May GLLI Blog Series: Japan in Translation, No. 8 Almost every week, a dozen or more volumes of Japanese comics–also commonly known as manga–are released in print in translation for the North American market while even more are made available digitally on a variety of platforms. Over the last decade or so, collections of comics … Continue reading Librarian Ash Brown on Manga in Translation
May GLLI Blog Series: Japan in Translation, No. 7 (part 2) Editor's Note: This is the second part in a two-part series about the recent publication of. Ryōma! The Life of Sakamoto Ryōma: Japanese Swordsman and Visionary. Ryōma! is the first English translation of Shiba Ryōtarō’s legendary best-seller Ryōma ga yuku, which has sold more than 24 million … Continue reading Translator Roundtable on Shiba Ryōtaro’s Ryōma!, part 2
May GLLI Blog Series: Japan in Translation, No. 6 (part 1) Phyllis Birnbaum: I am very happy to announce the publication of Volume I of Ryōma! The Life of Sakamoto Ryōma: Japanese Swordsman and Visionary. This is the first English translation of Shiba Ryōtarō’s legendary best-seller Ryōma ga yuku, which has sold more than 24 … Continue reading Translator Roundtable on Shiba Ryōtarō’s Ryōma!, part 1
May GLLI Blog Series: Japan in Translation, No. 5 (part 2) For part 1 in this two-part piece, see May 4: Eve Kushner on kanji’s punning potential (Japan-in-Translation, No. 4) Mishima's Mischief Japanese writers choose whether to render terms in kanji (also known as Chinese characters because they came from China), or in its two phonetic … Continue reading Mishima’s Mischief — Eve Kushner on Kanji and Translation, part 2
May GLLI Blog Series: Japan in Translation, No. 4 (part 1) With my project Joy o' Kanji, I'm writing one essay about each of the 2,136 Joyo kanji, the characters the Japanese use in daily life. In the essays I explore all facets of a kanji, including its readings, the evolution of its shape and … Continue reading PUN POTENTIAL — Eve Kushner on Kanji and Translation, part 1
May GLLI Blog Series: Japan in Translation, No. 3 Editor's update: A new source of interesting links, history and news about Japanese literature and Japanese literature-in-translation can be found at redcircleauthors.com. See, in particular, its "factbook," which it describes as a "Dynamic Compendium of Interesting Japanese Literary and Publishing Facts." Red Circle calls itself a hybrid … Continue reading NOTES ON MEMORABLE TRANSLATIONS — BY TRANSLATOR DEBORAH IWABUCHI
May GLLI Blog Series: Japan in Translation, No. 2 Editor's note: Even in 2018, many conversations about Japan begin by mentioning the nation's homogeneity before going on to discuss a group or individual who appears to be an exception. Japan is filled with such “exceptions,” however, and even the tiny percentage of Japanese fiction published … Continue reading OUTSIDER STORIES IN CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE FICTION — by Kathryn Hemmann
May GLLI Blog Series: Japan in Translation, No. 1 Editor's note: Today begins a month-long series of posts about Japanese literature in translation. Here in the United States it is Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month, and in Japan (through this weekend, anyway), it is Golden Week, the longest vacation period of the year for many Japanese workers. … Continue reading THE MIRROR OF HIS WORKS — Roger Pulvers on Ishikawa Takuboku
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