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.
Hideo Furukawa
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.
Friday April 18
Amitābha Increases Exponentially
At this point I am hit by a shocking revelation—a precise and probably objective perception of my own self. Of this presence called I. Thing of this earth. And also of this kindred semblance modeled after me, after us.