Chin Music Press is a

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company known for its high-quality editions.

History

The Press was founded in Seattle in 2002 by Bruce Rutledge and Yuko Enomoto. They began by publishing books on contemporary Japan, but have expanded to include books on

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, China, and Korea. After being located in various locations around Seattle for many years, in 2014 the company opened a store in Seattle's

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Notable publications

* Yurei: The Japanese Ghost, by

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*The Sun Gods, by

Jay Rubin Jay Rubin (born 1941) is an American translator, writer, scholar and Japanologist. He is one of the main translators of the works of the Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami into English. He has also written a guide to Japanese, ''Making Sense of Jap ...

* Shiro: Wit, Wisdom & Recipes from a Sushi Pioneer, by Shiro Kashiba * ''Are You an Echo? The Lost Poetry of Misuzu Kaneko''.

References

External links

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