Japanese Short Fiction

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    • An Introduction to Japanese Literature for Beginners
    • By: Yukiko Stationary
    • Narrated by: Eguchi Tatsuya
    • Length: 1 hr and 23 mins
    • Release date: 04-05-2023
    • Language: English
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    • Discover Japanese classics! This book contains four different short stories to introduce beginners to Japanese literature....

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    • 10 Captivating Short Stories to Learn Japanese & Grow Your Vocabulary the Fun Way! (Intermediate Japanese Stories, Book 1)
    • By: Lingo Mastery
    • Narrated by: Denis Bates, Rieah Masubuchi
    • Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 25-05-2021
    • Language: English
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    • Are you on your way towards learning Japanese and need a new challenge? We’re constantly trying to improve and master new skills, and the Japanese language is no exception....

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    • Penguin Classics
    • By: Lafcadio Hearn
    • Narrated by: Eleanor Matsuura
    • Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 26-09-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • 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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    • Stories
    • By: Izumi Suzuki
    • Narrated by: Cindy Kay
    • Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 20-04-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • 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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    • By: Lafcadio Hearn
    • Narrated by: Walter Covell
    • Length: 2 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 30-12-2007
    • Language: English
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    • Kwaidan is a collection of weird, ghostly legends and beliefs of old Japan....

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    • Stories and Studies of Strange Things
    • By: Lafcadio Hearn
    • Narrated by: Blaise Adams
    • Length: 3 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 28-02-2020
    • 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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    • By: Ryunosuke Akutagawa
    • Narrated by: Russell D Jones
    • Length: 25 mins
    • Release date: 16-03-2015
    • Language: English
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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....

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    • A Japanese Fairy Tale
    • By: Andrew Lang
    • Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
    • Length: 3 mins
    • Release date: 21-08-2018
    • 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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    • By: 桜木 紫乃
    • Narrated by: 白妙 あゆみ
    • Length: 3 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 22-11-2024
    • Language: Japanese
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    • 岐路に立ち、惑う人々に贈る 喪失と再生の記憶。この物語は、あなたの明日をやさしく照らす――絵本作家として活躍する高城好子はかつて美弥子の継母だった。

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    • Stories
    • By: Izumi Suzuki
    • Narrated by: Cindy Kay
    • Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 25-04-2023
    • 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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    • By: Rebecca Otowa
    • Narrated by: Cindy Kay, David Shih
    • Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 23-02-2021
    • 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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    • By: كوتا كاريا
    • Narrated by: هبة بيشاني
    • Length: 8 hrs
    • Release date: 14-11-2024
    • Language: Arabic
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    • هل تخيلت مرةً أن تستمع إلى جدّة يابانية تروي القصص الشعبية والموروثة هناك؟! هذا الكتاب سيمنحك فرصةً ذهبية فهو مجموعة من قصص أيام زمان اليابانية الموجهة في معظمها للأطفال لكنها لا تموت في نفس الكبار أيضًا.

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    • Mimei Ogawa: The Father of Modern Japanese Fairy Tales
    • By: Mimei Ogawa
    • Narrated by: Masato Ouchida
    • Series: The Father of Modern Japanese Fairy Tales, Book 1
    • Length: 1 hr and 11 mins
    • Release date: 29-10-2021
    • 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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    • By: 垣谷 美雨
    • Narrated by: 柚木 尚子
    • Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 15-09-2023
    • Language: Japanese
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    • 人生はあっという間と言うけれど、走馬灯に映し出される色とりどりの絵のごとく、たくさんの喜怒哀楽があり、これまで生きてきた年月は、実は長いのだと、このエッセイは教えてくれる。

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    • Singer, Songwriter and Author from Kyoto, Japan (Hidemi's Short Books, Volume 1)
    • By: Hidemi Woods
    • Narrated by: Hidemi Woods
    • Series: Hidemi's Short Books
    • Length: 45 mins
    • Release date: 20-08-2020
    • Language: English
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    • A dream I wish to have in the night most often isn’t about dating a Hollywood star or making a great hit song. It’s not about my parents saying to me with tears, “We were wrong. We’re sorry”, either. It’s about numbers....

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