Support Program for Translation and Publication (2016 - 2017)

Asia and Oceania

Country/
Language
Title of the Book Recipient
(Publisher)
Author/
Translator
Type of Support
KOREA/
Korean
Japanese History that Sake Talks Lee Sang Media Tarō Wakamori/
Lee Se Yun
Translation and Publication
KOREA/
Korean
Scientific Prodigies in Japan - One and a Half Centuries from Samurai to Nobelists Bookie Publishing House Inc. Hideki Gotō/
Hur Tae Sung
Translation and Publication
KOREA/
Korean
Tomogui R.H. Korea Shinya Tanaka/
Hong Mi-hwa
Translation and Publication
KOREA/
Korean
The Sociology of the Marriage-Hunting Phenomenon Worin Masahiro Yamada/
Kim HyeonCheol
Translation and Publication
CHINA/
Chinese
The Forgotten Japanese Beijing October Literature & Arts Publishing House Tsuneichi Miyamoto/
Zheng Minqin
Translation and Publication
CHINA/
Chinese
The Eyes to Japanese Art China Financial & Economic Publishing House, Beijing Shūji Takashina/
Fan Zhongming
Translation and Publication
MONGOLIA/
Mongolian
Great short stories of the world /1st volume/'Japanese short stories' Monsudar Publishing LLC Ōgai Mori etc./
Ochirkhuu Jargalsaikhan
Translation and Publication
THAILAND/
Thai
Watashi tachi ni yurusare ta tokubetsu na jikan no owari Gamme Magie Editions Toshiki Okada/
Matana Jaturasangpairoj
Translation and Publication
VIETNAM/
Vietnamese
Job guidance for the 13-year-olds and all triers Dong A Cultural Joint Stock Company Ryū Murakami/
Nguyen Thanh Tam/
Nguyen Thi Ai Tien
Translation and Publication
VIETNAM/
Vietnamese
The Eternal Zero Alpha Books JSC Naoki Hyakuta/
Vo Vuong Ngoc Chan
Translation and Publication
VIETNAM/
Vietnamese
A Prayer Nine Years Ago Nha Nam Publishing and Communications JSC., Masatsugu Ōno/
Doung Thi Hoa
Translation and Publication
India/
Hindi
Main Dhundh Raha Hun/ Sagashite imasu EKLAVYA Arthur Binard/
Tomoko Kikuchi
Translation and Publication
India/
Bengali
Samudra Tate Kafka Part II/ Umibe no Kafuka Jadavpur University Press (Publications) Haruki Murakami/
Abhijit Mukherjee
Translation and Publication

 

The Americas

Country/
Language
Title of the Book Recipient
(Publisher)
Author/
Translator
Type of Support
U. S. A./
English
The Osamu Tezuka Story: A Life in Manga and Anime Stone Bridge Press, Inc. Toshio Ban, Tezuka Productions/
Frederik L. Schodt
Translation and Publication
U. S. A./
English
A Tokyo Anthology: Literature from Japan's Modern Metropolis, 1850-1920 University of Hawaii Press Anthony H. Chambers,Joel Cohn, Rebecca L. Copeland、Alan Cummings Publication
BRAZIL/
Portuguese
The Housekeeper and the Professor Editora Estação Liberdade (Estação Liberdade Publishing House) Yōko Ogawa/
Shintaro Hayashi
Translation and Publication
VENEZUELA/
Spanish
Seken Munezanyo [This Crafty World] BID & CO. EDITOR Saikaku Ihara/
Masateru Ito
Translation and Publication

 

Europe, Middle East and Africa

Country/
Language
Title of the Book Recipient
(Publisher)
Author/
Translator
Type of Support
ITALY/
Italian
Kangaroo Notebook Atmosphere libri (Atmosphere Books) Kōbō Abe/
Gianluca Coci
Translation and Publication
SWEDEN/
Swedish
Silence Atrium Förlag (Atrium Publishing House) Shūsaku Endō/
Eiko Duke, Yukiko Duke
Translation and Publication
SPAIN/
Spanish
Ten nights of dreams & Buncho Lapislàtzuli Editorial Sōseki Natsume/
Kō Tazawa
Translation and Publication
SPAIN/
Spanish
Taiheiki O Crónica de la Gran Pacificación (Taiheiki or Chronicle of Grand Pacification Editorial Trotta, S.A. (Trotta Publishing) Tadashi Hasegawa:Carlos Rubio López de la Llave Publication
SPAIN/
Spanish
Girls on the Other Shore Galaxia Gutenberg, S.L. Mitsuyo Kakuta/
Yōko Ogihara:Fernando Cordobés Gonzalez
Publication
NORWAY/
Norwegian
The elephant vanishes Pax Forlag (Pax Publishing House) Haruki Murakami/Magne Tørring Translation and Publication
FINLAND/
Finnish
Tekisetsuna sekai no tekisetsu narazaru watashi Aviador Kustannus (Aviador Publishing) Yumi Fuzuki/Mayu Saaritsa Translation and Publication
FRANCE/
French
Rikuzen Takata Light Motiv Naoya Hatakeyama/Corinne Quentin:Marc Feustel Translation and Publication
ALBANIA/
Albanian
Death by Water Shtëpia e Librit OMBRA GVG (OMBRA GVG Publishing House) Kenzaburo Ōe/
Bledar Kurti
Translation and Publication
UKRAINE/
Ukrainian
The restaurant of many orders Calvaria Publishing House Kenji Miyazawa/
Igor Dubinskyi
Translation and Publication
UKRAINE/
Ukrainian
THIRST FOR LOVE:Anthology of Japanese Women's Poetry IV-XX ct. Dmytro Burago Publishing House Anthology/
Bondarenko Ivan
Publication
GEORGIA/
Georgian
The Temple of Golden Pavilion Diogene Publishers Yukio Mishima/
David Goginashvili
Translation
CZECH REPUBLIC/
Czech
The Hell of Mirrors ARGO spol. s.r.o. Ranpō Edokawa/
Jan Levora
Translation and Publication
RUSSIA/
Russian
Happiness: Duty and Wisdom Hyperion Publishing House Kaibara Ekiken:Nishikawa Joken/Alexander Mesheryakov Translation and Publication
EGYPT/
Arabic
No Longer Human Salama Osamu Dazai/
Safaa Nour
Translation and Publication

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