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Originally Posted by Maggie Leung
For fiction, in no particular order, I like Junnosuke Yoshiyuki, Seicho Matsumoto, Fumiko Enchi, Haruki Murakami, Junichiro Tanizaki, Yukio Mishima, Yoji Yamaguchi, Banana Yoshimoto, Ruth Ozeki, Kazuo Ishiguro.
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The above are good and I would add, Shusako Endo, Kobo Abe, Ryu Murukami, Osamu Dazai, Junichiro Tanizaki, Natsume Soseki ( who was on the 1000 yen note for a long time), Kenzaburo Oe (Nobel Prize winner),
As for me my favorites are Dazai, Abe Kobo and Endo Shuzako,
Endo Shusako's Silence and Abe's Woman in the Dunes are very famous novels and the latter was made into a very famous film in Japanese. Soseki is a bit of a God in Japanese literaure as well as Mishima.