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Hakata Station Maruzen has my translation on the shelf!
#Translation #JapaneseLit #Books
A row of books by Yokomizo Seishi, including The Devil's Flute Murders, which I translated.
October 22, 2024 at 8:31 AM
theotheralice.bsky.social
the windchime silent
but the clock ticking
ah, the heat

✍️ Yokoi Yayū
🖼️ Toyohara Kunichika, block print

#BookWormSat #JapaneseLit #haiku
Clock showing 5:15 above unhappy looking man.
July 25, 2026 at 9:35 AM
theotheralice.bsky.social
rising winds
rock and roll
gauzelike, white bush clover

✍️ Yuzuru Miura
🖼️ woodblock print, Meiji era artist, Bush Clover and Moon

#BookWormSat #JapaneseLit #haiku
Bush clover
July 25, 2026 at 9:25 AM
theotheralice.bsky.social
the mountain
shedding blossoms
and swallowing clouds

✍️ Yosa Buson
🖼️ six-panel folding screen, also Yosa Buson (detail)

#BookWormSat #JapaneseLit #haiku
In brown/beige/grey/black tones, a landscape of mountains in clouds, and some trees and houses in a valley.
July 25, 2026 at 9:02 AM
theotheralice.bsky.social
the sleet falls
as if coming through the bottom
of loneliness

✍️ Naitō Jōsō
🖼️ Utagawa Hiroshige, Snow falling...

#BookWormSat #JapaneseLit #haiku
Snow falling through a dark blue night sky on a white landscape of uniform small houses and scraggy conifers. Hills in the background, steep slope on the left.
July 25, 2026 at 10:02 AM
worder.bsky.social
Wow - 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 translated into English? This is the must-est of must-reads!!!
#JapaneseLit
yenpress.com Yen Press @yenpress.com · Apr 18
NEW NOVEL ANNOUNCEMENT: Lila and the Winds of War

Lila is an orphan who lives with an immortal being known as the Count after losing her parents in the Great War. After witnessing the tragedies occurring across Europe, she resolves to use the Count’s powers to protect her homeland.
April 23, 2025 at 6:28 PM
jimrion.com
Finally, only a month and change after it hit shelves, I get (some of) my comp copies of Strange Pictures! So shiny! So having-my-name-on-the-cover!
#StrangePictures #Books #Uketsu #JapaneseLit
A stack of books. They're all hardback copies of Strange Pictures by Uketsu. Translated by Jim Rion.
February 25, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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I'll be talking online about how I ended up becoming a "literary translator" and hopefully people will find it amusing, at least, if not helpful. April 18th! Free for JAT members, ¥500 for students, ¥2,000 for others.
#Xl8 #Translation #JapaneseLit
JATBOOK Webinar: A Strange Turn of Events: Lessons from an accidental literary translator | Japan Association of Translators
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March 1, 2026 at 7:30 AM
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A look back on translating Strange Houses, with a bit of a spoiler discussion of one big issue.
#Uketsu #StrangeHouses #JapaneseLit #StrangePictures #Books
Translating Strange Houses
Jim goes on a somewhat spoilery journey looking back on an issue encountered in translating Strange Houses by Uketsu, which ended up making a major difference on the book.
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September 30, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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A passing word in a translation leads Jim on a rabbit hole into Showa era festival toys and inspires thoughts about choice in translation.
#Translation #JapaneseLit #TheNohMaskMurder #Books
Exploring Choice in Translation – A Case Study
A passing word in a translation leads Jim on a rabbit hole into Showa era festival toys and inspires thoughts about choice in translation.
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July 24, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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Coming up on the home stretch of the third novel translation of this year, and good lord this ending is bleak. Nihilistically dark, like. It's hard to keep going, almost.
#Translation #JapaneseLit
October 8, 2024 at 3:22 AM
karensime.bsky.social
I picked the Christmas Eve book for @lorrainesimeart.bsky.social and myself this year. Looking forward to it. #christmaseve #books #reading #reader #readersofbluesky #japaneselit #yokotawada #thelastchildrenoftokyo #christmasevebooks
December 24, 2024 at 7:25 PM
jimrion.com
Thanks for having me on to talk!
#Uketsu #JapaneseLit #Translation #Books
March 7, 2026 at 2:43 AM
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This Japan Times article about Uketsu has a bit of me in it, too!
#Uketsu #StrangePictures #Translation #JapaneseLit

www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025...
'Uketsu': The internet phantom haunting Japan's bestseller lists
Anonymous author and YouTuber 'Uketsu' deals in a quiet horror that has delighted millions of readers.
www.japantimes.co.jp
February 7, 2025 at 11:59 AM
darthprez.bsky.social
After years of waiting, I finally have my hands on Sayaka Murata’s new book, “Vanishing World”.

It is, as expected, weird. :)

#booksky #books #japaneselit
April 19, 2025 at 8:17 PM
I love the five gentle, heartwarming tales in Kenji Ueda's Notes from the Ginza Shihodo Stationery Shop, as well as the idea of the shop itself, meticulously and prodigiously stocked as it is.
#booksky #JapaneseLit #KenjiUeda #NotesfromtheGinzaShihodoStationeryShop

www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
August 15, 2026 at 3:59 AM
jimrion.com
I am officially past the halfway point for my third (mystery/crime) novel translation of 2024.
Deadline is still over three months away, so I'm ahead of schedule.
Go me!
#Translation #Books #JapaneseLit
August 20, 2024 at 1:27 AM
ratemeow.bsky.social
May You Have Delicious Meals | Junko Takase, Morgan Giles (trans.) | 2022 | 134 pages

infuriating, not the typical feel-good slice-of-life japanese book.

🔗 kuchulogue.notion.site/May-You-Have...

#booksky #bibliosky #japaneselit #readingcommunity
May 24, 2026 at 4:18 AM