Japanese Short Storey Anthology
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Terminal Boredom
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- Written by: Izumi Suzuki
- Narrated by: Cindy Kay
- Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
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At turns nonchalantly hip and charmingly deranged, Suzuki's singular slant on speculative fiction would be echoed in countless later works, from Margaret Atwood and Harumi Murakami, to Black Mirror and Ex Machina. In these darkly playful and punky stories, the fantastical elements are always earthed by the universal pettiness of strife between the sexes, and the gritty reality of life on the lower rungs, whatever planet that ladder might be on.
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Terminal Boredom
- Stories
- Narrated by: Cindy Kay
- Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 2021-04-20
- Language: English
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At turns nonchalantly hip and charmingly deranged, Suzuki's singular slant on speculative fiction would be echoed in countless later works, from Margaret Atwood and Harumi Murakami, to Black Mirror and Ex Machina....
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Before the Coffee Gets Cold: A Toshikazu Kawaguchi Book Set
- Written by: Toshikazu Kawaguchi
- Narrated by: Arina Ii, Kevin Shen
- Length: 18 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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What would you do if you could travel back in time? Discover the internationally bestselling novels of Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s Before the Coffee Gets Cold series, now a worldwide phenomenon and BookTok sensation, in this special new book set. Step inside Tokyo’s whimsical Café Funiculi Funicula and travel back in time with a cast of unforgettable characters.
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Before the Coffee Gets Cold: A Toshikazu Kawaguchi Book Set
- Narrated by: Arina Ii, Kevin Shen
- Series: Before the Coffee Gets Cold Series, Book 1
- Length: 18 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 2023-06-13
- Language: English
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What would you do if you could travel back in time? Discover the internationally bestselling novels of Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s Before the Coffee Gets Cold series, now a worldwide phenomenon and BookTok sensation, in this special new book set....
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Japanese Ghost Stories
- Penguin Classics
- Written by: Lafcadio Hearn
- Narrated by: Eleanor Matsuura
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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In this collection of classic ghost stories from Japan, beautiful princesses turn out to be frogs, paintings come alive, deadly spectral brides haunt the living and a samurai delivers the baby of a Shinto goddess with mystical help. Here are all the phantoms and ghouls of Japanese folklore: 'rokuro-kubi', whose heads separate from their bodies at night; 'jikininki', or flesh-eating goblins; and terrifying faceless 'mujina' who haunt lonely neighbourhoods.
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- By Schultz, L. on 2022-07-26
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Japanese Ghost Stories
- Penguin Classics
- Narrated by: Eleanor Matsuura
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 2019-09-26
- Language: English
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In this collection of classic ghost stories from Japan, beautiful princesses turn out to be frogs, paintings come alive, deadly spectral brides haunt the living and a samurai delivers the baby of a Shinto goddess with mystical help....
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First Person Singular
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- Written by: Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel - translator
- Narrated by: Kotaro Watanabe
- Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins
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From the internationally acclaimed Haruki Murakami comes a mind-bending new collection of short stories, all touching beautifully on love and solitude, childhood and memory...all with a signature Murakami twist. The eight stories in this new book are all told in the first person by a classic Murakami narrator. From memories of youth, meditations on music, and an ardent love of baseball, to dreamlike scenarios and invented jazz albums, together these stories challenge the boundaries between our minds and the exterior world.
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First Person Singular
- Stories
- Narrated by: Kotaro Watanabe
- Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 2021-04-06
- Language: English
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From the internationally acclaimed Haruki Murakami comes a mind-bending new collection of short stories, all touching beautifully on love and solitude, childhood and memory...all with a signature Murakami twist....
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The Mad Kyoto Shoe Swapper and Other Short Stories
- Written by: Rebecca Otowa
- Narrated by: Cindy Kay, David Shih
- Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins
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From the unique standpoint of an American woman who married into a Japanese family and has lived in Japan for more than 30 years, Rebecca Otowa weaves enchanting tales of her adopted home that portray the perspective of both the Japanese and the foreigner on the universal issues that face us all - love, work, marriage, death, and family conflict.
