Monkey TRAVEL, A Monkey’s Dozen

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Sea Horse
a story by Hiromi Kawakami
translated by Ted Goossen

A woman hears an announcement on the radio that war has broken out, relatives arrive at her house seeking refuge, when the war ends they leave, then a civil war breaks out
a story by Tomoka Shibasaki
translated by Polly Barton

The Overcoat
a graphic story by Satoshi Kitamura

Hell
a story by Kikuko Tsumura
translated by Polly Barton

Seeing
a poem by Mieko Kawakami
translated by Hitomi Yoshio

The Decline of the Aliens + Sheep After Sheep
from City of Ears by Hideo Furukawa
translated by Jordan A.Y. Smith

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Travel: A Monkey’s Dozen 

The Dugong
a chapter from Takaoka’s Travels by Tatsuhiko Shibusawa
translated by David Boyd

Jogging in Southern Europe
an essay by Haruki Murakami
translated by Ted Goossen

Whale Leg
a story by Laird Hunt

Kurozuka: A Noh Play
from the modern Japanese translation by Seikō Itō
translated and with an introduction by Jay Rubin

The Trail
a story by Eric McCormack

Five Modern Poets on Travel
selected and translated by Andrew Campana

Itō Goes on a Road Trip, Making a Pilgrimage to Yuda Hot Springs
a chapter from The Thorn Puller by Hiromi Itō
translated by Jeffrey Angles

Toad
a story by Barry Yourgrau

Every Reading, Every Sound, Every Sight
a travel essay by Jun’ichi Konuma
translated by Sam Bett

My First Trip
essays by Mikako Brady, Hirokazu Koreeda, Miwa Nishikawa, Yui Tanizaki, and Utamaru
translated by Morgan Giles

A Report on Travel
a story by Brian Evenson

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Along the Embankment
a story by Hiroko Oyamada
translated by David Boyd

From the Northern Sea
a story by Yasunari Kawabata
translated by Michael Emmerich

The Lake
a story by Kyōhei Sakaguchi
translated by Sam Malissa

Cardboard Boxes and Their Uses
a story by Taki Monma
translated by Ted Goossen

Flying Squirrels
an excerpt from a novella by Yūko Tsushima
translated by Rose Bundy

The Most Boring Red on Earth
a story by Aoko Matsuda
translated by Polly Barton

I can’t translate this!
Remarks from twelve translators
Jeffrey Angles on natsukashii
Polly Barton on obasan and ojisan
Sam Bett on midori
Michael K. Bourdaghs on everyday words
David Boyd on mi
Anna Elliott on haa
Michael Emmerich on homophonic names
Ted Goossen on fuyukai
Sam Malissa on mimetic words
Jay Rubin on kokoro
Ginny Tapley Takemori on irasshaimase
Hitomi Yoshio on sentence endings