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Why We Work, Why We Don't Work, Why We Can't Work
Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2025
What exactly is "work," and what is it for? What worries and confusions beset young people who step into "society" groping their way forward in anxiet…
A Perfect Day for a Sunny Day
Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2007
Twenty-year-old Tomoko Mitsuda is a freeter—a young person who avoids full-time employment and lives on part-time work. She leaves her hometown for To…
A Good Weather for One
Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2007
Twenty-year-old Chise Mita grew up in a single-parent household. After graduating from high school she did not pursue higher education, nor was she wi…
Looking for a Cat Before Dawn
Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2017
Longlisted for the Japanese Literature Prize, Finding a Cat Before Dawn is a bittersweet coming-of-age novel steeped in humor and resignation. Twenty-…