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The Mad Kyoto Shoe Swapper and Other Short Stories
- Narrated by: Cindy Kay, David Shih
- Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 2021-02-23
- Language: English
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From the standpoint of an American woman who married into a Japanese family and has lived in Japan for more than 30 years, Rebecca Otowa weaves enchanting tales of her adopted home that portray the perspective of both the Japanese and the foreigner on the universal issues that face us....
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The Goodbye Cat
- Written by: Hiro Arikawa, Philip Gabriel - translator
- Narrated by: George Blagden
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
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Already a bestseller in Japan, The Goodbye Cat is a collection of simple yet charming, funny, and often very moving tales (tails?) woven by seven wise felines and their humans. Bursting with love and warmth, The Goodbye Cat exquisitely explores the cycle of life and how, in different ways, the steadiness and devotion of a well-loved cat never lets us down. A joyous celebration of the wondrousness of cats and why we choose to share our lives with them.
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The Goodbye Cat
- Narrated by: George Blagden
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 2023-10-10
- Language: English
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In this delightful and touching follow-up to the internationally bestselling Travelling Cat Chronicles, seven felines teach their humans about love, loss, and the art of facing the inevitable—the perfect gift for every cat lover....
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Hit Parade of Tears
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- Written by: Izumi Suzuki
- Narrated by: Cindy Kay
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
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A new collection of stories from the cult author of Terminal Boredom: A philandering husband receives a bestial punishment from a wife with her own secrets to keep; a music lover finds herself in a timeline both familiar and as wrong as can be; idle high school students find adventure in another dimension but aren't all that impressed; a misfit band of space pirates discover a mysterious baby among the stars; Emma, the Bovary-like character from one of Suzuki's stories in Terminal Boredom, lands herself in a bizarre romantic pickle.
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Hit Parade of Tears
- Stories
- Narrated by: Cindy Kay
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 2023-04-25
- Language: English
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Izumi Suzuki had ideas about doing things differently, ideas that paid little attention to the laws of physics, or the laws of the land. In this new collection, her skewed imagination distorts and enhances some of the classic concepts of science fiction and fantasy....
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Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
- Written by: Haruki Murakami
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor, Ellen Archer
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
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The 24 stories that make up Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman generously express the incomparable Haruki Murakami’s mastery of the form. Here are animated crows, a criminal monkey, and an ice man, as well as the dreams that shape us and the things for which we might wish. From the surreal to the mundane, these stories exhibit Murakami’s ability to transform the full range of human experience in ways that are instructive, surprising, and entertaining.
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Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor, Ellen Archer
- Series: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman, Book 1
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 2013-09-03
- Language: English
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The 24 stories that make up Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman generously express the incomparable Haruki Murakami’s mastery of the form....
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The Lonesome Bodybuilder
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- Written by: Yukiko Motoya
- Narrated by: Natalie Naudus, Brian Nishii, Erin Bennett, and others
- Length: 5 hrs and 9 mins
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In these 11 stories, the individuals who lift the curtains of their orderly homes and workplaces are confronted with the bizarre, the grotesque, the fantastic, the alien - and through it, find a way to liberation. The Lonesome Bodybuilder is the English-language debut of one of Japan's most fearlessly inventive young writers.
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The Lonesome Bodybuilder
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- Narrated by: Natalie Naudus, Brian Nishii, Erin Bennett, Richard Powers, Tanya Eby, Kate Mulligan
- Length: 5 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 2018-11-06
- Language: English
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In these 11 stories, the individuals who lift the curtains of their orderly homes and workplaces are confronted with the bizarre, the grotesque, the fantastic, the alien - and through it, find a way to liberation....
