Read Real Japanese Fiction: Short Stories by Contemporary Writers

MICHAEL EMMERICH graduated from Princeton University. After completing research in Japanese literature studies at Ritsumeikan University in Tokyo, he went on to earn a Ph.D. in Japanese literature from Columbia University. He is the highly acclaimed translator of Nobel laureate Yasunari Kawabata’s First Snow on Fuji; Banana Yoshimoto’s Asleep, Goodbye Tsugumi and Hardboiled & Hard Luck; Genichiro Takahashi’s Sayonara Gangsters; Mari Akasaka’s Vibrator; and Taichi Yamada’s In Search of a Distant Voice.