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FUMINORI NAKAMURA

Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
May 28, 2023
The curious case of Fuminori Nakamura’s genre misalignment
Little do English-language readers know, the author of ‘The Rope Artist’ and other critically acclaimed books writes on much more than crime.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Jan 23, 2022
Fuminori Nakamura: ‘The darkness of fiction can be healing’
The author delves deep into the mind of a murderer and the monstrous depths of humanity in his complex thriller “My Annihilation,” his latest novel to be translated into English.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Jan 8, 2022
Exciting translations and books about Japan to bookmark for 2022
From Yoko Tawada’s “Scattered All Over the Earth” to Sayaka Murata’s “Life Ceremony,” this year’s new releases are sure to brighten up your 2022.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Nov 7, 2018
‘The Gun’: A blast of stylish nihilism
Chekhov’s principle about how you can’t introduce a gun in the first act of a story without using it later on might also apply to Toru (Nijiro Murakami).
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books / RECENTLY PUBLISHED BOOKS ABOUT JAPAN
May 26, 2018
‘Cult X’: The Fuminori Nakamura novel we’ve been waiting for
‘Cult X’ is a fast-paced thriller that shows off Nakamura’s ability to explore the lives of those on the fringes of Japanese society at its best.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Jul 29, 2017
‘The Boy in the Earth’: A short, sharp shock of a novella
“The Boy in the Earth” was Fuminori Nakamura’s fifth book and it won him the Akutagawa Prize in 2005. It’s a short sharp shock of a novella and Allison Markin Powell’s powerful recent translation finally brings its creeping dread alive for English readers.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Aug 3, 2016
Momoi is on fire in her new indie film ‘Hee’
In her four-decade acting career Kaori Momoi has always been a free-spirited stand-out, indifferent to convention. But beneath her easygoing attitude and signature drawling delivery (which used to make me wonder what she had been ingesting before the cameras started rolling) was a thorough professionalism...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Nov 1, 2014
Fuminori writes noir, but not as we know it
Fuminori Nakamura has won many of the major literary prizes in Japan and is quickly making the same kind of impact in the English-speaking world. His third novel to be translated into English, “Last Winter, We Parted,” is out now. It’s a tense, layered story centered around a young writer commissioned...
Man arrested over operation of rogue cellular base station in Tokyo
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Government betting on language app powered by anime and AI
Japan plans to develop an AI-powered language-learning app that lets overseas anime and manga fans practice Japanese through conversations with popular characters.
Man arrested over theft of watch that was returned days later to Tokyo mall
A 30-year-old man who is believed to have stolen a luxury wristwatch in Tokyo last month reportedly told police he was the one who had sent it back with a handwritten apology.
Japan not immune to public backlash against data centers, experts say
An apartment resident displays a model of a data center currently in development next door in Inzai, Chiba Prefecture, in May.
Jensen Huang’s woes evoke sympathy and disbelief in his birthplace Taiwan
Hsiao Kui-yu, 68, owner of Yuchan Candied Fruit, stands in front of photographs of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang displayed at the shop, which Huang frequently visits during trips to Taiwan, in Taipei on Tuesday.
‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ makes monster debut at the box office
Takashi Yamazaki’s “Godzilla Minus Zero” marked the highest single-day box-office gross for a live-action film in Japan with ?910 million on its opening day.
A toast to Naohiko Noguchi, sake’s first living national treasure
As a teenager, Naohiko Noguchi did not intend to spend his life as a sake brewer, but he has since become a paragon of the industry.
Few signs of thaw in Japan-China relations one year after Takaichi’s Taiwan remarks
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Mariko Mori predicted the future. She’ll do it again.
Artist Mariko Mori is currently working to bring the translucent human-sized “Peace Crystal” sculpture to a cave in Ethiopia. It is part of her foundation’s goal to place a permanent sculpture on each of the planet’s six habitable continents.
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The new remake of 1998's "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time" manages to somehow improve on one of the greatest games ever.

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