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Dokusha in Japanese means a reader. We're a community of dokushas, or readers, interested in Japanese literature, art, cinema, food, basically everything Japanese.
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If there’s one thing Mieko Kawakami is good at conjuring, it is a particular kind of unease. Not the obviously dramatic, door-slamming kind, but the quieter sort that settles into a room and simply refuses to leave. Sisters in Yellow, her first full plunge into noir, carries that unease from its opening page to its last, even when very little appears to be happening on the surface.The novel opens with Hana, now in her forties, stumbling upon a news report about a woman she once lived with and ha
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