serialized in Shinchosha's '' Monthly Comic Bunch'' magazine from January 21, 2017, to March 20, 2023. The manga's chapters were collected into four ''tankōbon'' volumes released from April 9, 2018, to June 8, 2023. Anime A 3-minute original net animation (ONA) adaptation was released on July 19, 2021, to cele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lost Japan
is a 1993 book written by American Japonologist Alex Kerr. Background The book deals with Kerr's life in Japan and on aspects of Japanese culture by which he was fascinated. The text is a collection of personal essays in which he suggests that the current popularity of ikebana, Kabuki, and other famous Japanese arts and crafts represents the final efflorescence of a moribund culture. He wrote it in Japanese, and it was translated into English with the help of Bodhi Fishman and published as ''Lost Japan'' in 1996. The original Japanese version was published by Shinchosha in 1993; a paperback version has been published since 2000 by The Asahi Shimbun Company. The English translation was first published by Lonely Planet in 1996; in 2015 the book was reissued by Penguin UK with a new preface written by Alex. Translations have also been published in Traditional and Simplified Chinese characters, Italian, Polish, Russian, and Spanish. Reception The book won the Shincho Gakugei lite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Kerr (Japanologist)
Alex Kerr (born June 16, 1952) is an American writer and Japanologist. Biography Originally from the Bethesda area in Montgomery County, Maryland, Kerr's father, a naval officer, was posted in Yokohama from 1964 to 1966. Kerr returned to the states and studied Japanese Studies at Yale University. After studying Chinese Studies at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, Kerr moved back to Japan full-time in 1977. He lived in Kameoka, near Kyoto, working with the Oomoto Foundation, a Shintō organisation devoted to the practise and teaching of traditional Japanese arts. An expert on Japanese culture and art, he frequently writes and lectures in Japanese. Through his experiences in Japan, as related in his books, he has become an avid art collector and patron of Japan's traditional theatre and other arts. He also worked in business, working for Trammell Crow in the 1980s. Kerr currently has several residences. He lives in Bangkok, Thailand for half of the year, and Kyoto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The City And Its Uncertain Walls
is a novel written by Japanese writer Haruki Murakami that was released on April 13, 2023. Philip Gabriel's English translation was published on November 19, 2024 in Britain and United States. The novel shares its title with an earlier short story of the same name, which was published in the September 1980 issue of '' Bungakukai''. Background Murakami started writing the book in January 2020 while spending all time in his home during the COVID-19 pandemic, and completed it in December 2022. Initially his intention was to rewrite his 1980 short story with the same title to improve it, but the story got expanded to the 672 page novel, with the material from the short story forming its first chapter. Before its publication, Shinchosha Publishing announced that the plot involves "a story that had long been sealed." The publisher also shared a teaser that includes the text: "Must go to the city. No matter what happens. A locked up 'story' starts to move quietly as if 'old dreams' ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1Q84
is a novel written by Japanese writer Haruki Murakami, first published in three volumes in Japan in 2009–2010. It covers a fictionalized year of 1984 in parallel with a "real" one. The novel is a story of how a woman named Aomame begins to notice strange changes occurring in the world. She is quickly caught up in a plot involving Sakigake, a religious cult, and her childhood love, Tengo, and embarks on a journey to discover what is "real". The novel's first printing sold out on the day it was released and sales reached a million within a month. The English-language edition of all three volumes, with the first two volumes translated by Jay Rubin and the third by Philip Gabriel, was released in North America and the United Kingdom on October 25, 2011. An excerpt from the novel appeared in the September 5, 2011 issue of ''The New Yorker'' magazine as "Town of Cats". The first chapter of ''1Q84'' had also been read as an excerpt in the Selected Shorts series at Symphony Spac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
is a novel published in 1994–1995 by Japanese author Haruki Murakami. The American translation and its British adaptation, dubbed the "only official translations" ( English), are by Jay Rubin and were first published in 1997. For this novel, Murakami received the Yomiuri Literary Award, which was awarded to him by one of his harshest former critics, Kenzaburō Ōe. Publication history The original Japanese edition was released in three parts, which make up the three "books" of the single volume English language version. # # # In English translation, two chapters were originally published in ''The New Yorker'' under the titles "The Zoo Attack" on July 31, 1995, and "Another Way to Die" on January 20, 1997. A slightly different version of the first chapter translated by Alfred Birnbaum was published in the collection '' The Elephant Vanishes'' under the title "The Wind-up Bird and Tuesday's Women". In addition, the character name Noboru Wataya appears in the short stor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uten Enten
is a ''road essay'' by Japanese author Haruki Murakami, about his travels in Greece and Turkey. The essays were first published in Japanese in 1990 by shinchosha is a publisher founded in 1896 in Japan and headquartered in , Shinjuku, Tokyo. Shinchosha is one of the sponsors of the Japan Fantasy Novel Award. Books * Haruki Murakami: '' Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World'' (1985), '' Ute ... as two separate volumes, the first volume covering his travels in Greece, and the other his travels in Turkey. A popular edition collecting both volumes was published in 1991. In 2008 a renewal edition was published with some new photographs. Contents Additional information Oldest edition *Subtitle: In the Holy Mountain, on the Turkish road *Photo: Eizō Matsumura, Art direction: Sakagawa, Design: Maeda, Map: Katō *Aug 28. 1990, Hardcover (21 cm), 84 page (book1), 108 page (book 2), **Box set book 1: Greece - In the Holy Mountain (ギリシャ編 アトス―神� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hard-Boiled Wonderland And The End Of The World
is a 1985 novel by Japanese author Haruki Murakami. It was awarded the Tanizaki Prize in 1985. The English translation by Alfred Birnbaum was released in 1991. A new translation by Jay Rubin was released December 2024. A strange and dreamlike novel, its chapters alternate between two narratives—"Hard-Boiled Wonderland" (the cyberpunk, science fiction part) and "The End of the World" (the surreal, virtual fantasy part). Plot summary The story is split between parallel narratives. The odd-numbered chapters take place in "Hard-Boiled Wonderland", although that phrase is not used anywhere in the text, only in page headers. The narrator is a , a human data processor and encryption system who has been trained to use his subconscious as an encryption key. The Calcutecs work for the quasi-governmental System, as opposed to the criminal who work for the Factory and who are generally fallen Calcutecs. The relationship between the two groups is simple: the System protects data while t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
