Hideo Furukawa

Hideo Furukawa is one of the most highly regarded writers in Japan today. His novel Belka, Why Don’t You Bark? was translated by Michael Emmerich in 2012 (Haikasoru). His partly fictional reportage Horses, Horses, in the End Light Remains Pure, translated by Doug Slaymaker with Akiko Takenaka,is scheduled to be published on March 11, 2016, the fifth “anniversary” of the Great East Japan Earthquake, by Columbia University Press.


Articles by Hideo Furukawa

Tuesday March 15

UFO Meets the Great East Japan Earthquake

Hideo Furukawa blends fiction, memoir, and history to tell the story of a man’s journey back to his childhood home near Fukushima after the March 11, 2011, Japanese earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster.

Monday May 12

A Dispatch from the Monkey Planet

An outside had never existed before! Does that mean where I am now is inside? Another monkey started opening the boxes, and was amazed to find out that you cannot know what’s in a box until you open it.