Hotaru ni naxtu ta ano hi
Native title: ホタルになったあの日
Translated title: The Day I Became a Firefly
Author: Tomukai, Ryosuke
Genre: Mystery / Family Saga
Year: 2024 | Pages: 105 | Origin: JAP | ISBN: 9798320334455
'I have dreams, I have things I want to do. But they can't come true now. So...'
The story begins one evening. A young man is walking through a nearby park after dinner.
A fortune teller suddenly appears in the park and predicts how much time he has left to live.
The young man is skeptical and refuses to listen, but as he goes about his daily life, he encounters countless events that make him wonder if he really is going to die.
What kind of mark will the young man, who has come to terms with his own death, leave behind in his final moments?
Sakin ha ki e ta!
Native title: 砂金は消えた！（下）
Translated title: The Gold Dust is Gone!
Series: Part 2
Author: Tuda, Mikio
Genre: Social Novel
Year: 2024 | Pages: 186 | Origin: JAP | ISBN: 9784867186138
The impact that a chance encounter can have on a person's destiny is immeasurable. This suspenseful story of misfortune is born from a chain of encounters!
The protagonist, Amano, refuses to take over the family warehouse business and sets off on a backpacking trip. He ends up in Burkina Faso, Africa, one of the poorest countries in the world. In recent years, gold deposits have been discovered, creating a gold panning boom.
Amano witnesses the tragic reality of children working deep in the mine shafts in search of food. Believing it his mission to support these children, he establishes a gold dust import company in Japan. However, the gold dust import business, which is run by mysterious people, is not as easy as he thought.
Will Amano be able to successfully launch his gold dust import business and fulfill his mission? This is a suspenseful business suspense story filled with money and intrigue
Sakin ha ki e ta!
Native title: 砂金は消えた！（上）
Translated title: The Gold Dust is Gone!
Series: Part 1
Author: Tuda, Mikio
Genre: Social Novel
Year: 2024 | Pages: 184 | Origin: JAP | ISBN: 9784867186121
The impact that a chance encounter can have on a person's destiny is immeasurable. This suspenseful story of misfortune is born from a chain of encounters!
The protagonist, Amano, refuses to take over the family warehouse business and sets off on a backpacking trip. He ends up in Burkina Faso, Africa, one of the poorest countries in the world. In recent years, gold deposits have been discovered, creating a gold panning boom.
Amano witnesses the tragic reality of children working deep in the mine shafts in search of food. Believing it his mission to support these children, he establishes a gold dust import company in Japan. However, the gold dust import business, which is run by mysterious people, is not as easy as he thought.
Will Amano be able to successfully launch his gold dust import business and fulfill his mission? This is a suspenseful business suspense story filled with money and intrigue
Saiken no kamisama
Native title: 再建の神様
Translated title: The God of Reconstruction
Author: Tsuyoshi, Egami
Genre: Social Novel
Year: 2024 | Pages: 400 | Origin: JAP | ISBN: 9784569903798
Respecting Hayakawa Tanezo, known as the 'god of reconstruction', and striving to work for the good of society and people, Haruki Taneo, a young local banker, aspires to work for the good of people, but an incident causes him to question his job as a banker.
Fleeing, he boards the Tohoku Shinkansen and happens to meet Shibusawa Eiji, a man claiming to be a reconstruction contractor, and the two head to Aizu together. Haruki ends up rebuilding a hot spring inn that was on the verge of bankruptcy, but problems continue...
A masterpiece business novel by a former banker, depicting the revitalization of people and companies
Dentuu man boroboro nikki
Native title: 電通マンぼろぼろ日記
Translated title: Dentsu Man's Tattered Diary
Author: Hukunaga, Koutarou
Genre: Social Novel / Short Stories
Year: 2024 | Pages: 208 | Origin: JAP | ISBN: 9784866809359
The latest volume in the bestselling diary series! Once again, all true stories are vividly told.
A record of anger, sorrow, and laughter from the author, who has worked hard on the front lines of an advertising agency for 30 years.
Golf, restaurants, and XXX entertainment, clients are gods
Hakusen Igai, Fundara Out
Native title: 白線以外、踏んだらアウト
Translated title: If You Step on Anything Other Than the White Line, You're Out
Author: Tamaru, Masatomo
Genre: Short Stories / Mystery
Year: 2024 | Pages: 228 | Origin: JAP | ISBN: 9784334102609
'If you step off the white line on the road, you will die', 'If you write the character 'person' three times on the palm of your hand and drink it, you will be relieved of tension', 'If you drop your food, it will be fine as long as you pick it up within three seconds', 'Ouch, ouch, go away', and other situations that everyone has probably heard somewhere are boldly arranged by modern short story master Masatomo Tamaru! The stories go from familiar settings to unexpected endings. A total of 10 fascinating short stories that will take you to a mysterious world in just 10 minutes per episode!
Horo yuki no yoru
Native title: 放浪・雪の夜
Translated title: Wanderings: Snowy Nights
Author: Oda, Sakunosuke
Genre: Short Stories
Year: 2024 | Pages: 320 | Origin: JAP | ISBN: 9784101037035
Oda Sakunosuke, author of 'Fufu Zenzai' and known as a close friend of Dazai Osamu and Sakaguchi Ango, is known for his rich narrative.
The appeal of his works lies in their rich narratives. 'Wandering' depicts the wandering journey of chef Junpei. 'Snowy Night' tells the story of a man and woman who flee to Beppu.
'Zokushu,' a work nominated for the Akutagawa Prize, tells the story of a man with excellent business acumen who rebuilds his family home. 'Hotaru' tells the story of Teradaya Otose, beloved by Ryoma.
