Back when general stores were more common than they are today, NAMIYA Yลซji was the owner of one that also served as a letterbox for people seeking anonymous advice on all sorts of matters. Those times are long gone, but when three delinquents take shelter in the abandoned store, they discover connections to the past in the form of letters that would impact all their lives.
Don't be fooled by the English title - this too is a story in Japanese: A retelling of Edogawa Ranpo's ใไบบ้ๆค ๅญใin simple Japanese, providing several methods of support for first-time readers.
Yoshiki and Hikaru are both among the only children of their village in the mountains and grew up close. So it's unsurprising that it's only Yoshiki who notices that Hikaru hasn't been the same since he got lost in the woods last summer. The real Hikaru is dead and something has replaced him.
Five years after the earth quake and tsunami of 11 March 2011, Yui Reiko welcomes a customer to her little barbershop who was out near the sea on that day. As Reiko cuts her hair, the customer tells her story.
Mii-chan's Mom is very busy today, but they don't have any milk left in the fridge. Someone needs to go buy it... Luckily, Mii-chan is old enough to help - it's time for her first errand alone.
In 2023, I started working full time and thus had less time to read compared to 2022. In addition, I also started preparing for the JLPT N1 and tried to read novels in Japanese that would challenge my reading comprehension accordingly as well. In this post, I'll be sharing my personal highlights of Japanese book… Continue reading Japanese Novels of 2023: My Highlights
A soul enters the afterlife, where it is told that it has no further to go from there. Whoever this soul was, it was responsible for something bad in their previous life and thus won't be reborn. But fortunately, the soul is given a second chance by being sent back to earth once more to continue to live the life of Kobayashi Makoto, who has just died by suicide.
Because of their self-contained plot and, of course, their brevity, short stories are very popular with language learners โ and rightly so. There are several approaches that aim at introducing intermediate and advanced learners to Japanese short stories of which I will highlight three and recommend matching short story collections for each.
Mayu likes to read romance and to draw manga. Just like the protagonists in her favourite romance shลjล manga, she would like to have a boyfriend (ใใใ). So she just starts drawing him.
Due to an incident in her childhood, Hinako is living a secluded life in a harbour town and often struggles with her will to live. The ocean she sees every day has been both threatening and eerily fascinating for her ever since until Shiori emerges from its depths to protect and eventually eat her.
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