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Can foreign authors succeed in Japan? Of course. But how? I'm joining bestselling award-winning author Robert Whiting ("Tokyo Underworld," "You Gotta Have Wa"), veteran KADOKAWA editors Satoshi Gunji (P.E.N. Japan) and Tetsuya Sugahara, and Japan UNI Agency president Miko Yamanouchi to explain.    If you're in Tokyo, please join us live at The Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan on Wednesday December 18th at 6pm JST. *Owing to demand, the event will now be live streamed via Zoom if you register here . Issues of the latest English and Japanese-language editions of "MONKEY: New Writing from Japan," the finest magazine of Japanese stories, poetry, essays and visual art will be on sale at the venue, thanks to our partners and pals at SWITCH .

 Japanese lit is lit! Happy December, friends! I hope you'll join me live THIS Tues Dec 3 6pm EST / Wed Dec 4 8am JST for a totally FREE online event to launch "Monkey New Writing from Japan" Vol: 5, the Creatures Issue! Register online in a New York minute here .  MONKEY is the only annual English-language magazine of excellent Japanese contemporary and classical writing, from short stories to poetry, haiku, tanka, manga and Noh--all brilliantly illustrated! I'll be joined by Akutagawa prize-winning author Tomoka Shibasaki (A Hundred Years and a Day), poet/translator Leo Elizabeth Takada (Perfect Days), and MONKEY co-founding editor and multiple award-winning translator Motoyuki Shibata. We're gratefully hosted by Japan Society of Boston and generously sponsored by The Yanai Foundation .  We'll have a bilingual reading with Shibasaki, a chat about literary translation and a poetry reading with Takada, and the sheer brilliance and wisdom of Shibata. Our show t...