Short Fiction

*"Shiiku" ["Prize Stock"; also translated as "The Catch"] 1958

"Sebunchin" ["Seventeen"] (novella) 1961

"Chichi yo anata wa doko e ikuno ka?" ["Father, Where Are You Going?"] 1968

†Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness 1977

Atarashii hito yo mezameyo [O Rouse Up, Young Men of the New Age] 1983

"J" and "Seventeen" (novellas) 1995

*Originally translated as "The Catch" in Saeki Shoichi's antnology The Shadow of Sunrise, 1966.

†Contains translations of stories that were initially published over several years: "Prize Stock"; "Aghwee the Sky Monster" ("Sora no kaibutsu aguwee," 1964); "Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness" ("Warera no kyōki o ikiru michi o oshieyo," 1969); and "The Day He Himself Shall Wipe My Tears Away" ("Mizu kara waga namida o nuquitamoo hi," 1971).

Other Major Works

Memushiri kouchi [Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids] (novel) 1958

Warera no jidai [Our Age] (novel) 1959

Okurete kita seinen [The Youth Who Came Late] (novel) 1961

SakebigŌe [Outcries] (novel) 1962

Kojinteki na taiken [A Personal Matter] (novel) 1964

Hiroshima nōto [Hiroshima Notebook] (journal) 1965

Man'en gannen no futtobōru [The Silent Cry; also referred to as The Football Game of the First Year of Manen] (novel) 1967

Nichijo seikatsu no bōken [Adventures of Everyday Life] (novel) 1971

Kozui wa waga tamashii ni oyobi [The Waters Have Come in unto My Soul] (novel) 1973

Genshuku na tsunawatari [Solemnly Walking the Tightrope] (essays) 1974

Seinen no omei (novel) 1974

Pinchiranna chōsho [The Pinchrunner Memorandum] (novel) 1976

Dōjidai geemu [The Game of Contemporaneity; also translated as The CŌeval Game] (novel) 1979

The Crazy Iris, and Other Stories of the Atomic Aftermath [editor] (short stories) 1984

Natsukashii toshi e no tegami (novel) 1987