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‘The Ten Loves of Nishino’: Ten tales to chronicle the growing sadness of an aging Casanova

By Nicolas Gattig
Contributing Writer

Jul 13, 2019

“I was surprised that men like Nishino existed in this world, the type of man who could slip so smoothly into a woman’s sensibility.”

The Ten Loves of Nishino, by Hiromi Kawakami, Translated by Allison Markin Powell.240 pagesEUROPA EDITIONS, Fiction.

Thus speaks the married Sayuri in “The Ten Loves of Nishino,” a new collection of stories by Hiromi Kawakami, one of Japan’s most popular writers and a rising star in the West after “The Nakano Thrift Shop” and “Strange Weather in Tokyo,” both published in English in 2017.

Amid the heat and humidity in Japan, a good night’s sleep is growing increasingly elusive without the heavy use of air conditioning.

Summer has arrived in Japan and so have hot sleepless nights

By Tomoko Otake

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

For many people, utility poles and power lines have become such a familiar part of Japan’s landscape that they often go unnoticed.

Why Japan’s utility poles won’t be disappearing anytime soon

By Alex K.T. Martin

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