Hideo Furukawa Author

Hideo Furukawa is a novelist based in Tokyo. He has received the Noma Literary New Face Prize, the Mystery Writers of Japan Award, the Japan SF Grand Prize, and the Yukio Mishima Award. He is also author of the novel Belka, Why Don't You Bark? (2012), translated into English by Michael Emmerich. Doug Slaymaker is professor of Japanese at the University of Kentucky. Akiko Takenaka is associate professor of Japanese history at the University of Kentucky.