The eight selected short stories by Jiro Akagawa, one of Japan's most prolific and best-known contemporary writers, offer entertaining reading and at the same time the opportunity to train your own reading skills in Japanese. The stories tell of often surprising events in modern Japanese everyday life in an authentic and exciting way.
The German translation serves a double purpose: on the one hand, you can read it before reading the Japanese texts in order to get to know the overall context in advance; On the other hand, you can simply use them as a "cheat sheet" if your own reading of the Japanese texts gets stuck. In addition, individual linguistically difficult passages and country-specific expressions are provided with additional explanations.

Source: Buske Verlag