hello!! i’m looking for books that are mainly in japan or created by japanese authors. i read almost all of natsuo kirino books, and i’m looking for more authors that are japanese or books that take place in japan?
any genre is fine, and i’m fine with anything!
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Eiji Yoshikawa has a few books set in feudal Japan. Musashi and Taiko are his most popular.
[Breasts and Eggs](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50736031) by Mieko Kawakami
If you’re up for an autobiography, you might take a look at the diary of Yukichi Fukuzawa. He was not a famous person per se, but he was in the middle of extraordinary changes Japan went through in the latter half of the 1800s. It gives a good sense of what Japan was like at that time.
If you want some WW2 from the Japanese perspective, take a look at Hiroshima by John Hersey. The author interviewed survivors of the atomic bomb, and much of it reads as narrative.
Devotion of Suspect X
Kawabata’s *Snow Country*.
Just about anything by Mishima.
Abe’s *Woman in the Dunes*.