After seeing her husband off to work, the young author identified only as Yoshiko sets off to read the large collection of letters she received from other young authors. These are often letters containing samples of their work for critique. One large envelope contains a letter. The letter-writer does not provide his name. The letter is a confession of crimes. The letter-writer has no family or friends, and claims to be "ugly beyond description". He is a chair maker and loves his work and all the chairs he creates, even going so far as to claim some sort of intangible connection to his work.
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Rei Kiriyama is a 17-years-old shogi (Japanese chess) player. He debuted as a professional shogi pla...
Murakawa, an aging Tokyo yakuza tiring of gangster life, is sent by his boss to Okinawa along with a...
There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by...
A family of four are the sole inhabitants of a small island, where they struggle each day to irrigat...
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Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for ...
Anzukko (Little Peach) is the daughter of a successful writer. She turns down each one of her suitor...
In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to k...
A true-story account of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing ...
Two New York cops get involved in a gang war between members of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia. They...
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A shy high schooler in Kyoto meets a man claiming to be his future self, who tells him he’s hacked i...
It is the early 1930s and the command of the Japanese Imperial Navy determines to construct the worl...
A passionate telling of the story of Sada Abe, a woman whose affair with her master led to an obsess...
Okoma, a witty young woman working as a conductor in an old, rickety bus in Kōfu, Yamanashi (rural J...
After finding out that her husband, Rudi, has a fatal illness, Trudi Angermeier arranges a trip to B...
Journalists Ichiro Sakai and Junko cover the wreckage of a typhoon when an enormous egg is found and...