Jayne Joso's new book is a collection of stories and short fiction set in Japan. Each is centred on a particular character—a sinister museum curator, a son caring for his dementia-struck father, a widow in the far north reflecting on her provincial life, a bookseller—and tells a compelling story about them. Together these short narratives become a mosaic of a life in contemporary Japan, its people, its society, its thinking, its character. With the focus of the world on the Tokyo Olympics, Japan Stories provides a window into a country of which we know less than we think.

'A beautifully written patchwork of stories of contemporary Japan' - Diverse Japan
'T[he stories] are written in pellucidly clear prose and wrought like pieces of fine porcelain, unfussy in their language and measured in their telling to the point of being, well, serene.' - Nation.Cymru