Japanese Short Story Anthology

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    • Penguin Classics
    • By: Lafcadio Hearn
    • Narrated by: Eleanor Matsuura
    • Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 74 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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    • 20 Captivating Short Stories to Learn Japanese & Grow Your Vocabulary the Fun Way! (Easy Japanese Stories)
    • By: Lingo Mastery
    • Narrated by: Jason Sullivan, Rieah Masubuchi
    • Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 09-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 35 ratings
    • You may have found the best teacher in town or the most incredible learning app around, but if you don’t put all of that knowledge to practice, you’ll soon forget everything you’ve obtained....

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    • Grow Your Vocabulary the Fun Way!
    • By: Takumi Nonaka
    • Narrated by: Chikindesu
    • Length: 3 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 06-13-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • Are you currently learning the Japanese language and struggling to find some good material? Learning vocabulary through stories is a proven concept that has stood the test of time. This book has seven Japanese stories, each with an engaging storyline to help you understand the culture....

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    • By: Rebecca Otowa
    • Narrated by: Cindy Kay, David Shih
    • Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 02-23-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • 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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    • Read for Pleasure at Your Level, Expand Your Vocabulary and Learn Japanese the Fun Way!
    • By: Olly Richards
    • Narrated by: Sadao Ueda
    • Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 05-26-22
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Short Stories in Japanese for Intermediate Learners has been written especially for students from low-mid intermediate (ACTFL) level of Japanese....

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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: 05-25-21
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • 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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    • Stories
    • By: Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel - translator
    • Narrated by: Kotaro Watanabe
    • Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 04-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 370 ratings
    • From the internationally acclaimed Haruki Murakami comes a mind-bending new collection of short stories, all touching beautifully on love and solitude, childhood and memory...all with a signature Murakami twist....

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    • By: Hiro Arikawa, Philip Gabriel - translator
    • Narrated by: George Blagden
    • Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 10-10-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • Seven cats weave their way through their owners’ lives, climbing, comforting, nestling, and sometimes just tripping everyone up in this uplifting collection of tales by international bestselling author Hiro Arikawa....

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    • By: Hisaye Yamamoto
    • Narrated by: Allison Hiroto
    • Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 09-06-22
    • Language: English
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    • Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories brings together 15 stories that span Hisaye Yamamoto's 40-year career. It was her first book to be published in the United States....

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    • By: Megan Kamalei Kakimoto
    • Narrated by: Michelle Sekine
    • Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 08-29-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • From major new storytelling talent Megan Kamalei Kakimoto comes a blazing, bodily, raucous journey through contemporary Hawaiian identity and womanhood....

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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: 02-28-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • 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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    • And Other Stories
    • By: Yukio Mishima, Stephen Dodd - editor, John Nathan - introduction
    • Narrated by: Brian Nishii
    • Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 01-14-25
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • A new selection of Yukio Mishima (author of Spring Snow and The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea) short stories from the 1960s—his final decade—Voices of the Fallen Heroes offers a unique glimpse into the mind of one of Japan’s greatest writers.

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    • Stories
    • By: Izumi Suzuki
    • Narrated by: Cindy Kay
    • Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 04-20-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 37 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: 滝井 幸代
    • Narrated by: 藤沢 実穂
    • Length: 1 hr and 42 mins
    • Release date: 02-22-24
    • Language: Japanese
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
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