M. W. Larson is an author, editor, and assistant professor at the University of Tsukuba near Tokyo. A former Fulbright scholar, his book about the Great Tōhoku Earthquake and Tsunami, When the Waves Came,&nbsp;is available from Chin Music Press.

M. W. Larson

The Dialectics of March 11: A Decade After the Japan Tsunami

"For a long time now I haven't been I."
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

Around the World

The Nakano Thrift Shop

The Anxiety of Intimacy in Hiromi Kawakami’s “The Nakano Thrift Shop”

"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain

Fiction

Record of a Night Too Brief

The Folkloric and the Fantastic: Hiromi Kawakami’s “Record of a Night Too Brief”

The Sad March of the Japanese Left

"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." — Molly Ivins

Politics

M. W. Larson is an author, editor, and assistant professor at the University of Tsukuba near Tokyo. A former Fulbright scholar, his book about the Great Tōhoku Earthquake and Tsunami, When the Waves Came,&nbsp;is available from Chin Music Press.