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Alison Fincher

Aum Anxiety in Japanese Fiction

June 25, 2026 11:00am 59 min

In this episode, we examine the history of the Aum Affair and its lasting impact on Japanese fiction.We'll start out with the history of new religions in Japan, including Aum Shinrikyo. We'll take a look at Haruki Muraka...

Yasunari Kawabata

May 11, 2026 11:00am 57 min

In this episode, we're taking a look at Yasunari Kawabata's life and work.As we tell his story, we'll ask ourselves two big questions. Is Kawabata really a traditionalist? And what is up with the way he writes about adol...

Japanese Monster Stories on the Big Screen

February 10, 2026 3:00pm 1:03

In this episode, we look at the writers behind two of Japan's greatest movie monsters—Godzilla and Mothra.We'll start out by looking at Godzilla—its context, author, and story—before we turn to Mothra. We'll close with a...

The Japanese Cell Phone Novel

December 14, 2025 10:00am 48 min

In this episode, we take a look at the Japanese cell phone novel and the classic story of Train Man.We’re going to start today by explaining the Japanese cell phone novel, including some relevant background like the hist...

Lafcadio Hearn—The Master of the Japanese Ghost Story

October 29, 2025 10:00am 54 min

In this episode, we explore the enduring legacy of Greek/English/Irish/American/Japanese author Lafcadio Hearn and the ghost story The Peony Lantern.We'll start out by looking at Hearn's life. We'll discuss the long hist...

Bullying in Japanese Literature

September 20, 2025 4:00pm 57 min

In this episode, we look at bullying in Japanese literature.We'll start out by defining bullying and looking at bullying in Japanese schools as well as the Japanese workplace. We'll see some examples in Japanese novels. ...

Christianity in Japanese Literature

June 04, 2025 10:00pm 1:01

In this episode, we look into the history of Christianity in Japan—especially the role Christianity has played in Japanese literature. Our focus text is Shusaku Endo's Silence.Notes and sources on the episode page.  Tran...

Japanese Writers Standing Up to the State

March 18, 2025 9:00am 1:03

In this episode, we take a look at the Japanese proletarian writers’ movement of the 1920s and early 1930s. We also take a deep dive into the life of author Genzaburo Yoshino—not a proletarian writer, but a man who spent...

Keiichiro Hirano

February 05, 2025 5:00pm 52 min

For the first time ever, RJL brings you information from an interview with a Japanese author—Akutagawa-winner Keiichiro Hirano. This episode takes up his life and work, the influence of Yukio Mishima on his fiction, and ...

Christmas in Japanese Literature

December 13, 2024 9:00pm 52 min

Happy holidays! And, in the interest of today’s episode, merri kurisumasu!Today we’re going to start with the origins of Christmas, especially why Christmas is celebrated in Japan at all. We’ll move on to how Christmas i...

LGBTQ+ Stories from Japan, Part 2

December 01, 2024 8:00am 57 min

RJL is excited to bring you this two-parter about LGBTQ+ stories from Japan. Part two covers Taisho Japan (when women finally enter the stage) through through contemporary LGBTQ+ writing, especially the life and work of ...

LGBTQ+ Stories from Japan, Part 1

October 30, 2024 5:00pm 54 min

RJL is excited to bring you this two-parter about LGBTQ+ stories from Japan. Part one covers some of the earliest writing in Japanese through the end of the Meiji Period in 1912.Part two (coming soon) covers Taisho Japan...

Japanese Crime and Mystery Writing

September 13, 2024 9:00am 53 min

Today, we’re talking about crime and mystery novels from Japan. We’ll start with the development of the crime and mystery genre in the English-speaking world. We’ll move on to Japanese crime and mystery writing—how it wa...

Atomic Bomb Literature

August 17, 2024 5:00pm 59 min

This episode is marked mature.In this episode, we take a look at Japanese writing about the American bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that killed as many as 215,000 people in August 1945. We’ll start with the history o...

Zainichi Literature—Koreans Writing in Japan

June 03, 2024 10:00am 55 min

In this episode, we take a look at the history of Koreans writing in Japan. We’ll start with the history of Koreans in Japan, including anti-Korean prejudice before and after WWII. We’ll move on to Zainichi Korean writin...

The End of the World! Japanese Apocalypse, Part 3

April 29, 2024 6:00am 56 min

In part three of this episode, we’ll finish our story of Japanese apocalyptic and dystopian fiction. First, stories from the mid-90s and 20-aughts. Then, stories from after the March 2011 Triple Disasters. We’ll end with...

The End of the World! Japanese Apocalypse, Part 2

April 15, 2024 11:00am 50 min

In part two of this three part episode, we're looking at the apocalyptic and dystopian fiction of Japan. We'll begin with the evolution of the idea of "the end of the world" in Japan, especially after Japan started impor...

The End of the World! Japanese Apocalypse, Part 1

April 01, 2024 9:00am 40 min

In part one of this three part episode, we're looking at apocalyptic and dystopian fiction as genres. Their origins in Western and Central Asia. Their evolution in Western Europe. And a history of English-language apocal...

Misogyny and Yukio Mishima, Part 2

February 22, 2024 7:00pm 39 min

In part two of this two-part episode on misogyny in Japanese literature, we're talking about the life and work of Yukio Mishima, especially by way of his I-Novel, Confessions of a Mask.Check out part one for400 years of ...

Misogyny and Yukio Mishima, Part 1

February 16, 2024 10:00am 46 min

In part one of this two-part episode, we're talking about misogyny in Japanese literature. 400 years of attitudes about women in JapanWoman in modern Japanese literature, especially in the work of some of its most import...

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