There is a world of difference between reading Japanese that has been specially concocted for students and reading real Japanese - that is, Japanese written for

A dual-language edition of Chinese stories—many appearing in English for the first time This new volume of eight short stories offers students at all levels t

This fantastically varied and exciting collection celebrates the great Japanese short story, from its modern origins in the nineteenth century to the remarkable

This is a graded reader for Japanese literature. There are 7 stories, 4 by Soseki and 3 by Akutagawa, representing 3 different reading levels. In each case the

Beginning with the first writings to assimilate and rework Western literary traditions, through the flourishing of the short story genre in the cosmopolitan atm