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Japanese Books & Criticism
Compiled and updated by Takako Takamoto, Associate Professor
National University of Fisheries (Japan)

Editions

Enduring Love -- Japanese EditionBeddo no naka de (In Between the Sheets, trans. by Yoshiyuki Fujikawa and Mitsuya Kato). Tokyo: Shuei-sha, 1983 -- hardcover).

Inosento (The Innocent, trans. by Takao Miyawaki). Tokyo: Hayakawa Novels, 1992 (251p., ISBN: 415207762X -hardcover); Tokyo: Hayakawa Bunko NV(722), 1994 (377p., ISBN: 4150407223 -- softcover).

Ihoojin-tachi no Nagusame (The Comfort of Strangers, trans. by Takao Miyawaki). Tokyo: Hayakawa Novels, 1994 (166p., ISBN: 4152078375 -- hardcover).

Jikan no naka no Kodomo (The Child in Time, trans. by Yasushi Mano). Tokyo: Chuo-koron-shinsha, 1995 (314p., ISBN: 4120024784 -- (hardcover).

Saisho no Koi Saigo no Gishiki (First Love, Last Rites, trans. by Takao Miyawaki). Tokyo: Hayakawa Novels, 1999 (246p., ISBN: 4152081511 -- hardcover).

Amusuterudamu (Amsterdam, trans. by Taichi Koyama). Tokyo: Shincho Crest Books, 1999 (198p., ISBN: 4105900099 -- softcover).

Semento Gaaden (The Cement Garden, trans. by Takao Miyawaki). Tokyo: Hayakawa Novels, 2000 (183p., ISBN: 4152082674 -- hardcover).

Amsterdam -- Japanese EditionKuroi Inu (Black Dogs, trans. by Takao Miyawaki). Tokyo: Hayakawa Novels, 2000 (238p., ISBN: 4152082909 -- hardcover).

Ai no Tsuzuki (Enduring Love, trans. by Taichi Koyama). Tokyo: Shincho Crest Books, 2000 (316p., ISBN: 4105900218 -- softcover).

Yumemiru Piitaa no Nanatsu no Boken (The Daydreamer, trans. by Yasushi Mano). Tokyo: Chuo- koron-sha, 2001 (216p., ISBN: 4120032000 -- hardcover).

Shokuzai (Atonement, trans. by Taichi Koyama). Tokyo: Shincho-sha, 2003 (446p., ISBN: 4105431013 - hardcover).


Reviews, Interviews, and Criticism

1984

Tezuka, Kyosuke. 'Summer, Breeze, Smells, Death -- On Ian McEwan', Thought Currents in English Literature, 57, 1984: 43-56. (Japanese)

1993

Ohgi, Reiko. 'A Sick Brave New World: Ian McEwan's "Conversation with a Cupboard Man" ', The Toyo Review, 25, 1993: 25-37. (Japanese)

1996

Yata, Keiji. 'The Dead Speak: Aspects of Narrative Technique in Ian McEwan's The Innocent', Bulletin of Tokyo Kasei University, 36(1), 1996: 43-48. (English)

Japanese Atonement1997

Takeoka, Chiyo. 'An Essay on Ian McEwan's The Comfort of Strangers -- Desire of the Other Signified by Patriarchy', Kogakuin University Bulletin -- General Education, 35(2), 1997: 87-97. (Japanese)

1998

Kurosu, Kishiko. 'The Child in Time by Ian McEwan --Time in Consciousness', Journal of Saitama Junior College, 7, 1998: 73-80. (Japanese)

Kurosu, Kishiko. 'The Meaning of "Daydream" in The Daydreamer', Eibei Bungaku Hyoron, Spring 1998: 4-8.

1999

Muto, Tetsuro. 'The Lack of Moral Dilemma in McEwan's Amsterdam', Otsuma Review, 32, 1999. (Japanese)

Takeoka, Chiyo. 'Ian McEwan no Yumemiru Shonen ni Itaru Katei'. 1999 nendai no Igirisu Shosetsu. Ed. 20 seiki Eibungaku Kenkyuukai (Tokyo: Kinseido, 1999), 76-93. (Japanese)

2000

Ujiie, Rie. '(De)composing The Millennial Symphony: The Rise and Fall of Man/Men in Amsterdam', The Journal of Seigakuin University, 12(2), 2000: 53-64. (Japanese)