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Kwaidan
- Written by: Lafcadio Hearn
- Narrated by: Walter Covell
- Length: 2 hrs and 32 mins
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Based on Japanese literature and foldlore, Kwaidan contains 17 stories. The story of Loichi, the blind biwa player who was called to perform for the dead; of Muso, the journeying priest who encountered a man eating goblin; of the samurai who outwitted the ghost of a dead man. All these plus 14 other spooly tales are included in this collection.
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Kwaidan
- Narrated by: Walter Covell
- Length: 2 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 2007-12-30
- Language: English
- Kwaidan is a collection of weird, ghostly legends and beliefs of old Japan....
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Every Drop Is a Man's Nightmare
- Written by: Megan Kamalei Kakimoto
- Narrated by: Michelle Sekine
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
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Megan Kamalei Kakimoto's wrenching and sensational debut story collection follows a cast of mixed native Hawaiian and Japanese women through a contemporary landscape thick with inherited wisdom and the ghosts of colonization. This is a Hawai'i where unruly sexuality and generational memory overflow the postcard image of paradise and the boundaries of the real, where the superstitions born of the islands take on the weight of truth.
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Every Drop Is a Man's Nightmare
- Narrated by: Michelle Sekine
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 2023-08-29
- Language: English
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From major new storytelling talent Megan Kamalei Kakimoto comes a blazing, bodily, raucous journey through contemporary Hawaiian identity and womanhood....
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Kwaidan
- Stories and Studies of Strange Things
- Written by: Lafcadio Hearn
- Narrated by: Blaise Adams
- Length: 3 hrs and 41 mins
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Patrick Lafcadio Hearn, was an Irish writer known also by the Japanese name Koizumi Yakumo. His book Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things, comprises two parts, the first being the "Kwaidan Proper" and the second, "Insect-Studies", which consists of an essay each on ants, butterflies and mosquitos. According to the author, most of the folk tales and ghost stories in the first part were translated from old Japanese texts. The themes encompass resurrection, sacrifice, magic, and the realm of dreams.
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Kwaidan
- Stories and Studies of Strange Things
- Narrated by: Blaise Adams
- Length: 3 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 2020-02-28
- Language: English
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Patrick Lafcadio Hearn, was an Irish writer known also by the Japanese name Koizumi Yakumo. His book Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things, comprises two parts, the first being the "Kwaidan Proper" and the second, "Insect-Studies"....
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Classic Japanese Fairy Tales, Volume 1
- Mimei Ogawa: The Father of Modern Japanese Fairy Tales
- Written by: Mimei Ogawa
- Narrated by: Masato Ouchida
- Length: 1 hr and 11 mins
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Mimei Ogawa, a prolific author of short stories nearly 100 years ago, is considered to be one of the founding figures of modern Japanese children’s literature. He has also been called the Hans Christian Andersen of Japan because of how his works were influenced by Andersen. This collection contains a fresh, modern translation of one of Mimei Ogawa’s most famous works, "The Mermaid and the Red Candles", as well as several other stories that have never been translated and published in English before.
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Classic Japanese Fairy Tales, Volume 1
- Mimei Ogawa: The Father of Modern Japanese Fairy Tales
- Narrated by: Masato Ouchida
- Series: The Father of Modern Japanese Fairy Tales, Book 1
- Length: 1 hr and 11 mins
- Release date: 2021-10-29
- Language: English
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Mimei Ogawa, a prolific author of short stories nearly 100 years ago, is considered to be one of the founding figures of modern Japanese children’s literature. He has also been called the Hans Christian Andersen of Japan because of how his works were influenced by Andersen....
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In a Grove: Short Literature Series
- Written by: Ryunosuke Akutagawa
- Narrated by: Russell D Jones
- Length: 25 mins
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Originally published in 1922 and translated by Takashi Kojima, this classic short story was the inspiration for Akira Kurosawa's 1950 film Rashomon, about the murder of a samurai. Told from the perspective of multiple witnesses.
