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Title: A very good collection
Review: One reader seems to have been expecting old tales, even though the title says: "Modern Japanese Stories". Actually, I would warn some that this is a collection of 20th century writers, and only up to 1975. Some were born earlier, but their main out put was in the 20th century. So they are indeed, modern, but not recent.This said, it is an excellent collection of well chosen and well translated short stories. I had read novels by some of these authors, some I didn't know at all. It was all interesting, and I found several particularly good.To me, modern Japanese writers are just as worthy of interest as the ancient past of Japan.
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