This collection includes 11 stories carefully selected by researchers of Oda's literature. Full of ups and downs, yet filled with human feelings. Here you will find the one and only author born in Osaka
City Pop Tampen Shu
Native title: シティポップ短篇集
Translated title: City Pop Short Story Collection
Author: Kataoka, Yosio
Genre: Short Stories
Year: 2024 | Pages: 328 | Origin: JAP | ISBN: 9784803804300
The 80's, when city pop was born. What was Japanese 'literature' doing in the same period? Behind the pop music revived by fans on social networking sites around the world lies the world of urban literature, which was born out of the same historical circumstances and developed in a similarly original Japanese way. It was a literature based on real urban life, but idealized behind a veil of fiction, fictionalizing the 'city' and 'nowhere' in the writers' dreams. The '9 Stories' in this book are forgotten Japanese urban novels that ran parallel to the City Pop Era. A gentle wind is still blowing there today
Imi ga wakaru to zoku zoku suru tyou tanpen syousetu
Native title: 意味がわかるとゾクゾクする超短編小説
Translated title: A Thrilling Short Story of 54 Characters
Series: Volume 12
Author: Uzita, Yuusuke
Genre: Short Stories
Year: 2024 | Pages: 208 | Origin: JAP | ISBN: 9784569881683
This 12th volume of the popular series, which has sold over 800,000 copies, features 88 stories themed around the events and seasons of the 12 months. Enjoy this dazzling world of ultra-short stories that unfolds like the turning of a calendar page
Kyoto Gion Momokichian's Amakara Cho
Native title: 京都祇園もも吉庵のあまから帖８
Translated title: Amakaracho from Momokichian in Gion, Kyoto
Series: Volume 8
Author: Siganai, Sasuhiro
Genre: Family Saga / Social Novel
Year: 2024 | Pages: 320 | Origin: JAP | ISBN: 9784569903682
Gion, Kyoto. At the end of Hanamikoji Street is Momokichi-an, a sweet shop.
Momokichi, the proprietress and former geisha who runs the shop, is visited by people with all sorts of troubles.
The hardships of a family who begs the taxi driver Mitsuko to 'follow the taxi in front', the reformation of a bank loan officer who learns how to 'read people' from the way they eat tea and sweets, and the quick thinking of a female secretary who changes the atmosphere of a contentious meeting...
This is a heartwarming story in which Momokichi's words gently comfort the people who gather in Gion, experiencing both joy and sorrow.
This is the 8th volume of the popular series
Jiyutsu
Native title: 自由慄
Author: Pear
Genre: Horror
Year: 2024 | Pages: 336 | Origin: JAP | ISBN: 9784778319052
Horror
Gokuraku ni ita ru imimon
Native title: 極楽に至る忌門
Translated title: The Gate to Paradise
Author: Park, Ashika
Genre: Horror
Year: 2024 | Pages: 340 | Origin: JAP | ISBN: 9784041143254
Deep in the mountains of Shikoku, a small village is home to a strange, cherished Buddhist statue. Hayato, who travels from Tokyo to accompany his friend Takumi on a visit home, feels uneasy about the cold demeanor of the villagers.
Takumi's grandmother warmly welcomes them, and during a pleasant dinner featuring a heartfelt meal, Takumi's face changes color the moment he hears her say, 'I've brought the Buddha closer.' That night, Takumi disappears, and Hayato finds himself embroiled in a series of strange events.
A woman who left the village for a job in Tokyo and returned after the death of a relative discovers a terrifying truth. A boy visiting his grandfather's house during summer vacation encounters a terrifying supernatural phenomenon.
Through a series of novellas spanning three eras - the Showa, Heisei, and Reiwa eras - the terrifying fate of the land and the true nature of the unexpected supernatural events, which even the most powerful oracle, Mononobe Narikiyo, was unable to stop, are revealed. This is a newly written work commemorating the 30th anniversary of the Horror Bunko series
Su mise go no nie
Native title: すみせごの贄
Translated title: The Sumisego Sacrifice
Author: Sawamura, Ichi
Genre: Horror
Year: 2024 | Pages: 304 | Origin: JAP | ISBN: 9784041138632
Shoki: Shota, a second-year junior high school student who has stopped going to school due to bullying, accompanies Kon Nozaki, a colleague of his father's, on a research assignment in Shiga Prefecture. There's a local custom of placing a statue of Shoki on the gatepost, and this unique four-armed figure is called 'Tanaware Shoki.' While researching, Shota witnesses an eerie shadow, and that night, he is attacked by a silent figure. Is there something here?
Mattingu
Native title: マッチング
Translated title: Matching
Author: Eiji, Uchida
Genre: Thriller / Mystery
Year: 2024 | Pages: 288 | Origin: JAP | ISBN: 9784041145029
While Wanka is fulfilled by her work as a wedding planner, she is shy when it comes to romance, so at the urging of a colleague, she reluctantly signs up for a dating app. From that day on, her life changes completely. When she matches with Tomu and meets up, the man who shows up is a gloomy man, completely different from his profile. Terrified, Wanka seeks help from Kageyama, a programmer at the company that runs the dating app and a business partner.
At the same time, a series of tragic incidents occur in which couples who have 'married through an app' are brutally murdered. The 'true faces' of the people surrounding Wanka are revealed one after another, and the evil hand of the incidents closes in on Wanka. Who is her friend, and who is her enemy? A new type of suspense thriller that depicts the fear hidden in encounters!
Hoshi o amu
Native title: 星を編む
Author: Nagiryou, Yuu
Genre: Romance
Year: 2023 | Pages: 288 | Origin: JAP | ISBN: 9784065327869
Romance
