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The last story takes place after WW11, but it was not published in 1947. I misread that. The author was born in 1947, though it wouldn't surprise me at all if the story is set in that year.

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The last story, Love Suicide at Kamaara by Sueko Yoshida, was published in 1947 and is a bit racy. I was a little worried the Japanese people around me at the coffee shop would judge me lol!

I liked "Where the Bowling Pins Stand" by Shinji Ishii. It begins stronger than it ends, but the interactions between the taxi drivers and the setting is sharp and interesting.

It is not often that my main reaction to a story is that it was strange, but The Maiden in the Manger by Abe Kazushige hit me that way. Kinda cringe too.

I finished Mogera Wogura by Hiromi Kawakami. The ending was disappointing, but it did not stop the story from being good.

It did not take long for this story to mostly not resemble the other Hiromi Kawakami story I was thinking of!

The story I'm currently reading is by Hiromi Kawakami. It reminds me of another story I read in another anthology, and I just realized that Hiromi Kawakami wrote that one too! The similarity isn't ruining the experience for me so far.

I didn't see where The Silent Traders was going until the end. The narrator and her children see some abandoned cats in the park. That connects to a few other idea/images. The narrator might feel a tad sorry for herself, and that might be understandable. I'm undecided.