2001

Cull, Ian V. 'The Pathological Extension of Love in Ian McEwan's Enduring Love', Niigata Studies in Foreign Languages and Cultures, 7, 2001: 1-19. (English)

Matsumiya, Sonoko. 'The World of Fading Borders: Ubiquitous Evil in Ian McEwan's Black Dogs", Studies in Western Literature, 21, 2001: 1-19. (Japanese)

The Daydreamer -- Japanese Edition2002

Ohgi, Reiko. 'A Study on Ian McEwan's Enduring Love -- As a Never Ending Story', Bulletin of Toyo Gakuen University, 10, 2002: 75-83. (Japanese)

Takamoto, Takako. 'Enduring Love: Soutaika-sareta "Monogatari" ' ('Enduring Love: Relativised "Stories" '), Kyushu Eibungaku Kenkyu, 19, 2002: 55-68.

Takeoka, Chiyo. 'Analysis of Ian McEwan's "Solid Geometry" as Narrative Discourse -- On Postmodern Indeterminacy', Kogakuin University Bulletin -- General Education, 40(1), 2002: 85-94. (Japanese)

2003

Muto, Tetsuro. 'Morality in McEwan's Novels: From First Love, Last Rites to Atonement', Otsuma Women's University Annual Report -- Humanities and Social Sciences, 35, 2003: 1-10. (Japanese)

Takamoto, Takako. 'The Child in Time ni okeru Futatsu no Jikan' ('Two Kinds of "Time" in The Child in Time'), New Perspective (Shin Eibei Bungaku Kenkyuu), 177, 2003: 45-57.

2004

Oka, Noriko. 'Ian McEwan no Enduring Love ni okeru "Ten'i" to "Hanpuku"', English Literature Review (Kyoto Joshi Daigaku Eibungaku Ronsoo), 48, 2004: 1-14. (Japanese)

2005

Koyama, Taichi. 'Ian McEwan ni okeru Comic no Yooso', Eigo Seinen, 150(12), 2005: 22-25. (Japanese)

Takamoto, Takako. 'Love Story no Fukken ni mukete--Shokuzai ni okeru Monogatari to Dootoku'. Eibungaku to Dootoku. Edited by Sonoi Eishu (Fukuoka: Kyushu UP, 2005), 249-266. (Japanese)

Yata, Keiji. 'Showing Off Damaged Bodies: Ian McEwan's Atonement', Bulletin of Tokyo Kasei University, 45:1, 2005: 49-58. (English)

Muto, Tetsuro. 'A Contrast Between the Two Labourers and Mrs Thatcher in Ian McEwan's The Child in Time', Otsuma Women's University Annual Report -- Humanities and Social Sciences, 37, 2005: 436-424. (Japanese)

Takamoto, Takako. 'The Innocent ni okeru innocence no imi' ('The Import of innocence in The Innocent'). Booker Reader--Gendai Eikoku·Eirenpo shoosetsu o Yomu. Edited by Yoshida Tetsuo (Tokyo: Kaibunsha Shuppan, 2005), 249-268. (Japanese)

2006

Muto, Tetsuro. 'A Day of a Neurosurgeon: Ian McEwan's Hyper-real Novel Saturday', Otsuma Women's University Annual Report -- Humanities and Social Sciences, 38, 2006: 318-309. (Japanese)

Takamoto, Takako. 'Ian McEwan's Moral Vision in Saturday', Journal of National Fisheries University, 54(3), 2006: 83-91 (Japanese) [Available in .pdf].

Oka, Noriko. 'Focalization and Other Minds in Ian McEwan's Atonement"', English and American Studies (Journal of the Graduate School--Kyoto Women's University), 5, 2006: 15-32. (Japanese).

2007

Muto, Tetsuro. 'Evil Remains Alive: Ian McEwan's Black Dogs', Otsuma Women's University Annual Report: Humanities and Social Sciences, 39, 2007: 194-184. (Japanese).

Oka, Noriko. 'The Divided self: the double in Ian McEwan's Enduring Love', English and American Studies (Journal of the Graduate School -- Kyoto Women's University), 6, 2007: 31-49. (Japanese).

2008

Koyama, Taichi. 'Ishiki-ni-kirikomu Shujutsu-too.' (Scalpel Incising into Consciousness) Nami 457 , January 2008: 2-5 [Interview].


Special thanks to Takako Takamoto, Associate Professor at the National University of Fisheries (Japan) for the information used to develop this page.

  
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