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In a Grove: Short Literature Series
- Narrated by: Russell D Jones
- Length: 25 mins
- Release date: 2015-03-16
- Language: English
- Originally published in 1922 and translated by Takashi Kojima, this classic short story was the inspiration for Akira Kurosawa's 1950 film Rashomon, about the murder of a samurai....
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Ворота Расёмон
- Written by: Рюноскэ Акутагава
- Narrated by: Андрей Курилов
- Length: 18 hrs and 4 mins
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В этот сборник вошли как принесшие Акутагаве мировую славу и автоматически ассоциирующиеся с его именем исторические рассказы и новеллы (включая легендарную "В чаще", послужившую основой для сценария бессмертного фильма "Расёмон" Куросавы), так и менее известные западному читателю, но почитающиеся на родине автора еще выше рассказы, действие которых происходит на фоне современной автору реальности Японии начала ХХ века, еще сохраняющей немало черт национального своеобразия, но жадно и стремительно "европеизирующейся".
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Ворота Расёмон
- Narrated by: Андрей Курилов
- Length: 18 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 2024-02-08
- Language: Russian
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В этот сборник вошли как принесшие Акутагаве мировую славу и автоматически ассоциирующиеся с его именем исторические рассказы и новеллы...
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The Japanese Mirror
- Written by: Bruce Coville
- Narrated by: Jesse Navagh
- Length: 39 mins
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Jonathan is attracted to the ornate mirror from the first moment he sees it in the antique shop where he works after school. But there is something wrong with the mirror, something evil - as Jonathan will discover after he accidentally gets a trace of his blood on its surface in this disturbing tale of terror.
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The Japanese Mirror
- Narrated by: Jesse Navagh
- Length: 39 mins
- Release date: 2019-11-01
- Language: English
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Jonathan is attracted to the ornate mirror from the first moment he sees it in the antique shop where he works after school. But there is something wrong with the mirror, something evil....
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The Two Frogs
- A Japanese Fairy Tale
- Written by: Andrew Lang
- Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
- Length: 3 mins
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'The Two Frogs' is the story of two amphibians who live in different cities in Japan. Each desires to see the world, so each sets out on a journey towards the other's home city. When they meet at the top of a mountain, the two frogs make friends and devise a plan to work out whether their journey is worthwhile - with unintended consequences.
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The Two Frogs
- A Japanese Fairy Tale
- Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
- Length: 3 mins
- Release date: 2018-08-21
- Language: English
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'The Two Frogs' is the story of two amphibians who live in different cities in Japan. Each desires to see the world, so each sets out on a journey towards the other's home city....
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Tales for the Train
- Written by: J. John le Grange
- Narrated by: J. John le Grange
- Length: 3 hrs and 14 mins
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Her name is Tamika and her story is like broken glass. Shards of glass can easily penetrate skin and tissue. Sex, lust, love, and hatred...a small town in Japan holds these secrets. An inspector, a mother, a father, a client, and a body that fell from nowhere...Sometimes there is no logic to life. Nine stories - or one tale?
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Tales for the Train
- Narrated by: J. John le Grange
- Length: 3 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 2017-02-16
- Language: English
- Her name is Tamika and her story is like broken glass. Shards of glass can easily penetrate skin and tissue. Sex, lust, love, and hatred...a small town in Japan holds these secrets....
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Dust on the Mountain
- Written by: Ruskin Bond
- Narrated by: Dev J. Haldar
- Length: 34 mins
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Bisnu finds how dangerous and lonely life can be for a boy who has to leave his home to earn money for his family. As he sets to work on the limestone quarries with the choking dust enveloping the beautiful mountain air, he longs for home more than ever.
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Dust on the Mountain
- Narrated by: Dev J. Haldar
- Length: 34 mins
- Release date: 2019-01-11
- Language: English
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Bisnu finds how dangerous and lonely life can be for a boy who has to leave his home to earn money for his family. As he sets to work on the limestone quarries with the choking dust enveloping the beautiful mountain air, he longs for home more than ever....
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